“No Bra Required” by Reb Livingston
Reb Livingston is the author of God Damsel (No Tell Books, 2010), Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007), Pterodactyls Soar Again (Whole Coconut Chapbook Series, 2006), among other titles. Her… Read More
“The Old Vicarage, Grantchester” by Rupert Brooke
(Café des Westens, Berlin, May 1912) Just now the lilac is in bloom, All before my little room; And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink; And down… Read More
“Men at Forty” by Donald Justice
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. At rest on a stair landing, They feel it moving Beneath them now like… Read More
“Letter to a Godson” by Ernest Hilbert
For Christian online pharmacy buy female-cialis without prescription with best prices today in the USA Kernel of light sheltered in earth’s dark loam, You were born as the sun skimmed our summer,… Read More
“Still Falls the Rain” by Edith Sitwell
Sitwell had angular features resembling Queen Elizabeth I (they also shared the same birthday) and stood 6' (183 cm) tall, but often dressed in an unusual manner with gowns of brocade or… Read More
Epigram “V, x” by Martial, translated by William Matthews
Why is it modern poets are ignored and only dead ones get adored? That’s how envy works, Regulus, the dead make the safest rivals. So we mourn Pompey’s colonnade and its nostalgic,… Read More
“Magnificent Frigatebird” by Ernest Hilbert
Magnificent Frigate Bird by Ernest Hilbert Magnificent Frigatebird with Debussy’s Maid with the Flaxen Hair Slovak Radio Symphony conducted by Richard Stoltzman John James Audubon The sharp dark thorn plummets like a… Read More
“Jeepney to Anini-y” by John Schellhase
Originally from Arkansas, John Schellhase is currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. In 2007, he won the Walton Fellowship in Translation for his work with ancient Greek poetry.… Read More
“Cautionary Tale; or, What Comes Up Must Come Down” by Ernest Hilbert
Mushrooms, cocaine, whiskey: go on, get high. You know it will be a whole lot of fun. But there are rules, and they will be obeyed. You’ve been duly warned, but still… Read More
“For the Union Dead” by Robert Lowell
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“Fireworks” by Chelsea Rathburn
Although we watched, the city’s stock display seemed still and tame, a galaxy away from where we saw our sky explode with fire. We’d always choose our smaller, private choir of penny… Read More
“Willing Suspension of Disbelief” by Lorna Knowles Blake
He promised her it wasn’t just a fling. He wasn’t the type (he said) to run around; She noticed he still wears a wedding ring, Though he claims it’s absolutely nothing. A… Read More
“Literary Artifacts” by Ernest Hilbert
“Samuel Johnson’s gallstone was ‘about the size of a pigeon’s egg.’ (Compare the size of Pepys’s!)” – Richard Altick, The Scholar Adventurers Samuel Pepys suffered from a grand gallstone. Some claim it… Read More
“James Bond Suite” by Amit Majmudar
Original appearance in LineBreak magazine. Visit LineBreak to hear the poem read by Amy Watkins.… Read More
“Jazzonia” by Langston Hughes
In a Harlem cabaret Six long-headed jazzers play. A dancing girl whose eyes are bold Lifts high a dress of silken gold. Oh, singing tree! Oh, shining rivers of the soul! Were… Read More
“One Day” by Jamie McKendrick
I shall pick up and play the violin my hopeful great-uncle made for me out of seventy-odd planished bits of maple, its scrolled head a ruby-tinted fern. It sailed across the ocean… Read More
“Deciding to Stay” by Chelsea Rathburn
From the poet's collection The Shifting Line (2005). … Read More
“Randall Jarrell” by Robert Lowell
I've been rereading Lowell's "red" Notebook again, and the poems are taking the top of my head off one after next. Here's some Lowell, to get you through the week. … Read More
“Improprieties” by Ernest Hilbert
My friend is a fugitive from the law. For fifteen years he’s been on the “run.” What to do? Let’s get this cold keg started. We’ll deal with it tomorrow. The one… Read More
“The Hunt by Night” by Derek Mahon
Uccello, 1465 buy anafranil online buy anafranil online no prescription Flickering shades, Stick figures, lithe game, Swift flights of bison in a cave Where man the maker killed to live; But neolithic… Read More
“The Theft” by David Yezzi
Money I’ve made lots of different ways: back-to-back shifts at the Cumberland Farms, downing burritos out of the microwave, late-night entertainment being a wall of glossy mags behind the register in racks… Read More
“Summer Downpour on Campus” by Juliana Gray
When clouds turn heavy, rich and mottled as an oyster bed, when the temperature drops so fast that fog conjures itself inside the cars, as if the parking lots were filled with… Read More
“Safe in their alabaster chambers” by Emily Dickinson
This is one our favorite poems by the Belle of Amherst. Simply stunning. … Read More
“Exmoor” by Amy Clampitt
Lost aboard the roll of Kodac- olor that was to have super- seded all need to remember Somerset were: a large flock of winter-bedcover-thick- pelted sheep up on the moor; a stile,… Read More
“Shepherd Road” by Ashley Anna McHugh
Eventually, I grab the back-door key from the cup-holder, slip a folded list into my pocket. Inside, I dig through closets to find the lincoln logs, the cardinal statue, the clock shaped… Read More
“Junkyard” by Carmine Starnino
Owning nothing, there is, I see today, a touch of those cars about my life, a touch of decay in that flotsam of chrome I recognize, demanding a new curiosity, a new… Read More
“The Valley of the Black Pig” by William Butler Yeats
The dews drop slowly and dreams gather; unknown spears Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes, And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the cries Of unknown perishing armies beat about my… Read More
“A Suburbanite Briefs a Historian”
1. A Suburbanite Briefs a Historian by Ernest Hilbert 2. Suburbanite Briefs a Historian by Ernest Hilbert Oh, Lord, the middle class is so damned dull. I am sure you have heard… Read More