5 for Coping

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
The makers and performers of these five albums get me. I feel like the creators of this music understand what it means to be an awkward, out-of-place, vulnerable and caring...

Torpid Slivers #37

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The following dance is for those who found the previous too difficult.

Torpid Slivers #36

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Must have tumbled out, poor chap. I’ll give him a lift back…

Vlad Interviews: C.C. Hannett

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Today, my interlocutor is C.C. Hannett. I could tell you about him, but it would be better if he told us about himself.

Eurovision Poetry Festival

Torpid Slivers #35

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Mock away, Xaphariaxa. Should any of your words sting, I need only recall that you are the mother of that brat Gangrezzelas.

Torpid Slivers #34

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The mating columnhoppers (Stictocephala capitellum) will not be happy until they can replicate in silhouette the hand of the entomologist T. Velchzinger

The Writer’s Life

/ Eli S. Evans / Misc
When I am writing poorly, nothing else in the world seems good enough, either.

Poets Online Talking About Coffee: Erin Hoover

/ Russell Bennetts / Misc
October has been a hard month fighting the capitalist, white supremacist patriarchy that is the current U.S. government.

Torpid Slivers #33

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Bephimogostoloma-Finnifigletch (a.k.a. Bletchmog, Botchmug, Fetchpug or Gustolomomorynomothobatollus) is a mighty baronet of Hell

The Smallest Tear: On Crying, Reading and Releasing

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Misc
The first time A speaks about her inability to cry after starting with antidepressants, the streets of Mumbai are angling for space between Atlantis and Venice.

Vlad Interviews: Adrian Manning

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
When I hear the name Adrian, I recall a Soviet cosmonaut Adrian Nikolayev. Are you an astronaut too?

On Cocaine

/ Scott Manley Hadley / Misc
There was a time when cocaine could be bought in a chemist

Torpid Slivers #32

/ Colin Raff / Misc
If you think C and D are exactly alike, accept that you will never find out where the treasure is hidden.

Torpid Slivers #31

/ Colin Raff / Misc
They say a sailor’s lot is rougher now than it’s ever been.

Torpid Slivers #30

/ Colin Raff / Misc
This costume, designed after Haugrellet’s “Bivaloum Racing Along the Glaubenberg Pass,” is of azure satin with golden bands, buttons, tassel and mask trimming.

Where Are the Children- Raina J. León

/ Jasminne Mendez / Misc, Poetry
Consolation when a fire crown splits the body, a thumb-print mark emerges, unspooling into the […]

Where Are the Children- Leslie Contreras Schwartz

/ Jasminne Mendez / Misc
Description: *Names listed are the names of missing children in Texas I wrote this poem […]

Where Are the Children- Emily Pérez

/ Jasminne Mendez / Misc, Poetry
Description: Several years ago I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about the […]

Where Are the Children- M. Soledad Caballero

/ Jasminne Mendez / Misc
Bone Breakers The bones will rise, that is what Ezekiel says. Grey and dusty, buried […]

Where Are the Children- Patricia Garcia

/ Jasminne Mendez / Misc
Korea, 1959 no orphan no baby box no baby box no mother’s hair no mother’s […]