Trump Admin revokes Wole Soyinka’s visa
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Arthur Sze is the new U.S. Poet Laureate
What writers need to know about copyright
Is the tide shifting to indie presses?
Florida schools pull books under pressure
Before We Give Back the Keys
by Kimmy Chang
You ask if it was empty. / I tell you no one was home.
What I Most Love About God is His Love of Basketball
by Carlos Andrés Gómez
How could I not believe in God / when He loves basketball / this much?
Gravity
by Alexei Varah
I no longer find it romantic, / how fireflies really do look like flickering stars
Deep Winter, Deep Cold
by Hayden Saunier
but there she lay, / bright blue brushstrokes / edged with black / against gleaming, solid white
Ode to My Breasts
by Erika Walker
light a candle, open the window / play your flute / let’s be honest / I don’t know how to do this
Notes to My Father
by Karen Paul Holmes
I never wrote just you, always you and Mother. / From camp, 1964, when one girl’s wails / started a cry-fest in our cabin. Please, please come get me
Poem-in-the-Box
by Stephen Parrish
Welcome to Poem-in-the-Box. How may I help you?
Love Poem for Those Thinking of Leaving This World
by Marissa Glover
Your parents lied when they said you could be / anything you wanted when you grow up.
Equinox
by B.A. Van Sise
The Torah says the pomegranate / is holy because it has 613 seeds, / same as the number of commandments
A Quarter North
by Justin Hunt
In a soiled envelope, a fistful of grain / I’d shoveled that summer
It all began around a campfire…
Beautiful language
is meant to be heard as well as read, and in fact words were vocalized eons before they were ever committed to clay or parchment. Storytelling began around campfires. We seek prose and poetry that continue the tradition.
Contributor Spotlight:
You Are Leaving the American Sector
by Rebecca Foust
Open Contests
by Stephen Parrish, with the editors of The Lascaux Review
