Issue #79 February 2018

  • In the Late Style of Eros

    Loneliness is a female shark
  • NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

    This is No Country for Old Men. The young
  • Robin Behn, Will Schutt, Partidge Boswell, et.al

      Robin Behn on “In my Thorn Dream” and “In My Path Dream”   These two poems are from my…

    Editors Note
  • Almost Lost Moment

    coming back in an incidental way,
  • Pacemaker

    The heart in vital meter recites.
  • the ugly purple corpse I lug behind me | you haven’t changed a bit

    the ugly purple corpse I lug behind me
  • In My Thorn Dream | In my Path Dream

    The thing is the delicacy
  • Mario Murgia: Gerard Manley Hopkins in Spanish?

    What happens, then, when such a unique type of language is transplanted into a completely different linguistic code? In other…

    Essays and Comment
  • Ode to My Dap

    Soon as I get my dap down
  • Licks

    We each were given three licks
  • IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT*


    It's 3 AM. The crows on one leg or none are already starving for infant nests. A few leaves hang on
  • Dog in the Manger

    As if you’d keep your bones from other dogs
  • LIFE ON ENCELADUS

    It’s snowing all the time at the south pole of Enceladus
  • May Cause

    Tinnitus, uncharacteristic
  • Bruce Bond: Lesser Gods and the Suns They Bear

                    Lesser Gods and the Suns They Bear   These poems are, in…

    Featured Selection
  • Adeena Karasick: A New Salomè

    The most recent performance of Richard Strauss’s Salomè I saw was staged by Palm Beach Opera in a shiny new…

    Book Review