Sestina by Carol Koss

Sestina by Carol Koss

Art: “Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard” by Nelly Sanchez Sestina: Words to the Unwise (Words in Play)   We seek within quotidian lives a strainof thoughts, of dreams, of wishes in a wellto satisfy our lust for sagas longto which we cling, to...
Li Bai translations by Yun Wang

Li Bai translations by Yun Wang

Art: Where the Clouds Meet the Mountain by Louis Fiorucci Li Bai translations by Yun Wang   Li Bai (701–762), or “Li Po”, known as the Exiled Immortal, is the most celebrated and beloved poet in Chinese history. These poems are from Yun Wang’s Chinese/English...
Afterlives of Dreams by Sharon E. Svendsen

Afterlives of Dreams by Sharon E. Svendsen

Art: Untitled from series Surrealutions Afterlives of Dreams You wake and slowly pull away from the gauze-like silken cocoon of your dreams. You yawn, stretch, arise, but the dreams live on without you— bubbles of anti-matter in the plasma of outer dream space. You...
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...