Category Archives: Modern Poetry

The Littoral and the Imaginary

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The Littoral and the Imaginary by Carol Ciavonne printable pdf

Carol Ciavonne’s poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Interim, New American Writing, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. Essays and reviews can be found in Interim, Colorado Review, Rain Taxi, Entropy, Parole and Pleiades. She is the author of Birdhouse Dialogues (LaFi 2013) (with artist Susana Amundaraín) and a collection, Azimuth(Jaded Ibis Press 2014). Ciavonne is an editor of the online journal Posit.

Slices Of A Life Unfinished

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Slices Of A Life Unfinished by Ricard Bruns printable pdf

Richard Bruns has won awards for short stories poetry, science fiction poetry, & photography. He has served as a judge for photo competitions & is a documentarian for political, social, & personal events. He has been an editor, a newspaper page designer, and a publisher. Under the influence of Russian River Poets Pat Nolan, Gail King, & others. Richard Bruns opened up Fiction West Press, publishing Fiction West, devoted to short stories. Using electronic stencils typed on one of the first dedicated word processors, the IBM-50; stencils were run on an. A.B.Dick electric mimeograph machine. Richard is married to Judy, his wife of 45 years.

dimensions, doorstops, sidewalks

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dimensions, doorstops, sidewalks by Jamey Jones printable pdf

Jamey Jones is the author of morning coffee from the other side (West Florida Literary Federation, 2021) In The Key of Clothespin (Fell Swoop, 2021), Light Box Over My Head, (3rd Floor Apartment Press, 2024), and Under The Big Span of Small Regards (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024). He is the faculty editor of Hurricane Review, the literary journal of Pensacola State College, where he teaches English, Literature, and Poetry.

Organized Innocence

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Organized Innocence by Joe Safdie printable pdf

Joe Safdie’s latest books are Greek to Me(Chax Press), a selected poems dealing with Greek mythology, and Poetry and Heresy(MadHat Press), essays on poets and poetry featuring Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, and Ammiel Alcalay. He lives in Portland, OR.

Haiku & Tanka

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Haiku and Tanka by Scott Reid printable pdf

Scott Reid is founder of Poetry du Jour. He is a published poet and writer, a poetry contest judge and a teacher of poetry classes and workshops for children and adults. He has Bachelor and Master’s degrees in English from UC Davis and UC Berkeley. Since 2010 he’s been posting haiku and tanka poetry online. He has over 5000+ Twitter followers.

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Jim Hanson printable pdf

Jim Hanson, poet, runner, translator, lives on his great-grandparents’ farm near Douglas, Michigan. His most recent physical book, “Trees are Masters of the Space,” combined lyric and narrative to sketch a portrait of that farm, its history and its ecology.

Interrogations

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Interrogations by Pat Nolan printable pdf

Pat Nolan is the author of numerous poetry selections beginning with Rock Me Roll Me Vast Fatality (1969) and Fast Asleep (1977) to the most recent So Much, Volumes I & II (2018-19) spanning fifty years of  writing and publishing. “Interrogations” is the title poem of a soon to published selection of poems written over the last fifteen years as an exploration of sketching out longer improvisational segments into discursive compositional aggregates.

Shuffy’s Poem

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Shuffy’s Poem by Norman Fischer printable pdf

Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest. He has written and published steadily since the 1970’s. His recent poetry titles are Nature, There Was a Clattering As…, The Museum of Capitalism, and Men in Suits. Just out from Roof Books is his serial poem Through a Window. Chax Press brought out his Selected Poems 1980-2013 in 2022. His Experience: On Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion was published in the Poetics Series by University of Alabama Press in 2016. His latest Buddhist title is When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. He lives in Muir Beach CA with his wife Kathie, also a Zen priest. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (wwww.everydayzen.org)

Seasonal

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Seasonal by Jim McCrary printable pdf

Jim McCrary’s first poems were published in the mimeo format of Grist Magazine 1966 in Lawrence Ks. Grist was edited and published by John Fowler and later went from mimeo to letterpress and finally to one of the first online mags as Grist-on-Line. Jim published 4 books, dozens of chapbooks and lots of poems in many obscure electronic and print magazines. Over the years he sat in McSorley’s with Paul Blackburn sharing bad poems with him. He sat on the roof of a hotel in Lawrence with Ed Dorn and they  drank Old Style beer with John Moritz and Ken Irby. He studied with David Bromige at Sonoma State and spent time with Nolan, Mariah, Grenier, Kyger, Tills, Chadwick and others. It was the best of times. He worked most of a decade as Office Manager for William Burroughs in Lawrence, KS. McCrary is an old man and still lives in Lawrence, Ks.

Baltimore Sun

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Baltimore Sun by Simon Schuchat printable pdf

Simon Schuchat has lived in New York, Chicago, Shanghai, Tokyo, Beijing and Moscow, just to name a few. His translations of Chinese and Russian prose and poetry have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, as has his own poetry, which has also been published in five collections, most out of print except for latest, THE CENTOS OF SIMON SCHUCHAT, from Aerialedge Books in DC. According to Kathy Acker, “his poetry doesn’t tell you stuff: it is consciousness.” Soviet Texts, his translations of Moscow conceptualist poet Dmitri Prigov came out in 2020 from Ugly Duckling Presse.