poem

Michael Shewmaker, the Beach

Michael Shewmaker is no stranger to sandy beaches. Whether lounging on the shore or diving into the waves, he has always had a special connection with the ocean. He finds……

Michael Dumanis Checkpoint

A picture of a sunset over an ocean can be seen, the sky is a mix of pink, orange, and purple tones. The horizon is illuminated by a brilliant glow,……

Rae Armantrout One Thing

Rae Armantrout is one of the most acclaimed and celebrated contemporary American poets. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and is associated with a……

Trilogy of Doubt

What form do you ask for pointing at me with your scorn- raised brow you clutch your coxcomb    velvet robe with your left hand ringed    married to God……

Blood and Soil

The advantages of online learning are plentiful. One of the major benefits is the convenience that it provides. Students can access course materials at any time that is most suitable……

My List of True Facts

Are you looking for a list of true facts that will leave you in awe? Look no further! This list of true facts is sure to be the perfect source……

Wunderlich

A world of whimsy awaits, one which is full of laughter, discovery, and joy. Step off the beaten path and into a place of imagination, a place where anything can……

Cathedral

Before the war we bury the windows Before we bury the windows we take them down The tallest of us altar boys  lifts a purple blade from a frozen robe……

Hip Hop Cricket

This ’hood’s vast and I’m its chief sentinel, a natural  born horn.  I’m a clarion  nation, the itch  in heaven’s  evening clothes.  Where I’m from ain’t no “my bad”— I……

The Spring Cricket’s Discourse on Critics

Everybody’s got a song they’ve gotta sing. So they say. So they  think. Everybody’s got a pair of fat thighs  they believe they can  just crush together  & crank out……

Forced March

after Dan Beachy-Quick The difference between marching and walking is the order to depart from the barracks, automatic rifles behind us.  Around their stocks and grips, their barrels and magazines……

Annunciation in a Gas Station Bathroom

After I pee and wipe, I creep close, sit on my heels, wanting to see the electric pinkness, but not wanting   to stroke the baby mouse’s nakedness or to……

I Am Become a Man

Becoming a man is a major milestone in any person’s life. It is a time of transition, of leaving childhood behind and learning to take on greater responsibility. It is……

Interstate Highway System

Rather than replicating the exact words, one can rephrase the text to eliminate any signs of plagiarism while still preserving the context and semantic meaning. This can be done by……

Human Lag

Mother told me I was born in a dark cabin surrounded by pines  so thick that all day it seemed like evening. Mother said that my bearded father could not……

Bone Broth for Dirges

For Tony Bone broth for dirges, for flowers of fat, orange zest, and too many clothes for this heat, for speeded hearts and waiting for the steam to go corporeal,……

Don’t Write Elegies

Don’t write elegies anymore, let someone else stumble past the mausoleum and grieve under the calm shade of a plane tree, wiping away the tears of his ex-wife, staining the……

In the Morning All of Her Pain

is trying to happen at the top of its voice     drivers shutting off engines at the bus stop hanging out their cracked-open doors blue jackets     this……

Bad Airs

Always born too late. I know I am just the type of woman to be a consumptive beauty: more ghostly   than failure, scarlet lips of low-grade fever— tuberculosis strung……

The Antiquities

I am on foot, getting lost in the town where my brother and sister were born, where my mother and my father met in high school, where my grandmother and……

Ourselves

      found from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway   She caught green flowers for him would tell him stories under the fern tree, but he only frowned and said……

Slate

  I rack but as usual the deck. orange flames Break in pin-stripes, the rack. BBQs, Bust shiny ribs. the wreck. The soil My aunt goes down used to date……