POETRY
- Storm Creek Lake
- Home for Ants
- Sleeping with Icarus
- One With Others
- Merry-go-round
- Magician
- Time
- There Are Ghosts in This Rain
- Homeless
- Today
- Rabbit
- Widowered
- The Writing Life
- Cry of the Coyote
- More Beautiful Than a Broken Mirror
- All The Things
- Fifty
- The Poet Writing
- Another Day In Hell
- Spanish Vernacular
- The Reflection in the Windowpane
- Piernia
- Leukemia Poems
- Blue Tease
- Fire Dog
- Bio Hazard
- Off the Main Road
- Real Suffering
- Winter Woods
- The Mammogram
- American Express
- Even This
- Venus in Transit June 5, 2012
- Heirloom
- The Priest of Sepia Fields
- The Holy Ghost
- As If They Could Dance Forever
- The Song of the Siren
- Mitch Grabois
- Broken Nightmares
- Peanuts at 30,000
- The Dream
- Flashlight
- Shouting in the House of Whispers
- Pose
- Spanish Cathederal
- Drama Beneath An Alder
- Thoughts On A Clearing
- Kwansaba: Donna Summer
- Rondeau: Rollercoaster (Relationship)
- I Did Not Get Rabies During Recess
- Moles Loose In Queens
- Rachael Is On The Television Screen
- Be Alright
- The Sixth Pallbearer
- Reverie
- Slipping Into Night
- After The Battle
- Oil –Well Head Sings of Sorrow
- Smoke Invasion
- Red for Sabrina, on lock-down
- Whatever
- Requiem for Eve: A Whiter Shade of Pale in Five Parts
- The Day The Poet
- The Oldest Profession
- The Red Notebook
- Chua Bao An
- Angels At An Exhibition
- Old Soul
- BEDBUGS AND SUNSETS Workshopping With The Craigslist Killer
- It Was Before Your Eyes The Whole Time
- The Word Made Flesh
- El Sacaponche
- Ashes
- Neil Mathison
- Ray Santos
- A Writer’s Passion Cannot Be Faked Like When Harry Met Sally
- Robert Young
- Rachel Peever
- Ron Yazinski
- Marina Rubin
- Henry 7. Reneau, Jr.
- Agholor Leonard Obiaderi
- Anna Gilbert
- April Salzano
- Colin Dodds
- Mark Lee Webb
- Zan Bockes
- Keith Moul
- Kenny Fame
- March 8th
- Inspiration
- River Euphrates
- Secret Garden
- Road To Perdition
- Play Pen Open Mic Sept 4, 2012
- Play Pen Open Mic Celebrates Four Years!
- Play Pen Open Mic July 3, 2012
- Icon(oclast)
- Centralia, PA
- All of the Dive Bars Are Gone
- Pastoral
- It’s A Living
- The Last Angry Man
- These Eternal Times
- Stoned
- The Path of Life
- Lesson of The Cross
- Mickey
- The Care Givers
- The Pale Knight
- Blue
- The Anniversary
- The Absinthe Drinker
- And the Gold of Their Bodies
- A Sleeping Pill Shaped Like A Snowflake
- The Infidel
- The Markets Are Down 2%
- Cometh The Hour
- Death Of A Mouse
- Now Showing
- PLAY PEN Open Mic Tues May 1st, 2012
- Play Pen Open Mic April 2012
- March 2012
- Spiders
- On Finding the Corpse of a Cockroach
- Mr. Johnson & Us
- At the Five ‘n Dime
- Buoyancy
- We Are Leaving Them Behind
- She Didn’t Like What She Didn’t Know
- The Cold War at Home
- My Brother
- Studio
- Niger, Whore, Bitch
- Play Pen Open Mic March 2012
- PLAY PEN OPEN MIC
- Shiva’s Call
- Golden Gate Park
- Deer
- U.S. of Antagonism
- Artificial
- Entrapment
- Mercilessly
- Infatuation is Sometimes a Detestable Quality
- Autumnal Hymn
- The Passenger
- The Epistles
- Play Pen Open Mic October 4th 2011
- Crying All The Time
- SKA!
- My Friends, I Am A Can Of Coca-Cola
- I Married Mona Lisa
- Stone and Story
- Obosi
- Bowlegg’d Christmas
- Thicker than water
- Night Swimming
- Deadly Small Things
- First Night
- Poetic Justice
- Dining in Hell
- Out of the Sunlight
- Madame Fortune Teller
- Saudade
- Ejaz Ahamed
- William Corlew
- In This Issue July 2011
- At The Moment of Anesthesia, The Mathematician
- Everybody’s Smiling
- A Poet’s Directive
- The Definition of Noise
- Changming Yuan
- Alan Britt
- Benjamin X Wallace
- Michael Estabrook
- On Playing Musical Chairs by Myself
- Rejection Letter
- Prom Queen
- SABIRS
- Tell Me You Know Me
- Spam
- Disc Full of Promising Leaves
- The Axle of Your Will
- Seasonscape
- Content Words
- Locking Dreams
- Missing The Prize
- Lament
- Living in a Nuance
- Thunder Roll
- Taking the Old Dog for a Walk
- IN THIS ISSUE MAY 2011
- Richard Haupt Burington, Vermont’s “Clarinet Man”
- The Complaint
- Road Crew
- Demanifest
- The Geometry of Disappointment
- A Random Set of Golden Values
- Chant Before I Cut Your Circulation
- Pedestal
- An Unlikely Porter
- From Break to Dunk
- The Frozen Section
- Note to the New Hired Mourner
- On the Cigarette as Time-Travel Device
- Wish Fullfillment
- Play Pen Open Mic April 5, 2011
- Time
- Linger
- Somewhere South of So What
- Things Come to Life in Amsterdam
- 1946
- Line
- Blackbirds
- Cezanne’s Self Portrait
- Glorified Bandit
- The Interruption
- One
- The End of the World Lagos, Portugal
- Moroccan Children
- Laptop
- Casting Out
- Our Indy Pacer
- Earstopper
- Questions for Your Son
- Walking in the Forest
- Airborne
- The Three of Us
- Estuary
- The Past
- A Love Poem for the Cold
- Junkie
- Graveyard Shift Atheist
- Easter Snow
- Family Ghost
- New Year
- After Midnight
- Retirement
- Formless
- Symbiosis
- Between Tongue and Teeth
- Arnaut de Maruelh Sings for His Lunch
- A Leaf among Many Leaves
- Bones They Lie
- The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca
- The Forty Steps-Newport R.I.
- The Awe Bridge Dance
- Cat Burial
- To the Baby Behind the Glass
- Evidence of Us
- In the Light of a Cathedral
- Dolphined Children
- In This Issue: November 2010
- I dig this grave
- Dorian’s lips in ruins
- Each Halloween and lifting the door
- On Retreat
- Coming of Age
- Centrifrugal Force
- Yield Not
- Changeling Day
- BANG!
- Unfurling Lover
- Landscape of a Pool
- God holds His Breath to wake the night
- Boat Trip Down the Detroit River
- Fruit Moon on Lake St. Clair
- The Wrong Car
- A Period of Inattention (For Sylvia)
- Photo Exhibition
- Refuge
- Inside The Swell of The Sea
- Inspirited
- What Was Said to Me One Fine Afternoon
- Trees
- The Window
- The Double
- The Words on the Will
- The Irish Castle
- Schizo stage 4
- Shambala
- Night School for children working as labors in fish storage plant
- The Quickening
- Heaven
- Epilogue (For Vincent Van Gogh)
- Figures
- The Comic Book of Life
- Numbers
- Parable
- Cedars of Lebanon
- Will It Be On The Test
- Small Craft Advisory
- Specialty of the House
- Looking At a Last Lepidopteron
- Something About Today
- Time Out
- A Summer’s Distance
- Goose Woman
- Johnny Come Lately
- Before the first heart…
- You don’t yell across a tree…
- Mary Blue
- Letter
- Blood-borne
- For the Sake of Mr. Finch
- “Standing on the Doorstep with Borges”
- Becoming the Wolf
- Love in the time of digital: Apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Boner Bob
- Primer
- Wig Hymn
- Longing
- Last Rites
- The Nature Of the Devil
- Losing My Religion
- Problems of Representation
- Untitled Meditation #14
- Vacancy
- Landmine
- Cold, Goodnight (for You, Me, and Yesterday)
- We’ll meet again someday
- Us alone and the long grass.
- Invoking Whitman
- Anti-Ode to the Lower East Side
- Motherhood by the Numbers
- Drought
- Sandra Hook
- A Child’s View of Dachau
- The Labyrinth at Chartres
- Our Mother’s Walk
- The Wind Blowing The Ash:
- i.e. got me a girl
- Schrodinger’s Pearls (Hilde’s Poem)
- The Distance
- Frederick Law Olmstead and the Biltmore Estate
- Leonard Cohen at the Bar (circa 2009)
- Tesla’s Time
- Falls Creek Male
- If Heaven is a Field Generated by Neurology
- I Stand With Kip Cootes:
- Ancestors’ Descent
- The Workman’s Song
- Heart Beats in a Dusty Box
- Gneiss: a translation
- Open Hand
- Jae Karma Ware
- The Play Pen Podcast Episode I
- On Being Jewish in a Small Town
- The King’s Cellars
- Yellow Roses
- Judgment!Judgment!
- The Fights
- Graffiti
- Some Afternoons When Nobody Is Fighting
- Four-Way Stop
- Inventory
- The Giving Tree
- Undressing Denial
- Old Friends
- Somewhere Over the Vltava
- God, Dan
- Ramifications
- Analogous
- Marriage Vows and Other Lies
- Guitar Contest
- Industrial Moth
- Learning to Kill
- But Instead Has Gone Into The Woods
- The Custodian of My Transgressions
- God in a Box
- A Break in the Day
- Vinotok
- Rain Muse
- Ponderings from Massanutten Ridge
- Snowed In
- Monarch Crest
- Ice Climbing Together