Art Feature: George Elsasser

Art Feature: George Elsasser

  AMERICAN PSYCHE: THE UNLIT CAVE by George Elsasser, Daylight Books   The Big Despite the ideals Whitman portrayed with stunning perfection in his poem “America,” the “great experiment” of America is increasingly faced with unraveling. Without a critical...
Kakku by Karen Frederick

Kakku by Karen Frederick

Art: Out of the Blue Boy by Gabriel Embeha   Kakku “Get to Shore” We floated lifeless among pieces of our lives. Sky and sea were black. The wind had died down a bit, the current curled ‘round our waists and pushed us further and further into the unknown. By morning...
For Schopenhauer by Russ Allison Loar

For Schopenhauer by Russ Allison Loar

  For Schopenhauer Show me your sun-drenched sprigs of winter, The juniper bug as he howls, The rise and fall of oatmeal In the misty dawn of a burgeoning wahoo! Show me these things, My sweet, bare-faced darling, And I shall inherit your property With the gay...
from Nueces Motel by Christian Garduno

<1. Swear> from Nueces Motel by Christian Garduno

  <1. Swear> Wishes in your eyelashes & you know it’s over, She brushes your hair out of her dreams, almost a cadence snore & wheeze, like an old neighbor’s seashell wind-chime, Wafting over a sky full of hope Not all poetry fits inside a wine...