where is the river :: a poetry experiment

Faizal Deen :: from He Ancestral, a novel-in-verse Jake Syersak :: from These Ghosts / This Compost: An Aubadeclogue Sheila E. Murphy :: Four poems Daniel Pravda :: Two poems Julia Polyck-O'Neill :: Four poems Sean Braune :: Four poems

Contemporary Depression think deviation of the register relegation of the off switch trapped in the is of the class act       my sister is a leaf blotter like my friends were rave queens. drag me out to the sand spur?       or in the wheels of a drag race mother? but in this age what has long hair become? a plant       of peopling unvoice and any political poem must first consider the flesh of the people now       so suffused with the bait and switch of the sin—but sin is only missing a K like wal-mart shoppers       hankering for a product suction cup. A pins The alley cat. there is no one left and no better       venue. this poem is unlikely. apparently we are near tears. a lizard’s scar—a tirade—a warm       tire after the day’s hard drive—that is contemporary depression. or has depression changed?     ...