FLY AWAY by Melody Kowach
Tags/ Posted by Matt DyeI know this is not a confession, or a questionnaire, but it is like you are a letter I can't quite get out of the envelope.continue reading this poem
I kick my shoes off, plopping myself down into Aaron’s queen-sized bed and stare at the popcorn ceiling for a minute. Aaron should be coming home in about an hour and I’d prefer to be asleep when that happens. I roll over to open the drawer in his night stand and pull out a canister [...]
PISTACHIO ICE CREAM by Zarina Zabrisky
Tags/ Posted by Jason ReynoldsA half-naked woman dove into this pool in December.continue reading this poem
Zoe did not jump off a bridge or a tall building. Instead she shoved Gabriel into his car seat and drove to the New World Russian Deli and Bakery.
“Mommy, I want to go to a toy store,” said Gabriel.
“No,” she said. “Let’s get some ice cream.”
Inside the store, the marinated cabbage and pickled watermelon smelled like home…
Miles by Jami Nakamura Lin
Tags/ Posted by Jason ReynoldsIt's a collage of love and craving.continue reading this poem
I had a couple days left in the ward when one of the counselors told us we were getting a new kid. We were curious. People rotated in and out of Upstairs all the time, since most didn’t stay for more than a week or so.
Postmodernism, Really
Tags/ Posted by Christian HarderLike an old shoe molded to only one foot, I do have a thick hide that’s held up through years of nettling by tongues of other poets.continue reading this poem
In this era, psychoanalysis, plurality, irony, and skepticism become the hallmarks of literature. Geographically, Postmodernism denotes a period where, due to ever expanding forces of globalization, normative literature no longer happens in separate quadrants, relegated to European, American, Asian spheres; these denotations stand now as political descriptors rather than literal delineations. The “realities” of previous years are foregone in favor of a scathing appraisal about the nature of life….
