Recent Articles:
| Darryl Wawa reviews No Ledge Left to Love by Dylan Krieger | HE-SHE-THEY by Trix Rosen |
| Defending Democracy by Willis Gordon | Child's Play by Mark Sargent |
The 20th Anniversary Issue of Unlikely Stories
Belinda Subraman's New and Selected Poems, Left Hand Dharma
Visuals
Videos
| "Traveling with Patchen" by Beau Blue | "Existential Vacuum" by Cecelia Chapman |
| "Food For(m) Thought" by Vernon Frazer | "Illegal Pussy" by win harms |
Audio
| Three Songs by john e | A Meditation by the Furniture Music Ensemble |
| A Poetry Reading by Michael Ruby |
Criticism
| "The Road Forward" by Willis Gordon continues | "Vertical Sleep" by Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett |
| "Phenomenology of Approach" by Alan Sondheim |
Hybrid Writing
Stories
Poetry
The 20th Anniversary Issue of Unlikely Stories was edited by Jonathan Penton, dan raphael, and Leona Strassberg Steiner
Recent Articles:
On reading Dylan Krieger's "No Ledge Left To Love"
by Darryl Wawa
Defending Democracy
by Willis Gordon
HE-SHE-THEY
by Trix Rosen
Child's Play
by Mark Sargent
The 20th Anniversary Issue:
I'm Not a Robot
by Howie Good
AMERIKKKA
by Ron Burch
Phenomenology of Approach
by Alan Sondheim
Streaks of Scarlet
by Michelle Greenblatt
Change
by Jennifer Waller Sibley
songs of the motherland are parakeets in a cage
by Alia Hussain Vancrown
The Great Grief
by Eileen R. Tabios
Sly Bang
by Larissa Shmailo
"Concrete Entrenchment," "Star Spangled Bullets," and "While the Veil is Thin"
by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain
from "Priest/ess 20"
by j/j hastain
better git it in your soul
by mark hartenbach
Under the Bridge
by Willie Smith
"Pride" and "Decline"
by Justin Herrmann
Terror Sells
by Mark Robinson
"Headstone," "Rumors of Yellow Flowers," and "Handbook"
by Bernd Sauermann
Vertical Sleep
by Jim Leftwich
"Just Saying," "In the End," and "As We Were Promised"
by Jeff Weddle
"Vowels and Vows," "Scimitar," and "No Muse"
by Larry Goodell
Trotsky in Mexico 1-5
by Kyle Hemmings
"my first embarrassment," "44," and "fried chicken and waffles"
by John Grochalski
For Emily Brontë
by Rodger Kamenetz
"I just got back from dinner what we had," "What would it take to make you happy?," and "I pretended to be you and found"
by Michael Harold
"Dowry," "Noble Savage," and "Blow it out your blowhole"
by Jeremy Nathan Marks
The Different Realities of Walter Woo
by Alicia Mathias
"Sunday Recruits," "Machine," and "HurRico 2017"
by Jemshed Khan
On Mental Health
by Robert Levin
Babes of the Bad Hand
by Tim Millas
Present Perfect
by Amy L Eggert
"Potential: 02:06:2018," "Reassign Words," and "Drown"
by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal
"Politically Incorrect" and "Hearts of Stone"
by Ellaraine Lockie
"Black Snakes," "Emperor Orangutan Leads His Troops," and "Fox News"
by Todd H. C. Fischer
"Onward Business Soldiers," "Muscled Off the Plane for Your Protection," and "The Time of a Few Gargantuan Nest Eggs"
by James Grabill
"Surrender," "Drawn," and "Snapshot"
by Sheila E. Murphy
"Reaving," "Invention," and "Dogs"
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
"Tree" and "Coronado Motel"
by Wayne Daniel
In my death I wander
by Alison Ross
"small coffee with two cubes of sugar," "aim and look aside," and "present is god's sandwich wedged between past and future"
by Gabor G. Gyukics
From Gaza to Mars
by Yussef El Guindi
Needles and Pins
by Thaddeus Rutkowski
Confessions
by Carla Welch Arthur
Neighbors
by Tsipi Keller
Parade of War Orphans
by A. E. Weisgerber
from Spasmo: (Ambient-Psychosis / Roma / Firenze)
by Peter Marra
"Buying Power" and "Revolutionaries"
by John Kuligowski
Of Guns and Gurus
by Louise Landes Levi
from "embodied duet, recalcitrant aesthetic"
by Marthe Reed and j/j hastain
Food For(m) Thought
by Vernon Frazer
"Without an Answer" and "Journal and Sky"
by Judy Katz-Levine
"in the hour of my disappearance," "firing a .22 at the old china dump with vladimir mayakovsky," and "on the road to babylon"
by mark hartenbach
"Hungry Ghost Dance" and "Recovery"
by C. Derick Varn
"Out in the World" and "The Crossing of the Bridge"
by Jeffrey Side
"Superegg Atlantis the Team of Bone the End of the Dial," "Wednesday, November 29, 2017," and "Bell Jet"
by Luke Buckham
"The / most authoritative / news in Canada," "On / a hot / Texas summer night," and "A line from Zsa Zsa Gabor"
by Mark Young
Mouth Pieces 26-30
by Joel Chace
"Chronic Town #10" and "Among the Forgetters #27"
by Glen Armstrong
"Electric Spaghetti" and "improvise"
by Alicia Mathias
First Canto of "Useful Despair as Taught to the Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch"
by Tom Bradley, illustrated by Nick Patterson
"Trance Position," "The Blue Compels," and "Waves"
by Michael Ruby
"Go on Green," "Standing Water," and "Alleluia"
by dan raphael
Squirrel Sheet
by Stacey Allam and John M. Bennett
"time waits," "numbered scene," and "surge phonetics"
by John M. Bennett
Resolution
by Kyle Trujillo
"Chatoyant," "Synopsis," and "Invisibles"
by Sanjeev Sethi
"The Forms Anger Takes," "The Sign on the Telephone Pole," and "People Have the Right Not to be Protected"
by Devon Balwit
"Born Into" and "Steadfast"
by Kenyatta JP Garcia
"What's Greater than Gamma Rays" and "Because there's too Much TV to Choose"
by Christopher Shipman
"Climbing the Willow" and "The Loneliest Haiku in the State of Montana"
by Dennis Mahagin
"The Instructions for Showers" and "Invisibility School"
by L.B. Sedlacek
locutus vulgaris
by j.lewis
Three Permission Slips, July 2018
by Ian Ganassi
"Teacher" and "Waitress"
by Joan McNerney
"Ray and His Mother," "The Last Bed," and "Last Flight to Nowhere"
by Catherine Edmunds
"Sargent K" and "Simulated training"
by Matthew Borczon
"3-Minute Feature" and "So You Want to Be a Poet!"
by F. J. Bergmann
'I paused in my car at a crosswalk'
by David Matthews
"Pleasures of the Street," "A New Routine," and "The Winter Alliance"
by R.T. Castleberry
"Taste," 'A flower born of a passing goose on,' and "So Below"
by Ivan Peledov
"A Sense of Falling" and "Requiem"
by Lana Bella
"Tarnish" and "Red Mountain"
by Susan Tepper
"Sweet/Sad" and "John Nelson Darby Comes Clean"
by Martina Reisz Newberry
"field trip" and "send someone close second to none"
by Vincent A. Cellucci
from "This Sentence Is a Metaphor for Bridge," July 2018
by Richard Jeffrey Newman
"Cowgirl.Vomit.Splenda" and "Toyotathon"
by Chris Nold
[Hummingbirds emanate from a mirage's radiant haze now]
by Steffen Horstmann
Manhattan School of Confidence
by Kevin Ridgeway
"Bad Neighborhood" and "First Thing in the Morning"
by John Grey
Let's Go Play!
by Saligrama K. Aithal
"In the Morning. A View from the East" and "If not for those children"
by Galina Itskovich
"Yelahbuga," "On the Fall of the Tyrants," and "New Moon"
by Irina Mashinski
THAT DAY
by Dennis Formento
Marigny Opera House Music Meditation
by the Furniture Music Ensemble
"Titicorin," "What to do," and "Mute Conversation"
by Smeetha Bhoumik
Palindrome Amphoteric Poems from "The donkey of eu(-) (eats the straw that breaks the camel's back)"
by Nicholas Komodore
"Drawing Breath," "Bear Garden," and "System"
by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
"First and Main," "Last Call," and "The Cheap Hypnotist on 'Ludes"
by Unnecessary Enterprises
"how changes your life" and "we all know I don't know how to let a thing, a body, go"
by Shaina Monet
"tree of after," "lawfully forgotten," and "date with dystopia"
by Dylan Krieger
"Transgressions," "Kaddish in Bones: Yahad in Unum," and "Sallow Surge Rising Manhattan"
by Martha Jackson Kaplan
"Like a Match" and "The Lesson Death Taught Me"
by Paul E. Sexton 3
A Litany for 2018
by Jonathan Penton
From Adame
by Rosalind Palermo Stevenson
from "The Corpses"
by Laura Bell and Ian Ganassi
Ten Collages, July 2018
by Alex Nodopaka
Traveling with Patchen
by Beau Blue
Twelve Photographs, July 2018
by Darryl Wawa
Nine Paintings, July 2018
by Erika Chamberlin
PushDown$Turn
by Cecelia Chapman
Existential Vacuum
by Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt and Emiliano Pietrini (album concept and music), Lydia Lunch (poem), and Cecelia Chapman (video)
Illegal Pussy
by win harms
from "Playground"
by Karl Kempton
Star Forming Regions of Sagittarius
by Smeetha Bhoumik
Seven Paintings, July 2018
by Sana Arjumand
Two Visual Poems, July 2018
by John M. Bennett
Seven Photographs, July 2018
by Christiaan Lopez-Miro
Here Today Gone Gemara
by Adeena Karasick
Ten Paintings, July 2018
by James Tascio
The New Normal
by Willis Gordon