How I Got Committed (A Chapter Book)
Chapter 1 I met Chris at drum band. He asked me out. Chapter 2 […]
Audio, Neurodiversity, Poems, Tributes
Tributes
Cowboy Poetry, Poems, Tributes
Duende
Shot with a 7mm—mistaken for a bear— he nearly bled to death, slamming through potholes in the hunter’s front seat
Latino/Chicano Poets, Poems, Tributes
Aching Knees in Palm Springs
My brother, Albert, and I, Spent one Thursday of our Winter break, Plucking patches of grass From four beds of
Poems, Poets Abroad, Tributes
Poet and Audience
I. The Argument: You Wondered Why You Weren’t Published It’s because the postman has opened All your submissions and kept
The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs
It takes a primal prairie
need, a kinship with Old Man Winter, with Napi
hunkering in sunless gulches, a longing
for short Fourth of July parades, the bestkept-
secret-café with a waitress
who commutes 50 miles from Malta—
big city with its 5 p.m. rush
African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
Chagrin
Alan W. King CHAGRIN When security escorts a woman back to the register, you hear other shoppers whispering their speculations—the