I dangled above the pronoun
& almost spanked it
from my perspective. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Maisha Z. Johnson
Poetry by Carol Bachofner
Living On, a prose sonnet Indian Canyon, Agua Caliente Reserve 1992 From a waterfall 12 feet straight down, into two feet of water 2. Swept off like leaves ready to die 3. Never thought about death then. Never thought about life then. All the same to me 4. Carried to safety by a Paiute, a … Continue reading
Poetry by Dante Di Stefano
Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind There is no algorithm to explain away suffering or to reanimate the skitter a leaf makes as it crosses a boyhood memory of idleness, and the most disturbing part of the brain turned positronic is that indolence would dwindle or be rewritten with code, but … Continue reading
Poetry by Shakthi Shrima
she taught you how to wriggle your hips until
the boys curdled like sour milk, told you tangency was just another
way of touching yourself. Continue reading
Two poems by David K Wheeler
Rumor is this devastates men. Continue reading
Poetry by Lucy E. Thornton-Berry
Two poems by Alexa Doran
Two poems by Alexa Doran: “Pretty Young Thing By Michael Jackson, a Translation” and “Untvanna” Continue reading
Poetry by Emily Moore
Love Song To wear a black corduroy jumper with red roses that your mom picked out from Lord & Taylor for ballroom lessons in the seventh grade and which you wore more happily when you cleared plates at dinners for the Junior League when her friends praised you as you soaped the bowls is to … Continue reading
Dear James: Issue 2 and Black List and Ideas of Failure
Issue 2 is voice driven and from the gut with first time publications and first publications in a long time; a teenage poet beside a poet published in The New Yorker; triggering fiction and essays that beat your heart and I can’t wait for you to start reading on March 30. Continue reading
Editor Spotlight: Maisha Z. Johnson
Our poetry editor for January and February is Maisha Z. Johnson, a writer, healer, and troublemaker of Trinidadian descent. She has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University, and she studied creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her work has won competitions including Literary Death Match, The Lit Slam, and Portuguese Artists Colony, appeared in … Continue reading
The James Franco Review 