A witty, adventurous retelling of Odysseus’s long journey home, blending humor, heroism, and heartfelt devotion to Penelope.
Blindsight by Julie Dexter
“Blindsight” explores origins before consciousness, examining humanity’s cosmic connection while questioning existence and our inevitable return to earth.
Crocuses by J.M. Summers
Crocuses break through frozen soil as magpies watch from rooftops—a lyrical meditation on winter’s patience and spring’s promise in Summers’ evocative seasonal poem
Birds Send Him in Shock by Kushal Poddar
Birds Send Him in Shock” explores the haunting tension and trauma of conflict, using surreal imagery of birds, a porcelain bathtub, and a symbolic broken door
Momentary by Bruce McRae
Bruce McRae’s ‘Momentary’ explores the paradoxical nature of time through vivid imagery and philosophical contemplation. The poem captures fleeting instants as both insignificant and infinite
My Name is Jim and I’m a Poet by Jim Murdoch
Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines and a few
A Day at the Office by Mark Kerstetter
A Day at the Office by Mark Kerstetter Boggled. Paper stacked beneath a box of pencils, paint hardened in tubes, images not rendered fill mental picture frames like engorged intestines. A perimeter of nails, now rusty, encapsulates the unreliable frames. A pummeled palmetto bug drags itself out of the dust only to halt in the…
The Intersection by Aaron Poochigian
AARON POOCHIGIAN earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University.
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A hallucinatory vision of paradise and poetic creation, where Kubla Khan’s pleasure dome becomes a symbol for the power and impermanence of artistic inspiration, blending exotic imagery
She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824) was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism and a poet whose life was almost as dramatic as his works.