Poetry

turkish poem kucuk iskender

Every Poet’s Fate Is Sealed By A Stroke Of Their Pen by küçük İskender

From his initial years, küçük İskender was hailed as a poet who, by rebelling against the settled norms and forms of poetry, disregarded the boundaries that traditionally mark off different genres of writing. The poem published…...
Sunoco Gas Station

Sunoco Church and Other Poems— Morgan Boyer

Sunoco Church  Fuel gauge empty, fiery words filling the backseat:It's time for a pitstop.Just like church,no one comes to a Sunocobecause they want to.It’s a place filled with miserable, empty peopletrying to evade eye contactwith other…...
Existential Crisis

Instead of Turtles All the Way Down and Other Poems— Ace Boggess

Instead of Turtles All the Way Down Perhaps the world rests in an ambulancewithin an ambulance inside another, and so on,each moving from crime scene or accidentthrough an abysmal citythat might be a bolt…...
Dog, Puppy

Between Us— A Poem by Indrani Tuli

Between Us... We were at the picnic spot, near the rivulet,Everyone was busy, talking about his pet.The tummy was full, now journey back to school..."No one makes a fuss, go and board the bus!"The…...
Poetry april

Sand Worm and Other Poems— Sambhunath Chattopadhyay

Five poems of Sambhunath Chattopadhyay, translated from Bengali by Kingshuk Sarkar...
Poetry april

A Poem for All Those Unwritten Ones and Other Poems—Kamal Vora

Translated from the Gujarati by Pratishtha Pandya  A Poem for All Those Unwritten Ones 1. Having realized thatit is not true that poemsnot written downdo not existthe poet is devastated.He takes the ornaments offhis written wordsand…...

Let’s Take a Selfie with Time and Other Poems – Saroj Bal

Translated from the Odia by Dr. Snehaprava Das Let's Take a Selfie with Time Come, DevLet’s take a selfie with TimeLet’s stretch our tongues longerTo lick the ice creamBefore it melts and trickles downTo…...

Arachnid and Other Poems – Dee Allen

Arachnid She's not hard-wired for predation.Mating, then killing,j ust ain't her thing.Her instinct is more creative. Red and black, roaming spider,A black widow, mind you,crawls from one open mic to the next,endowed with gifts…...

Stories we Tell and Other Poems by Richard Luftig

Stories We Tell A bullshitter is not hostile to the truth but is merely indifferent to it-Harry Frankfurt. This is the God’s- honest truth,my father would saythen tell a story and us kidswould believe…...