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Poetry

Poetry

Smoke Secedes

By Martin Bemberg A ready-damned-made americano, iced: Where’s the taste it ought to have? And where’s my money back? I’m ...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 14, 2012
Poetry

Life Without The Internet

By Martin Bemberg When I use it more often as a table in my lap And less as a laptop, and am under the influence Of things like Janis Joplin...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 14, 2012
Poetry

Butterfly Knives

By Martin Bemberg My lover is most Christian among Heathens And is not afraid of knives some cohort kings Have banned and brandished, Becaus...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 14, 2012
Poetry

Aging

By Joshua Robert Long you are never going to forget the way hair circles the drain or the way the altitude tightens the face the red in the ...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 6, 2012
Poetry

Payroll

By Joshua Robert Long I wake up every Friday and walk into the kitchen joints all stiff and the walls like myself feel less of the youth as ...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 6, 2012
Poetry

INTERVIEW: Joshua Robert Long on the life of a working poet

By Kody Ford Editor  Joshua Robert Long has been in the daily poetry grind for several years.  A graduate of Ohio State University, Long i...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 6, 2012
Poetry

Breakfast Road

By Joshua Robert Long rumbling hearts side by side Sunday mornings as the drive plays out through the car radio a short road to breakfast it...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 6, 2012
Poetry

Wandering out of a theater

By Joshua Robert Long clapping through the audience feeling idle and feeling fit standing up to walk between the rows everyone moving their ...
  • byKody Ford
  • Sep 6, 2012
Poetry

About Limping

Never trust a man who doesn’t walk with a limp and never trust yourself around a woman until you’ve dealt honestly with the limp...
  • byKody Ford
  • Aug 31, 2012
Poetry

“Past Arms Reach:” Benjamin Del Shreve on poetry, life, and reading Shakespeare in detention

By Kody Ford Idle Class Editor Benjamin Del Shreve has garnered a large fan base for an independent artist based on his infectious pop rock ...
  • byKody Ford
  • Aug 27, 2012
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