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Death Sonnet
hopefully the last of the Dead Poets of the Lyric series: Brenda, her wheelchair shining chrome in thestreetlight, her red hair up in a whisp likecotton candy, her magical yet… read more
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The old man was dead
He shuffled about the station cleaning and sweeping, but moving slow, I asked him and he said, oh, yes, a long while back, I remember it all though somehow I… read more
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Open Letter to Paramount+
We dont usually watch American TV, because, to be honest with you, its almost all crap, but as we really like Kathy Bates, and as i am old enough to… read more
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Not a poem, only a remembrance
Dull Thud The sound of the wooden paddle banging against the flat bottom of the aluminum boat I was told it would scare away the fish, usually by someone older,… read more
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Panacea for Everything
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Long time ago, when I was a boy and the interstate system was still being built, every town of any size had a nice… read more
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The Old Dog Lies in the Sun
ANTHONY WATKINS- Tallahassee, FL, USA in the warm grassof this overgrown courtyard.He is the last, as am I,the old lady died and I amleft as the keeper. Not the owner.… read more
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OUTLAW MLA ADJACENT EVENT
Thoughts from the desk Anthony Watkins, I know it won’t go far in New Orleans, especially on the MLA week, but I would put up $100 sponsorship from Better Than… read more
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Abounding Freedom
Review – ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Julien Gracq – translated from French by Alice Yang WORLD POETRY 2024 As a lifelong poet (I started writing poetry before I… read more
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Three Poems by
STEVE DENEHAN – Kildare, IRE Graffiti It is not the lightsthe buildings, the peoplethat I look atbut the graffition the tunnel wallsthe subway trains really movethe tunnels that contain themmade… read more
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Luddite, a poem
SÉAMUS DUGGAN – Portarlington, Laois, IRE Luddite The boy signed off all services dropped his phone into the river and headed into the mountains where forest reigns. Dressed in clothes… read more
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Four Poems by Marwan Makhoul translated by Raphael Cohen
MARWAN MAKHOUL – Maalot Tarshiha, North District, Israel Marwan Makhoul An Arab at Ben Gurion Airport I’m an Arab! I shouted, at the doorway to departures, short-cutting the woman soldier’s… read more
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Gaza – Bombay Suture
SOPHIA NAZ – Glen Ellen, CA, USA What’s the warp and what the weftRunning through this weaving? -Kabir by the tongue where tomorrowand yesterday are one, call out juxtaposition of… read more
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Three Poems by AMIRAH AL WASSIF
AMIRAH AL WASSIF – Egypt After my dad’s funeral After my dad’s funeral, I wore his clothesI still remember how terrible my relatives and neighbors stared at me.First, they whispered… read more
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Poetry is a Shoebox
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Where I keep all the bits and pieces, the left overs, the saved parts the map of how to change the world. Of course… read more
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Poems by Rae Armantrout
RAE ARMANTROUT – California, USA PREPAREDNESS Animals find us eerie.We can see what’s coming in broad strokes– washed out,frequently displaced. Still, it smites us. Like ghosts we pass back and… read more
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The Five Senses
PETER MLADINIC – Hobbs, NM, USA The Five Senses, a review of Resurrection River by Anthony Watkins. The University Press. Oxford Square-on-Thames, Alexandria. 2024. $11.00 paper. The five senses are… read more
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Fine Powder
DENNIS ANDREW S. AGUINALDO – Los Baños, Laguna, PH We wasted baby powder on our young hair.Thus made old, we spoke as grandparents to each other— “Children, gather for a… read more
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When Jesus Walked Across the Mississippi
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA It was early Juneand the black folkswere steady choppingwith heavy hoes and the heat rolleddown out of the heavenslike a plague from Egyptlandcalluses and… read more
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Sweet Jesus Wading
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Through the fallen magnolia leaves in some stranger’s backyard. they look like thousands of brown flat bottomed boats all shuffling to the shore of an imaginary lake. Leaves… read more
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The Rough [Sentence]
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Sketched [on the page]without planing,without the sharp shaving[of the English teacher] Rustic and beautifulmis-tensed knotsand wide grains of wordscurving and crackingunder the stress of… read more
Better Than The Times 