Leigh Backhouse Archives

Poems From Glasshouses (Stuart Barnes/Leigh Backhouse)

Verity La July 18, 2017 Heightened Talk

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A white, extravagant quiet (Leigh Backhouse)

Verity La October 24, 2014 Arrests of Attention

The Vault

Paper Riddles (Lindsey Danis)August 15, 2017
(Edited by Callie Doyle-Scott) Freshman year of high school, someone hands me a note and a piece of candy. I eat the candy but puzzle over the note. Really it’s ... Read More
TRUTH IN THE CAGEJune 28, 2018
You can find my whole life in my poems, like a letter to God. – Mohammad Ali Maleki Verity La and Rochford Street Press are proud to announce the publication of Mohammad ... Read More
Guns N'Coffee (A.S. Patric)December 25, 2011
I work in the middle of the damned city. I start when every other son-of-a-bitch is about to clock-in as well. It doesn’t matter where I go, I can’t get ... Read More