David E. Matthews
David E. Matthews lives now in his home state of Texas, in the Hill Country. For 20 years, Unlikely Stories has published his barbaric yawp. A fact that stupefies him with pleasure & gratitude.
with her prowed breasts
with her hands down, like an irish dancer
she scurried slowly across
Recent Articles:
"What Will Not Let Itself Be Washed Away" and "Four Variations and a Theme"
by Richard Jeffrey Newman
Covid-19 Journals, June 3 and July 12
by Judy Katz-Levine
Crazy Times
by Travis McGavin
Princess of Records
by Sandra Arnold
On reading GennaRose Nethercott's "The Lumberjack's Dove"
by Darryl / Dadou / Baron Wawa
Meditations 77 and 79
by Susan M. Schultz
Poem for Philonise Floyd
by Kevin Gallagher
"Anthracite" and "Lamina"
by KJ Hannah Greenberg
"that dracula crap," "the doctor of trenton is the same answer as the rose," and "the day of the rising huh"
by J. D. Nelson
Drawing While Black Revisited
by Maurice Moore
"Places in Dreams," 'O aberrant phrases say pants in a wrecker...' and "Memories of the Star-Spangled Banner"
by Michael Ruby
“Passage” and “Piano Exit”
by Ilari Pass
Stages
by Zsuzsanna Peremantoni
"Political AF" Virtual Book Release Party
with Tara Campbell, Hannah Grieco, Monica Prince, and Amber Sparks
Chipped Labour
by Sultana Raza
"Golden Rue" and "Birds"
by Jeff Harrison
"Assembly," "Hunger," and "Internal"
by Mindy Levokove
On Design
by DeWitt Henry
Scene from a Box
by DB Cox
"As a Data Point," "Bureaucracy," and "Business"
by Ken Poyner
"Putin's Eyes," "A Gentle Flip," and "Ode to the Bronx"
by Regina Jamison
"A Drowning Person Does Not Ask 'Is This a Good time?'," "Treble Clef," and "I Listen to His Eyes"
by Sheila E. Murphy
"Exposed/Faulty/Gone," "Gr-r-reat/Hubris/Impervious," and "Idols/Jesus/Kleptomania"
by Scott Wiggerman
"The Long Arc of History," "Not As Easy As It Sounds," and "Round and Round We Go"
by Michael Cocchiarale
"Occiput" and "Red Code Warning"
by L.B. Sedlacek
One of the Guys
by Bruce Taylor
"Share Your Visions" and "The Figure Outside"
by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
"A Warning to the Mild," "How Soon?," and "Skin"
by Mark DuCharme
The Inevitable
by Marc Frazier
"Dead-End Loitering..." and "Insular"
by Alisa Velaj, translated by Arben P. Latifi
"For My Wife," "American Philosophy," and "Bald Head Sally"
by Zev Shanken
Nine Paintings, August 2020
by Elizabeth Pratt
"when a river flows..." and "whisper & smoke"
by henry 7. reneau, jr.
Someplace Without Washrooms
by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
"the feeling," "the fine art of kneeling," and "[can you tell me where it went wrong?]"
by john sweet
"Bag," "Jesus Loves You," and "In Perilous Times"
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle