here we fall | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Reuben Woolley
Coffee Bruise Thursday features two poems from Reuben Woolley—different forms of loss, here we fall… Meta/ Phor(e) / Play
Michael Dickel
I am a poet, digital artist, editor of The BeZine (TheBeZine.com), co-publisher of Is a Rose Press (with gary lundy—IsARosePress.com), and educator. I am retired from the English Department at David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem, Israel. Finishing Line Press (FinishingLinePress.com) published my most recent poetry collection, Nothing Remembers (2019).
Dreams and Memories | Mike Stone | Sunday Brunch Tuesday
Three poems by Mike Stone about dreams and memories, some good, some not, on Meta/Phor(e)/Play
We chose a day | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Paul Brookes
Four poems, comprising some family history narrative | Paul Brookes | Meta/Phor(e)/Play
we dream we are young | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | gary lundy
These 3 poems by gary lundy dance to music & drink coffee—reading your meaning, meaning your reading.
Breakfast at the End of Capitalism | Chapbook
I am honored to have my chapbook, Breakfast at the End of Capitalism, published by Locofo Chaps, out of Chicago.
A tear drop falls | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Mike Stone
Three poems & a Haiku sequence, written winter to spring—glimpses of the world through Mike Stone’s eyes.
memories that no longer exist | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | Bill Yarrow
Yarrow’s poems—three pas de deux partnering memory & family in delicate ballet | Meta/ Phor(e) / Play
Modernism likes its own “post” | Coffee Bruise Thursday
Adeena Karasick takes us on a satiric tour through the shards and fragments of literary and post-consumerist culture.
An Idea for a Short Story | Sunday Brunch Tuesday
Stone’s An Idea for a Short Story shows poems’ & stories’ value to being human. | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | MPP
The BeZine | May 2017
Honesty and Transparency, the Post Truth Era—the latest issue of The BeZine, is up. Here is Jamie Dedes’ introduction. I lent a hand in publication, & have two poems and an essay in the May edition. Stop by at The BeZine and have a look.
Coffee Bruise Thursday | The Rains of Babylon | Song
A song for the times—simple chords & words. The Rains of Babylon | Bruised Coffee Thursday | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
Sunday Brunch Tuesday | Reuben Woolley
Reuben Woolley on Sunday Brunch Tuesday with 3 poems of geographic wistfulness | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
Consumer demographic bands | 3 poems | Michael Dickel
Three poems from Michael Dickel, commentaries on himself and our times on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play. Now open for submissions.
Le Hinton’s Cards Flash Back | Ann Bracken
Ann Bracken discusses Le Hinton’s poem, Cards Flash Back, on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
speak poetry | poem | Michael Dickel
The voices speak poetry even as so much else happens, including the poet going out | Michael Dickel | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
hired sycophants | poems | J Matthew Waters
A wall waiting for graffiti, a lost love in Paris, psychedelic apple blossoms| hired sycophants | poems | J Matthew Waters
unrepentant insolence | Hassan Melehy
Hassan Melehy’s poems, Recriminations & Doctrines of Honesty, provide “unrepentant insolence”—perhaps of the Beats, perhaps of our own.
imaginary maps | Poems | Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt
Evocative imagery woven into a sense of displacement, nostalgia, & longing | imaginary maps | Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt | Meta/Phor(e)/Play
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