Whistle While You Work #2 by Peter J. Kahn - The Literary Underground

Whistle While You Work #2 those temp jobs weren’t really so bad they didn’t offer health insurance so I didn’t have to worry about losing my health insurance and if I stopped showing up I’d get a text...

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For My Wife by Tim Murray - The Literary Underground

For My Wife Remember that night in bed laughing when I said If gross was net We wouldn’t be In this predicament Life in 2025 Always one minor inconvenience away From complete disaster Flat tire on a r...

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Life Changes Away From Food Retail Hell & the Bars by Bradford Middleton - The Literary Underground

LIFE CHANGES AWAY FROM FOOD RETAIL HELL & THE BARS As I wade through reams of poems From the covid-19 years it seems like They were written from another life As everything now seems so different To ho...

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Richard Modiano reviews we’ll go as i think of you between lines and the poor sense of smell from a landscape with drunkards or hanged humans by Minerva Reynosa - The Literary Underground

we’ll go as i think of you between lines and the poor sense of smell from a landscape with drunkards or hanged humans by Minerva Reynosa from El Martillo Press Minerva Reynosa’s we’ll go as i think of...

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Tired pavement acts as memory by Mick Parsons - The Literary Underground

Tired pavement acts as memory Please do remember when driving a two lane back road some mostly abandoned state route numbered and forgotten in a world bound by global positioning satellites and inters...

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12:38 Tuesday Afternoon by Brenton Booth - The Literary Underground

12:38 Tuesday Afternoon In bed with a burning flu at 12:38 on a Tuesday afternoon in the dead suburbs of Sydney. A small black radio playing loud in the dry adjoining white and beige bathroom to muffl...

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Employment by Al Maginnes - The Literary Underground

Employment Despite the promises           I don’t think the afterlife offers much rest. Maybe I’ve lived           too long with the habit of labor not to mistrust           an eternity of indolence. ...

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THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: A Taste of My Zucchini by Karl Koweski - The Literary Underground

A Taste of My Zucchini “What happened to your pimp cane, Polish Hammer? Haven’t seen you brandishing it around for the better part of a week.” “Ah, one of those middle-aged strippers at Uncle Buck’s B...

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3 photos by Carrie Cantalupo - The Literary Underground

3 photos by Carrie Cantalupo Carrie Cantalupo is mainly a poet but finds poetry in her internal viewfinder while out in the world. She loves the quirky and unexpected!  She lives in the Bohemian Va...

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ARS POETICA #69 by David James - The Literary Underground

ARS POETICA #69 “I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.” Steven Wright    I want a poem to save me from all evil and myself, then take me home and cook some corned beef, potatoes and cabb...

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Seeing Is Believing by Howie Good - The Literary Underground

Seeing Is Believing Belief is elastic. Yesterday, to the screams of horrified tourists, a statue of the Virgin Mary in a cathedral in Linz, Austria, appeared to go into labor. People believe what they...

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Laundry by Paul Luikart - The Literary Underground

Laundry Tim Watkins sent Mom love letters from prison. On average, it looked like, about once a month. His last one, sent the day before Ohio zapped him, said, “Well, I’m up to die tomorrow, babe. The...

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Fuck Your Spaceship by Jonathan S Baker - The Literary Underground

Fuck Your Spaceship “AI won’t replace humans. But humans who use AI will replace those who don’t.” —Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI “We do in all honesty hate this world.” —Marshall Applewhite, leader of th...

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Rent Control in a War Zone by Paul Corman-Roberts - The Literary Underground

Rent Control in a War Zone And that’s what you get for always falling in love with the tectonics beneath my bum get rear ended she comes between us with her sex our shared Covid has me driving 12 diff...

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Being Here Now by Belinda Subraman - The Literary Underground

Being Here Now This house purrs, pops, ticks hums and idles like a car but with oxygen. Hundreds of leds, lasers and color changing lights shine through crystals, onto walls and ceilings, sounds like ...

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[life in the void] by Edward L. Canavan - The Literary Underground

[life in the void] steady on course from the beginning of time funny how logic works how we can rely on its parameters in the living world while the living world came from an unprecedented occurrence ...

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So Here’s the Deal by Steven Meloan - The Literary Underground

So Here’s the Deal The same world The same species That can hack one another To pieces with machetes Can also move heaven and earth To find a child in a collapsed building The same world The same spec...

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Richard Modiano reviews {f}ragile Nests by Pella Felton - The Literary Underground

{f}ragile Nests by Pella Felton from Roadside Press Pella Felton's {f}ragile Nests is a poetry collection haunted by archives: the archives of memory, performance, gender, family, religion, friendship...

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The Poems on the Train by John Grey - The Literary Underground

The Poems on the Train It came in a plain envelope. My first contributor’s copy. No message. Just the magazine, cheaply put together, one or two typos, but hey—it was my poetry in there, along with th...

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THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: Little Lighthouses and Such by Karl Koweski - The Literary Underground

Little Lighthouses and Such During the three-thousand-mile road trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and back, I noticed a billboard just outside Crown Point, Indiana, heading south that summed up my va...

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I am an old man and I yell at the clouds by Jonathan S Baker - The Literary Underground

I am an old man and I yell at the clouds Maybe generative AI is just the further democratization of art. Prometheus stealing fire and calling it new and calling it his own like a printing press that m...

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Immigration Detention Centers by Belinda Subraman - The Literary Underground

Immigration Detention Centers We are careful with names. Names have consequences. Names end careers. We call them facilities. We call them processing centers. We call them temporary. We call them nece...

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Headed Up to Chapleau by Ryan Quinn Flanagan - The Literary Underground

Headed Up to Chapleau He said he was headed up to Chapleau next week to work on the roof of the new curling rink, the tonneau cover of his back half-box flipped up so the studs can hang over the back,...

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This Sort of Haibun by Paul Corman-Roberts - The Literary Underground

This Sort of Haibun This is why they sang Dixie. This is what they meant when they said “the south will rise again.” That white supremacy would again find its way into the corridors of power, where th...

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