local_library Poetry
Me and Chrysty
by DS Maolalai
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
Poem for Beth
by Jay Dubberly
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
Come Closer Horsefly
by Nana Liu
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
One Lover Asked
by Kiran Bhat
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
The President Asks
by Kiran Bhat
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
Wonder
by Julie Daniels
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
when one is too much & not enough
by Estelle
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
book Book Lovers
Book Review: Red List Blue by Lizzy Fox
reviewed by Samantha Kolber
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
Lizzy Fox’s debut Red List Blue is a book of thoughtful and passionate poetry with just the right amount of neurosis (which is how I like my poetry). Fox’s poems are like quiet meteors—because a meteor is a rock and also a streak of light, …
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The End of the Beginning
by Jenna Heller
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
It was new ice. Solid at the edges. Thin in the middle. Nicholas slid around the perimeter in his snow boots. Venturing in a little bit and in a little more. It’s fine, he called out. Then hurried back to put his skates on, tightening …
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Tequila Rhymes or How to Write a Poem
by Caitlin Upshall
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
The act of writing a spoken word poem is like reading a recipe for a cocktail. The first time you do it, you will follow the directions exactly. – When it calls for an engaging title, you will spend hours writing and erasing ideas. When …
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Enabler
by Rachel Remick
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
I immediately set the flute of champagne my boss handed me on the top shelf of the computer station. “I don’t drink,” I said, completing the sentence in my mind, especially on the job. “That’s okay.” Archway swished the liquid in her own glass, …
Two
by James Bird
Issue No. 286 ~ March, 2021
October 22, 2054 Madeleine, It’s my birthday. Twenty years of simulated autumns in this place. Twenty simulated years. I once loved this season. I was born into it. But here, when the green of the leaves is unconvincingly transmuted into gold, it is a …