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June-July 2026 Issue

POETRY: David Bray publishes poetry collection Boss Hogs Kill Firedogs

Boss Hogs Kill Firedogs Austin-based poet David Bray has published his collection of poems, Boss Hogs Kill Firedogs: Rhythm & Rhyme of Texas and Beyond....
June-July 2026 Issue

POETRY: I. Boss Hogs Kill Firedogs

David Bray Armadillo World HQ – long before my Mueller arrival –In the Cosmic Cowboy and Seventies convivial,Had before it closed opening Eighty-One an A-list...
June-July 2026 Issue

POETRY: VII. A waltz without

David Bray Dirt burnt-orange viewed from the skySouth o’er stacked lakes river by river,Or cattle hide-burnt-orange? IWondered on approach to Mueller.Whether the source, now it’s...
June-July 2026 Issue

POETRY: Crazy/To Be Alive in Such a Strange World

CRAZY/TO BE ALIVE IN SUCH A STRANGE/WORLD--Lawrence Ferlinghetti Denise Duhamel with The Lunatics playing classic rock ...
January-February 2026 Issue

South Carolina poet Traci Neal’s words to be featured in Carnegie Hall project honoring Black women

From the press release: Columbia, South Carolina- based poet Traci Neal is making history as her work gets selected for a groundbreaking musical composition...
January-February 2026 Issue

POEM: Steve McCleery by Peter Mladinic

He made me feel like I was part of somethingin a way I’d never felt before and have not feltsince. Part of a community. I...
November-December 2025 Issue

POETRY: Madrid, New Mexico, USA

by Aaron Smith Whether you’ve visited or haven’t,Friend, you know this scene.It lives true blue in your red American heart.I promise.Allow me to tell you...
November-December 2025 Issue

POETRY: Museum Kitchen

by Peter Mladinic Odell and Iwere making coffee.Outside there was an event,a talk, a guy impersonatinga historical figure. Odellwas talking about fly fishingand as he...
Poetry

POETRY: The Hard Hours

By Peter Mladinic The Hard Hours, a tall, black paperback,by Anthony Hecht, said, “Open me.July 30th is past, the 31st is beginning.”A talking book. The...
Poetry

POETRY: Overheard in a Miami CVS Parking Lot

By Denise Duhamel The man on his cell says he wants a family treetattooed on his back. So you’re sure you canmake me a tree?...

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