Mystery, Menace, and Early Sorrow
The dolls never slept. They stayed wide eyed and unblinking on their shelf in my small, overheated room, watching me watch the man and woman in the apartment across the way. As a child with insomnia, I was wide eyed, too, although I would have preferred sleep....
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Recent Posts
Announcing Our New Associate Poetry Editor/Book Review Editor
GMR welcomes our newest staff member, Anita Olivia Koester. read more
Review of STANDOFF by David Tomas Martinez
Standoff by David Rivard Graywolf. 2016. David Rivard’s sixth collection of poetry, Standoff, released in 2016 by Graywolf Press totes an impressive number of glowing reviews and a heavy list of humble brag worthy laurels. Most recently it won the PEN/New England...
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Review of MONSTERS: A LOVE STORY by Liz Kay
Although subtle, and often hidden behind snappy dialogue, fights, and sex, the lingering and often overwhelming sadness that follows a loved one's death is really what holds Monsters together. read more
Open House in Open Season
Our prayer was not dissimilar. It’s the one in which man meets woman and they’re yoked at the loins, pinned at the heart, pulled together by centrifugal force. Grant us good sex, amen. read more
Deep Listening
It was as though technique somehow made you a slave to the system, a system that dictated a structure that boxed you in and held you back from the free expression of who you were. Lose the structure, shed the form, and you were revealed. read more
Wild Lemons
We wake like bees and peel a lemon. / Then there is a glowing. / Do you want to eat it wedge by wedge? read more
SHAARE TIKVAH (GATES OF HOPE), LISBON
In this landscape, churches seem displaced. / Half close your eyes in quiet contemplation, / look behind the convents and the crosses. read more
Answers
Because the day changed you. Because your sister just left / one day and made you the one who. Because you forget read more
Ode to Westminster Street
We do not know what a body can do… / how when she crossed the street read more
Russell in the Road
Whenever the revolution breaks out / in this country, he's ready to go, dressed / in camouflage all the way up to the visor read more