Slam Up Spreads Message of Love and TMI
October 22, 2014
On a regular Thursday night in Baltimore, patrons of The Bun Shop were equal parts delighted and surprised to find…
Poetry: Sam Reiser
April 1, 2014
SIGNALING THROUGH THE FIRE 1. There is a sad tune playing in the melodica of my heart. You can blow…
Mark Cugini Talks About His New Collection of Poems, I’m Just Happy To Be Here
March 25, 2014
D.C. poet, publisher, and all-around tornado of enthusiasm and goodness, Mark Cugini, is alive and happy about it. He wants…
Poetry: 2 by Patrick Trotti
February 11, 2014
you say I, i say i i write without capital letters not for effect or affect but because I’m unsure…
Interview: Tim Paggi’s Work Ethic
January 20, 2014
Poetry is not always concerned with standing at intersections in yellow woods or chasing repetitious ravens from your chamber door,…
Poetry: 2 by Sarah Jane Miller
January 15, 2014
Everyone’s Birthday A miraculous riverboat divides the clustered flock of walleye fish, those scaled lions ponderously vast. Here cries…
Poetry: 2 by Jenny O’Grady
November 21, 2013
The Captain’s Habit Ignores the nipping of his late wife’s twin Pomeranians, brushes their concerns away with two slides of…
Poetry: 2 by Amanda McCormick
October 10, 2013
Great Daylight Fireball, 1972 plain vigor dazzle a supple sky nice to see someone make a far flash all to…
Poetry: 2 by Fitz Fitzgerald
September 26, 2013
The following poems are part of the Thing to Do in Baltimore series of poems by Fitz Fitzgerald. We’ll be posting…
If I Broke It :: Poetry :: Amy Arthur
September 4, 2013
Illustration by Carabella Sands If I Broke It If my mind didn’t sail immediately past release to…
Poetry: 2 by Brian Checco
August 15, 2013
4am in the morning threading through sepsis streets with my pockets full of crumpled receipts.…
Poetry: 2 by Boona Daroom
July 25, 2013
Playing With Rockets Mother frisbees palm frond. Laced flabellum cut too thick. Factory boss geeks wave like a…
It’s Wrong to Want to Be Raptured
July 7, 2013
R.M. O'Brien affords us an opportunity to ponder downside of rapture and the parallels between Satan and Glen Beck.…
Poetry: Ashtray Mouth by Matthew Falk
June 24, 2013
Ashtray Mouth I swear, she makes me want to change my name. When she puts on her face, I…
Poetry: 2 by Matthew Zingg
June 13, 2013
Two poems, each an escape into wistful rumination, events that we've heard of but couldn't have actually seen. …
Poetry: 3. Une Graine (Excerpted from Lux Light Lumiere) by Jesse Mitchell
May 30, 2013
3. Une Graine Ambulances and cars slam screaming, moon soaked, through the hard streets baked clean by the sun all…
Poetry: news by Jared T. Fischer
May 16, 2013
news we don’t give ourselves enough credit for not being violent: old lady in the library reading tolstoy; the family…
Poetry: 2 poems by Lori Markland
April 23, 2013
Burying the hatchets They’re all about heroics, these skeletons—showing up on Saturdays for dinner and a nap. They might…
