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Issue #119 July 2021

Jean Cocteau, Green Profile on Grey Background, 1955

  • Memories, Friends in Dreams, and Reflections on the Poet’s Life and some Advice to Young Poets: Seven Minutes with John Skoyles and Nancy Mitchell

    Memories, Friends in Dreams, and Reflections on the Poet’s Life and some Advice to Young Poets
    Featured Selection

  • For Your Eighteenth Birthday

    Not a car nor papa’s advice.

  • Escude, LaFemina, Buchinger, et. al.

    Alejandro Escude on “A Streetcar Named Panera”: I wrote “A Streetcar Named Panera” pretty much as I was going through…

    Editors Note

  • The Opposite of Silence: Poetry Interposes by T.R. Hummer

    The dream, in medias res, founders on the grinding of a garbage truck
    Essays and Comment

  • Letter to a Cyclist and Early Spring

    The cyclist who’s rushing for the usual gold

  • The Rehearsal

    At our first duo rehearsal—Bach’s B-

  • Inauguration Day

    Yes, like thousands of joyful poets today

  • The Interview

    Where is your wheel? Your bike-body? Sturdy-car-self?

  • The Just Measure and Eels

    I stay here on the balcony after the rain, peering at the sky of a rocky landscape,

  • After the War for Independence and Despite Nostalgia

    Those boys in the basement, middle-schoolers, unruly

  • In Which the Sea Rakes at My Window and Seemingly Unlike Me

    and I wake rattled, as if to resist a long fall

  • Auntie Deluvian and Alien On The Ark: Two by Two

    Deep-time they called it when King Dumuzid the Shepherd

  • February Elegy with Tulips on a Glass Table

    It’s the yellow dust inside the tulips.

  • Elements and A Streetcar Named Panera

    An abandoned father heals,

  • I Was Reading the Sunlight, I Was Planting the Words on this Page

    I know why Cicero says

  • The Hölderliniae by Nathaniel Tarn reviewed by Devin King

    My favorite book by Nathaniel Tarn was not written by Nathaniel Tarn.
    Book Review