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POETRY

  1. Storm Creek Lake
  2. Home for Ants
  3. Sleeping with Icarus
  4. One With Others
  5. Merry-go-round
  6. Magician
  7. Time
  8. There Are Ghosts in This Rain
  9. Homeless
  10. Today
  11. Rabbit
  12. Widowered
  13. The Writing Life
  14. Cry of the Coyote
  15. More Beautiful Than a Broken Mirror
  16. All The Things
  17. Fifty
  18. The Poet Writing
  19. Another Day In Hell
  20. Spanish Vernacular
  21. The Reflection in the Windowpane
  22. Piernia
  23. Leukemia Poems
  24. Blue Tease
  25. Fire Dog
  26. Bio Hazard
  27. Off the Main Road
  28. Real Suffering
  29. Winter Woods
  30. The Mammogram
  31. American Express
  32. Even This
  33. Venus in Transit June 5, 2012
  34. Heirloom
  35. The Priest of Sepia Fields
  36. The Holy Ghost
  37. As If They Could Dance Forever
  38. The Song of the Siren
  39. Mitch Grabois
  40. Broken Nightmares
  41. Peanuts at 30,000
  42. The Dream
  43. Flashlight
  44. Shouting in the House of Whispers
  45. Pose
  46. Spanish Cathederal
  47. Drama Beneath An Alder
  48. Thoughts On A Clearing
  49. Kwansaba: Donna Summer
  50. Rondeau: Rollercoaster (Relationship)
  51. I Did Not Get Rabies During Recess
  52. Moles Loose In Queens
  53. Rachael Is On The Television Screen
  54. Be Alright
  55. The Sixth Pallbearer
  56. Reverie
  57. Slipping Into Night
  58. After The Battle
  59. Oil –Well Head Sings of Sorrow
  60. Smoke Invasion
  61. Red for Sabrina, on lock-down
  62. Whatever
  63. Requiem for Eve: A Whiter Shade of Pale in Five Parts
  64. The Day The Poet
  65. The Oldest Profession
  66. The Red Notebook
  67. Chua Bao An
  68. Angels At An Exhibition
  69. Old Soul
  70. BEDBUGS AND SUNSETS Workshopping With The Craigslist Killer
  71. It Was Before Your Eyes The Whole Time
  72. The Word Made Flesh
  73. El Sacaponche
  74. Ashes
  75. Neil Mathison
  76. Ray Santos
  77. A Writer’s Passion Cannot Be Faked Like When Harry Met Sally
  78. Robert Young
  79. Rachel Peever
  80. Ron Yazinski
  81. Marina Rubin
  82. Henry 7. Reneau, Jr.
  83. Agholor Leonard Obiaderi
  84. Anna Gilbert
  85. April Salzano
  86. Colin Dodds
  87. Mark Lee Webb
  88. Zan Bockes
  89. Keith Moul
  90. Kenny Fame
  91. March 8th
  92. Inspiration
  93. River Euphrates
  94. Secret Garden
  95. Road To Perdition
  96. Play Pen Open Mic Sept 4, 2012
  97. Play Pen Open Mic Celebrates Four Years!
  98. Play Pen Open Mic July 3, 2012
  99. Icon(oclast)
  100. Centralia, PA
  101. All of the Dive Bars Are Gone
  102. Pastoral
  103. It’s A Living
  104. The Last Angry Man
  105. These Eternal Times
  106. Stoned
  107. The Path of Life
  108. Lesson of The Cross
  109. Mickey
  110. The Care Givers
  111. The Pale Knight
  112. Blue
  113. The Anniversary
  114. The Absinthe Drinker
  115. And the Gold of Their Bodies
  116. A Sleeping Pill Shaped Like A Snowflake
  117. The Infidel
  118. The Markets Are Down 2%
  119. Cometh The Hour
  120. Death Of A Mouse
  121. Now Showing
  122. PLAY PEN Open Mic Tues May 1st, 2012
  123. Play Pen Open Mic April 2012
  124. March 2012
  125. Spiders
  126. On Finding the Corpse of a Cockroach
  127. Mr. Johnson & Us
  128. At the Five ‘n Dime
  129. Buoyancy
  130. We Are Leaving Them Behind
  131. She Didn’t Like What She Didn’t Know
  132. The Cold War at Home
  133. My Brother
  134. Studio
  135. Niger, Whore, Bitch
  136. Play Pen Open Mic March 2012
  137. PLAY PEN OPEN MIC
  138. Shiva’s Call
  139. Golden Gate Park
  140. Deer
  141. U.S. of Antagonism
  142. Artificial
  143. Entrapment
  144. Mercilessly
  145. Infatuation is Sometimes a Detestable Quality
  146. Autumnal Hymn
  147. The Passenger
  148. The Epistles
  149. Play Pen Open Mic October 4th 2011
  150. Crying All The Time
  151. SKA!
  152. My Friends, I Am A Can Of Coca-Cola
  153. I Married Mona Lisa
  154. Stone and Story
  155. Obosi
  156. Bowlegg’d Christmas
  157. Thicker than water
  158. Night Swimming
  159. Deadly Small Things
  160. First Night
  161. Poetic Justice
  162. Dining in Hell
  163. Out of the Sunlight
  164. Madame Fortune Teller
  165. Saudade
  166. Ejaz Ahamed
  167. William Corlew
  168. In This Issue July 2011
  169. At The Moment of Anesthesia, The Mathematician
  170. Everybody’s Smiling
  171. A Poet’s Directive
  172. The Definition of Noise
  173. Changming Yuan
  174. Alan Britt
  175. Benjamin X Wallace
  176. Michael Estabrook
  177. On Playing Musical Chairs by Myself
  178. Rejection Letter
  179. Prom Queen
  180. SABIRS
  181. Tell Me You Know Me
  182. Spam
  183. Disc Full of Promising Leaves
  184. The Axle of Your Will
  185. Seasonscape
  186. Content Words
  187. Locking Dreams
  188. Missing The Prize
  189. Lament
  190. Living in a Nuance
  191. Thunder Roll
  192. Taking the Old Dog for a Walk
  193. IN THIS ISSUE MAY 2011
  194. Richard Haupt Burington, Vermont’s “Clarinet Man”
  195. The Complaint
  196. Road Crew
  197. Demanifest
  198. The Geometry of Disappointment
  199. A Random Set of Golden Values
  200. Chant Before I Cut Your Circulation
  201. Pedestal
  202. An Unlikely Porter
  203. From Break to Dunk
  204. The Frozen Section
  205. Note to the New Hired Mourner
  206. On the Cigarette as Time-​​​​Travel Device
  207. Wish Fullfillment
  208. Play Pen Open Mic April 5, 2011
  209. Time
  210. Linger
  211. Somewhere South of So What
  212. Things Come to Life in Amsterdam
  213. 1946
  214. Line
  215. Blackbirds
  216. Cezanne’s Self Portrait
  217. Glorified Bandit
  218. The Interruption
  219. One
  220. The End of the World Lagos, Portugal
  221. Moroccan Children
  222. Laptop
  223. Casting Out
  224. Our Indy Pacer
  225. Earstopper
  226. Questions for Your Son
  227. Walking in the Forest
  228. Airborne
  229. The Three of Us
  230. Estuary
  231. The Past
  232. A Love Poem for the Cold
  233. Junkie
  234. Graveyard Shift Atheist
  235. Easter Snow
  236. Family Ghost
  237. New Year
  238. After Midnight
  239. Retirement
  240. Formless
  241. Symbiosis
  242. Between Tongue and Teeth
  243. Arnaut de Maruelh Sings for His Lunch
  244. A Leaf among Many Leaves
  245. Bones They Lie
  246. The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca
  247. The Forty Steps-​​​​​​​​​​Newport R.I.
  248. The Awe Bridge Dance
  249. Cat Burial
  250. To the Baby Behind the Glass
  251. Evidence of Us
  252. In the Light of a Cathedral
  253. Dolphined Children
  254. In This Issue: November 2010
  255. I dig this grave
  256. Dorian’s lips in ruins
  257. Each Halloween and lifting the door
  258. On Retreat
  259. Coming of Age
  260. Centrifrugal Force
  261. Yield Not
  262. Changeling Day
  263. BANG!
  264. Unfurling Lover
  265. Landscape of a Pool
  266. God holds His Breath to wake the night
  267. Boat Trip Down the Detroit River
  268. Fruit Moon on Lake St. Clair
  269. The Wrong Car
  270. A Period of Inattention (For Sylvia)
  271. Photo Exhibition
  272. Refuge
  273. Inside The Swell of The Sea
  274. Inspirited
  275. What Was Said to Me One Fine Afternoon
  276. Trees
  277. The Window
  278. The Double
  279. The Words on the Will
  280. The Irish Castle
  281. Schizo stage 4
  282. Shambala
  283. Night School for children working as labors in fish storage plant
  284. The Quickening
  285. Heaven
  286. Epilogue (For Vincent Van Gogh)
  287. Figures
  288. The Comic Book of Life
  289. Numbers
  290. Parable
  291. Cedars of Lebanon
  292. Will It Be On The Test
  293. Small Craft Advisory
  294. Specialty of the House
  295. Looking At a Last Lepidopteron
  296. Something About Today
  297. Time Out
  298. A Summer’s Distance
  299. Goose Woman
  300. Johnny Come Lately
  301. Before the first heart…
  302. You don’t yell across a tree…
  303. Mary Blue
  304. Letter
  305. Blood-borne
  306. For the Sake of Mr. Finch
  307. “Standing on the Doorstep with Borges”
  308. Becoming the Wolf
  309. Love in the time of digital: Apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  310. Boner Bob
  311. Primer
  312. Wig Hymn
  313. Longing
  314. Last Rites
  315. The Nature Of the Devil
  316. Losing My Religion
  317. Problems of Representation
  318. Untitled Meditation #14
  319. Vacancy
  320. Landmine
  321. Cold, Goodnight (for You, Me, and Yesterday)
  322. We’ll meet again someday
  323. Us alone and the long grass.
  324. Invoking Whitman
  325. Anti-Ode to the Lower East Side
  326. Motherhood by the Numbers
  327. Drought
  328. Sandra Hook
  329. A Child’s View of Dachau
  330. The Labyrinth at Chartres
  331. Our Mother’s Walk
  332. The Wind Blowing The Ash:
  333. i.e. got me a girl
  334. Schrodinger’s Pearls (Hilde’s Poem)
  335. The Distance
  336. Frederick Law Olmstead and the Biltmore Estate
  337. Leonard Cohen at the Bar (circa 2009)
  338. Tesla’s Time
  339. Falls Creek Male
  340. If Heaven is a Field Generated by Neurology
  341. I Stand With Kip Cootes:
  342. Ancestors’ Descent
  343. The Workman’s Song
  344. Heart Beats in a Dusty Box
  345. Gneiss: a translation
  346. Open Hand
  347. Jae Karma Ware
  348. The Play Pen Podcast Episode I
  349. On Being Jewish in a Small Town
  350. The King’s Cellars
  351. Yellow Roses
  352. Judgment!Judgment!
  353. The Fights
  354. Graffiti
  355. Some Afternoons When Nobody Is Fighting
  356. Four-Way Stop
  357. Inventory
  358. The Giving Tree
  359. Undressing Denial
  360. Old Friends
  361. Somewhere Over the Vltava
  362. God, Dan
  363. Ramifications
  364. Analogous
  365. Marriage Vows and Other Lies
  366. Guitar Contest
  367. Industrial Moth
  368. Learning to Kill
  369. But Instead Has Gone Into The Woods
  370. The Custodian of My Transgressions
  371. God in a Box
  372. A Break in the Day
  373. Vinotok
  374. Rain Muse
  375. Ponderings from Massanutten Ridge
  376. Snowed In
  377. Monarch Crest
  378. Ice Climbing Together