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Issue #85 August 2018

Al Gorman – Ohio River Gorilla

  • A VARIATION | MY MOTHER BEFORE SHE DIED | HART CRANE

    Why ask to know, twin and neighbor,

  • A Habitation of Jackals, a Court for Ostriches

    Very dark now I put a seed in my mouth but its texture and taste

  • Scheffler, Lindsay, Nuernberger, et.al

    Adam Scheffler on “Charade” I think of this poem as a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster. I write poems in…

    Editors Note

  • AFTER A FUNERAL

    After the service and reception hour

  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,

  • Ars Poetica Über Prompt (Not the Taxi Service)

    Take the worst poem you’ve ever written but that you haven’t

  • No Heaven for the King

    Always in the faintest glow of pleasure, and always

  • THE INVENTION OF FIRE

    In “Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland,” dated to 1585, three women lie on a large pyre watched by a circle of men.

  • Invitation

    Go now to the silence. It has longed for you

  • Terese Svoboda

    NM: I’m intrigued with these innovative new poems. It’s remarkable how each use unique and singular stylistic inventions to track…

    Featured Selection

  • Piotr Florczyk: The Milosz Festival

                      The Miłosz Festival, which takes place in the city of Kraków…

    Essays and Comment

  • The Birthdays of the Dead

    It is an affront in their land

  • The Last of Fanfare

    By fire, then, but within view of a rough sea?

  • Crawlspace: Nikki Wallschlaeger, reviewed by Timothy Otte

    Poetic forms are constraints. A constraint gives form and body, and also creates space. A body is a constraint. A…

    Book Review

  • Classmate

    I was at the beach talking with someone else

  • Charade

    I was thinking of the sad