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Point Blank

By | 2023-12-14T15:49:48-08:00 December 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 142: December 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

An Illustrated Poem by Jane Muschenetz  MIT grad and former Bain Management Consultant, Jane Muschenetz arrived in the United States as a child refugee from Soviet Ukraine. She is a 2023 City of Encinitas Exhibiting Artist and winner of The Good Life Review 2022 Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian [...]

It’s Complicated

By | 2023-09-13T09:09:19-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: , , , , |

By Mark Williams   I’m scrolling through my Facebook feed—sunsets, cats, lost dogs, cats—when I see a post from a friend I’ve known for thirty-plus years. Someone like someone you know, I bet. Your someone might roof Habitat homes, deliver meals to shut-in’s, conduct sing-a-longs at elder cares, teach kids to read. Without divulging my someone, [...]

Velocity Squared

By | 2022-09-16T15:44:51-07:00 September 29th, 2022|Categories: Issue 137: 29 September 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Flavian Mark Lupinetti   when the gun smoke clears and the EMTs bring the bodies to my ER and I ask why they bothered and they say we need someone to pronounce them most times I say you pronounced them just fine but today I can’t bear to make that joke because these aren’t so [...]

America Cares . . . Thoughts & Prayers

By | 2022-03-06T11:20:57-08:00 March 17th, 2022|Categories: Issue 135: 17 March 2022|Tags: , , , |

By Phyllis Wax   Fly the flag at half-mast all the time because every day, someone kills himself or someone else or a bunch of someones with a gun. Fly the flag at half-mast because America loves guns more than she loves people.   Social issues are a major focus of Milwaukee poet Phyllis Wax. Among [...]

Trigger Warning: An Exorcism for Las Vegas

By | 2018-01-25T10:55:53-08:00 January 25th, 2018|Categories: Issue 54: 25 Jan 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

A performance poem by Alexander McCoy Performed by Alexander McCoy Cinematography and editing by Adam Jiang Alexander McCoy is three years out of Clark University where he earned a BFA in theater, and where he got his start as a writer and slam poetry performer. He has since moved to Boston where he makes a living, [...]