Australian poets Toby Davidson and Mark Reid speak to Verity La La editor Michele Seminara about their new collections, The Grand Reopening and The Blessed Affliction. You can read a poem …
Wax and Wane: three poems (Peter Mitchell)
Intoxication for J For years, my heart was drunk on you — each sight …
The Emperor’s Return (Anne Casey)
Just one piece—they will never notice he whinnied as he secreted the piece in his pocket just before he ordered the summary evisceration of his predecessor, as black letters slicked …
Desolation Songs (Robbie Coburn)
Karma Indiscriminate rain and sunlight. muted light, the room instantly full of bodies — the way they pull up your sleeves and remove your shirt, examining your arms and chest …
Monostich for a time of resistance (Amanda Anastasi)
Within the tyrant, a tripped over child. The stuck are full of words. The mirror reveals my first and last enemy. Most robbers come bearing gifts. First the shrinking waves, …
Reading and Writing in Exile (Mammad Aidani)
A short philosophical-poetical text I gaze at the mirror, and I say to myself: You were born, There is no return to the time before that, so keep living. Exile …
Eggs of Freedom (Nina Sanadze)
If you’re not a runner, get out of bed the moment you open your eyes. Throw on your ripped jeans and Birks, your painting shirt—nothing too sporty. Maybe even your …
it wasn’t that the yoga teacher shouldn’t have a car (Ali Whitelock)
just it was a porsche / & the registration was OM+NAMASTE / the artist said he only put the flying …
I am a Palestinian Child (Badaoui El-Hage & Zeina Issa)
Seventy years and spring has not yet arrived. For seventy years, our windows and doors brought forth revolt after revolt and we churned the tune of every song into an …
Heathpack (Gregory Day)
The birds live a parallel existence to us in this place. Their comings and goings. Chords and clusters. Three pelicans flying past the Moriac Store. A skein of ibis over …