Playground Heat | Paul Rabinowitz
“As the long, hot days of summer wore on, something new began to churn and build inside me. It had been there for a long time…”, thus begins Paul Rabinowitz’s flash fiction on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
six poems | gary lundy
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ordinary headline breaths — 6 poems by gary lundy on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
Intrications 1–5 | Linda Chown
In·tri·ca·tion | \ ˌin‧trə̇ˈkāshən, -trēˈ-\ 1 obsolete : complication, complexity; 2 : interrelation, intermeshing —
Linda Chown’s 5 poems complexly intermesh voices, views, and arts.
Mirror Image | Kinga Fabó
Kinga Fabó provides metaphysical glimpses in the mirror find more than meets the eyes… with commentary translator George Szirtes.
Two Hands in my Gut
Dennis Formento reflects on Snyder, Di Prima, environmental & urban poetics, & his stasis + 14 haiku from Spirit Vessels.
Jerusalem Poems
Five poems from Jerusalem, written by Ester Karen Aida, on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
Six Haiku by Thaís Fernandes
Six haiku ranging from current events to nature to mystery, from Brazilian poet and translator Thaís Fernandes.
crossing as we would | gary lundy | review & new poetry
Book review of gary lundy’s poetry collection, “each room echoes absence,” plus six new poems of his.
Hear the Dissonance | Video
A HamiltonSeen film by Cody Lanktree of Michael Dickel reading his poem, “But Hear the Dissonance, 1948-2012.”
In a petri dish world | 3 poems | James Dennis Casey IV
Three social-political activist poems from James D. Casey IV on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
She enjoyed scavenging | Meg Harris
She enjoyed scavenging—three poems by Meg Harris: Memory, Bird Sanctuary, and Travel.
Letter, Café, Ledges | Three Poems by Michael E. Stone
Michael Stone takes us from memory through observation to hope—three poems on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
Three poems | Karen Alkalay-Gut
Three poems from Karen Alkalay-Gut: What I need, I am a connoisseur of insomnia, and Avishag Speaks.
A Shock Of Gold | Paul Brookes
Three poems about Barnsley from Paul Brookes—A Shock of Gold, Buried Treasure, and “Abandoned Workings.”
Girdle and Mirror | Kinga Fabó | translated by George Szirtes
Two poems by Hungarian poet Kinga Fabó, translated into English by George Szirtes, with the original Hungarian.
Selections from Hourglass Studies | Krysia Jopek
Three selected excerpts from Krysia Jopek’s Hourglass Studies, forthcoming from Crisis Chronicles Press.
[sorties]: a collage in parts plumb | gary lundy
Six poems by gary lundy—through sights and sounds into observations close and deep.
By a Lake Near a Moon | DeWitt Clinton | Poetry
Five poems from By a Lake Near a Moon: Fishing with the Chinese Masters—Adaptations from Kenneth Rexroth’s 100 Poems from the Chinese
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