Joe Milosch
Joe Milosch’s has four books of prose and poetry. A Walk with Breast Cancer was selected for a San Diego City Library Local Poet Award. His book Homeplate Was the Heart & Other Stories was nominated for the American Book Award and the Eric Hoffer, best Small Press Publication award.
Brothers, if I don’t live to see the day,
meaning, if I die before the face of bigotry,
take me to the desert and bury me
beside the border. For my headstone,
plant a barrel cactus, its thorns a reminder
Recent Articles:
Feral Citizen
by Rats Alice Trujillo
"Abandoning Motion Sensor Trachea Tightropes," "Bitter river surrounded by circular landmass," and "Glaring Dish Soap Chandelier Counter Top"
by Joshua Martin
"Dust: The Scent Of Time," "Everyday People," and "Happy People"
by Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Whether Real or Not
by Joseph Linscott
Unlikely Saints, April 2024
with Valentine Pierce, Tiana Nobile 문영신, David Rowe, and Caroline Rowe
Pun-itive Damages
by A Sardine on Vacation
Identity In Transition
by Su Zi
Mars Vanished
by Andrew Darlington
"Is This Poetry?" and "Writing a Staccato Blast for My Own God-Damn Mind"
by Bradford Middleton
"On Experimental Conditions / Cruel and Unusual Experiences," "Again," and "Cruel and (Not) Unusual Experiences"
by Jen Schneider
"Speed Learning," "Mammoth Thermals," and "Riffs on Who"
by James Grabill
Reunion
by Craig R. Kirchner
Drive
by Gary Duehr
Three conjunction lyrics, 4/2022
by Dave Shortt
"Friday Mornings" and "RIP John Donne"
by Lynn White
Zenith
by Craig Kurtz
Your call
by Doug Jacquier
Dogs Don't Send Flowers
by Gary Beck
"This One" and "Come Scare Me In The Thoroughfare"
by Michael Tyler
Moonshine
by Christina Chin and Kim Olmtak Gomes
'I dream you,' 'I have hated,' and 'In the beginning,'
by Ron Willis
Reprehensible Representation
by A Sardine on Vacation
Reversible
by Mollie Thonneson
Learning from Experience
by A Sardine on Vacation
A Funny Story About My Daughter's Funeral
by Jonathan Penton
"Going Nowhere" and "The Blow"
by Drew Pisarra
"Paper Thin Walls," "The Lost Birds," and "This Is Me"
by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Poetry Workshop
by Thasia Anne
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Louise
by Michael Cocchiarale
A Review of Joel Chace’s "Maths"
by dan raphael
Understanding
by Noticer
"Eye of the tropical January sun," "Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and War," and "The Ordinary Care of Providence"
by Robert Ronnow
"Beg" and "Limbs"
by Afra Adil Ahmad
Henry
by Robert Leo Heilman
Indulgences
by Joel Savishinsky
Vengeance
by Esther Alter
Whose Story?
by Ben Davies
"Four flushers," "The dangers of reading," and "Hate wins"
by Jeremy Nathan Marks