On the BQE He accepted deposits of Rolls of pennies From little old ladies Cashed checks In twenties “Please” And… Read more On the BQE and Another Poem – Adam Breier
Category: America Singing
Uncle Walt said “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem” and we couldn’t agree more. We’re looking for fresh poetic voices that aren’t afraid to tangle with a complicated and ambivalent American history. Verse, blank verse, free verse, no verse…… Send along your poetic Declaration of Independence.
Poems of the Climate, I (after Eliot’s Waste Land, of course) – Jedediah Purdy
December is the weird-ass month, raising Daffodils from dozing land, mixing Hallmark cards and bafflement, mudding Up our seasons with… Read more Poems of the Climate, I (after Eliot’s Waste Land, of course) – Jedediah Purdy
Desert Explanations, and Other Poems – R.T. Castleberry
DESERT EXPLANATIONS Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ― Bertrand Russell… Read more Desert Explanations, and Other Poems – R.T. Castleberry
“Before Things Get Rough” and “Mothers” -JT Williams
Before Things Get Rough -after Denise Duhamel Why shouldn’t Mary be the world’s “only smiling Virgin?” No terrible two’s no… Read more “Before Things Get Rough” and “Mothers” -JT Williams
If Emily Dickinson Went Camping – Lynn Levin
Poetry is not a big tent. It is an encampment with lots of little tents in which souls select their… Read more If Emily Dickinson Went Camping – Lynn Levin
Poems by A.j. Binash
A.j. Binash’s American Post-Post-Modernism.
