Poets are like Butterflies

The editor of Poesy Magazine proclaims on his News page that he’s “back again,” and, after 18 months of downtime, he’s “continuing Poesy and returning refreshed, rested and with a vengance to make an impact.”  Except that was posted 5 months ago and there doesn’t seem to be any activity since.  Ah, well.  I know [...]

Online Literary Journals 2

Lovers of poetry and fiction: find 10 different links to online literary journals on the web and gain free access to thousands of stories and poems being published today.

Flash Fiction: Dani-Girl’s Guide to Getting Everything Right

Author, Gay Degani, has a great flash fiction story out called Dani-Girl’s Guide to Getting Everything Right.  This short short story starts out: The minute the nose of my Honda Civic points north on the 5, my hands begin to sweat, my breath goes shallow, and somewhere down in my lower intestinal tract I feel [...]

Flash Fiction Award-Winning “Walking Upside Down”

Sometimes sudden fiction blurs the line between the short short story and poetry.  Walking Upside Down, John Ravenscroft’s previous winner of the Storycove Flash Fiction Award, is one such piece.  Personally, I think this would read better as a long poem than a flash fiction story, but no matter how it’s presented, there’s no denying [...]

Someone Else’s Things

I read a lot of poetry I don’t like.  Some days I get lucky and find something good right away; other days, I have to plow through a mountain of bad poetry in my search for that one poem that will bring a smile to my lips.  Today was one of those “mountain of bad poetry” [...]

No Third Date

Okay, I wasn’t even sure I liked this online magazine upon first perusal, but now it is quickly becoming one of my favorites.  It’s quirky, strange, a little silly, and perhaps an acquired taste, but one I’ve now grown to love. Don’t miss the poem by Marilyn Letts called No Third Date at Feathertale.com.  The last [...]

The Orange Room Review

Thank you to Justin Hyde for sending me an email and turning me on to the online poetry journal, The Orange Room Review.  (Yes, I am getting some emails, but I’m not sure if I’m getting all emails, so if you’ve sent me one and think I’m ignoring you, I probably didn’t receive it.  Or [...]

Off Course

This is from a poem is called Hard Labor by Rebecca Lu Kiernan and appears in a 2005 edition of the literary journal, Off Course: “I would crawl over uncharted shipwrecks, Frozen tundra, rip tides, To touch you in the dance Of bent cobalt willows Tremulous in the grey December rain. I would walk the [...]

Two Random Moments

Lyn Cannaday’s work has been featured on this blog before.  She’s a talented writer, and I’d like to do my part to help her get exposure.  She recently had a poem published at poeticdiversity called Two Random Moments.  Here’s an excerpt: “My heart tripped on the history of tuffets and cheap horror films Where cameras magnify tiny [...]

Archaeologist’s Poem

After Three Hours of Screening Dirt at Heshotauthla is the name of Ann Walters’ poem, found at the Ballard Street Poetry Journal.  It begins: “From her open palm sweat rises, and oil, dust, a thousand exhalations of the nerves…” Read the rest of this short poem by Walters, a former physical anthropologist and archaeologist, or visit the Ballard Street [...]