Category:Poetry

My Ballad – Lisa Jura Golabek

Poem by Carol Dine

Poetry
  1938. “Come in before the house fills up with flies,” says the woman in the doorway, hair tightly wound in a bun. I follow her into a dark-paneled foyer, through the musty parlor of the hostel on Willesden Lane.…

Gathering

Ellen Francese

Poetry
Ellen Francese       I have met death / Once Twice / The ground caught me / I could not run away /
Orpheus, Norman McBeath

Excerpts from Simonides

Robert Crawford (poetry) Norman McBeath (photography)

Photography Poetry Scottish Feature
Simonides is a collaboration between the poet Robert Crawford and the photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath. The work features black and white photographs paired with Scots (and English) translations

Art

Joanna Katzen

Poetry
Joanna Katzen is a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music.  During the course of her studies, she took writing classes in which she discovered nonsense poetry, a form made famous by Lewis Carroll, among others.

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Erica Charis

Poetry
A mother’s tongue / forges sounds into syllables / blowing gently on the sparks / of recognition, traveling / from attentive ears to amazed eyes,

Sonnet 23

Jordan Casty

Poetry
The moon is only good for hanging hats. / It’s lost whatever magic songs it played / And now it’s just a night-light for the rats. /

Raspberry Sorbet

April Gompers

Poetry
A girl with lips the color / Of raspberry sorbet / Takes a drag of her last cigarette, / Or so she says. /

Stained Glass Sea

April Gompers

Poetry
The colored air that we breathe / Ricochets from the waves / Of a stained glass sea. /