Chris Butters
Chris Butters has been published in Paterson Literary Review, Chiron Review, Blue Collar Review, Home Planet News Online and dispatchespoetrywars.com. He is the previous coproducer of WBAI-FM's weekly Arts Express radio show in New York City. He recommends the Police Reform Organizing Project.
it makes me want to dance
and sing!
the way the comedian
tells the joke!
and everyone laughs and laughs
1984, I think:
heroin was king,
crack was coming in.
A strange word called AIDS.
Soviet Union downfall hadn’t happened yet.
no, to tell you the truth
I am innocent but
I am pleading guilty
because I need to get out
for my job before next Thursday
Recent Articles:
"Tu Ti Spezzasti"
by Michael Ruby
Flux Me Fast and Slow
by Adeena Karasick
Germany in the nighttime
by Paweł Markiewicz
Hobbledehoy Would Say Something Grand
by M.W. Miller
Arms outstretched
by James Hannan
"Labanotation," "Eight," and "Groyne"
by Cassandra Atherton
"And the crows..." and "Ellen and Roman"
by George Held
"They Keep Saying My Generation Will Save the World," "Gestures," and "Walking Past the Old Zoo Ruins"
by Honor Zetzer
Prophecy is a Broken Line
by Arielle M. DeVito
"Ray of Hope," "What's Important," and "Burn On"
by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
"Backhanded," "Keep Repeating," and "Rear-View"
by Jonathan Butcher
Small After Life
by L. Lois
"Palimpsest" and "Faith Be With Us"
by Ken Edward Rutkowski
The First Commandment
by A Sardine on Vacation
"Neither Sound nor Silence," "Deep-Fried Satsuma Poppers," and "Still Life with Happiness"
by Christopher Shipman
"Disturbing the Peace" and "Mr Ray Gun"
by A J Dalton
prizewinning
by Maya Rose
An Attempt to Liven up Purgatory
by Marc Frazier
Dylan Seeks the Madonna
by Nicholas Foldesi
Poetry's Price
by Marco Etheridge
"The Tombs" and "[Clouds were torn sails that needles of light were mending in the wind]"
by Steffen Horstmann
"Withdrawal," "Elegy," and "At the Foundry"
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
"Red Light," "2019 Was a Very Hot Year," and "Blindly Bubbled"
by Kathi Crawford
Gestures
by Chris Klassen
Your Personal Story
by Paul Perilli
The Burden of Being Pope Sixtus IV
by A Sardine on Vacation
Six Images, December 2024
by KJ Hannah Greenberg
On writing and facehuggers: in eight parts
by Facundo Rompehuevos
Believe Them
by Travis McGavin
"The Children," "Another Day," and "All the Quiet"
by Holly Day
"Haiku String," "A Human Sonnet," and "Poverty Stricken"
by Skinner Matthews
"Silver Linings" and "If I Had Known Then"
by Amy Ballard Rich
"what for," "the F-name," and "es flat minor"
by Levi Wagenmaker
A Fly on the Wall
by Cyrus Sarfaty
Dictator in a Bottle
by Jessie Seigel
Unlikely Saints, July 2024
with James Norman, JP Bartley, Walker Rose, and Daryl Gussin
The Metaphor Peddler
by Regina Rheda