Marigny, New Orleans… Me and my professor friend walk along Mardi Gras colored houses, a bootlegger Could fire a shot through and it takes You back, when Stevedores unloaded ships That carried cargo from around the world But robots could easily replace them, just as a.i. could rewrite this poem in multiple Languages, but […]
Read more "Erren Kelly ~ Marigny, New Orleans…"Brave Glares in the Midnight Air Life takes guts. So does taking yourself out. I ain’t got that mettle. Built for the rut, And I got scores to settle. ~~~ Notes of Harmonica Played on the Spirit Chaos is just another term for life. The music of our existence. The tempo of our madness. We play the groove of […]
Read more "5 poems by Nicholas Viglietti "MY DOG So many people with dogs in the park today, it makes me wonder what kind of dog I would have if I had a dog. I never had a dog. When I was five, I was chased by a dog. I think it was a bull terrier. It looked like the dog on […]
Read more "5 POEMS BY Joel Solonche"BECAUSE WE DON’T WALK ON RED ANYMORE A small skunk is dead in the intersection of the busy road, intestines swirled in a tiny pile, a slash of vermilion stabbing through its stripes fluttering in the spring breeze cars from one direction zooming over and past. I couldn’t begin our walk, watching car after car […]
Read more "5 POEMS By Carol Coven Grannick"Soldiering through an internal war Helpless in a hospital, While laid out like a cadaver, My thoughts are mercurial. Petitioning for health is my endeavor. Although zeroed on my pain, I look at the TV news, Feeling levels of disdain And guilt for writing the blues. Some people in war-torn lands remain strong. Undaunted, they’re […]
Read more "Soldiering through an internal war ~ Bob McNeil"Wherever You Are, Look Wherever you are, look out the window (please let there be a window)— at the sky, at something green if you can find it; This world can’t exist just to grind us down, I refuse to believe it. And if I’m wrong, at least let me be ground down not by […]
Read more "Anneliese Finke ~ Wherever You Are, Look"Sisyphus, Further Upstate Nothing new, nothing you haven’t discovered yet, only America, only I will make you sing it louder, will make you scream it, scream AMERICA!! like it’s the answer to a question you can’t imagine, like you’re hanging from a rope of used needles, hanging from a rope of spent time, and it’s […]
Read more "JOHN SWEET ~ Sisyphus, Further Upstate"4th Annual Karen Trujillo Poetry Contest, the winning poems, 2025 Best 9th Grade Poem “Empty Threads” by Arturo Luna EMPTY THREADS But even peace feels so distantWhen I replay the words that tore us apart.The house is quiet, but I feel it,Like the walls are pressing in, but it echoesHeavy with the weight in my […]
Read more "WINNING POEMS FROM 4th ANNUAL KAREN TRUJILLO POETRY CONTEST for high school poets in Las Cruces, NM 2025"Rooting for Someone Else’s Roots White plastic bags from Salvation Army drift down El Paso’s Durango Street. What’s inside? A water bottle in a barbed collar? A bar of granola no control over the gambol of its boundaries? A package of dried fruitage no say in its reconstitution? Does refugee come from refuse or refuge? What […]
Read more "2 BORDER POEMS BY TIM STALEY"The Irish Way She didn’t own the bar, but she owned the bar, if you know what I mean, the Irish red-haired beauty with light freckled skin and a laugh like windchimes. She could handle a cloth, a mug, a till full of money, a compliment, a come-on, bleary eyes, and brawling fists as if she were […]
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