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The Distance of Funeral

by Matt Gillick

The Distance of Funeral

A silent film actor died a few days ago. The mourning service played a slide show of still images from his filmography at the wake. Balancing a beach ball, balancing a cane on his nose, that was his shtick. An open casket showed a body wearing 3-D glasses on a bloated face. A self-aware bit from his standup residence of trying to keep up with the times. He…

Wrap up the week with a new one by Nikkin Rader, "Berries bleed into the ridges of our intentions: dripping from palms and empty psalms"

by Nikkin Rader

Berries bleed into the ridges of our intentions: dripping from palms and empty psalms

Babylon was falling to the ground where the loss goes unfound beneath the dirt beds Take me down to the railroad town The butterflies you once gave me now dead in the pit of my stomach their carcasses still on the ground fluttering only in caress of the wind spitting into the sky wishing bugs…

New on #LSPMAG: Anna Kapunga "Waiting for Death" #nationalpoetrymonth

by Anna Kapunga

Waiting for Death

Smell the flesh in the vents Blue sky through the grid laced windows I cannot bear the tears The date no-one tells Do not know what day it is The sun rises Time I do not see Never had vacations Reason to myself, my situation speaks A language that is my own, changeless Next cell, joy lives The crazy dog at night who giggles No letters on Monday mornings In the…

New poetry on #LSPMAG by Jaime Faulkner, "A Poor Idea of Pillow Talk"

by Jaime Faulkner

A Poor Idea of Pillow Talk

I ask him what I should do with his body should he become a vegetable, brain dead, hooked up to clicking machines my imagination fleshes out too quickly. He exhales and laughs a little, Jesus, Jaime, but I insist—should I let them take his skin, his spleen and eyes? Even in hypotheticals I don’t want to confront that ambulance abundance, the death by…

[Cool Girls Read] National Poetry Month 2018 - We hope you fell in love with a poet this month!

On the last day of National Poetry Month, we wanted to share with you some recent editor-tested, LSP-approved poetry finds. We hope you fell in love with a poet this month!

Shauna Barbosa – Cape Verdean Blues

The country of Cape Verde is a tiny chain of volcanic islands off the western coast of continental Africa. It’s got an incredibly rich history that rings through this sizzling collection by…

New on #LSPMAG - From Sylvia Plath to Jack Jones, March Is Lit, Too...

Even though April is National Poetry Month, Women’s History Month has some pretty spicy poetry goings-on of its own, one of which involves my tween-dream heroine, Sylvia Plath.

In sixth grade, I picked up The Bell Jarat the little neighborhood library down the street from my city bus stop, just a few blocks over from my junior high school. It was an unauthorized detour, but I’d made my peace with…

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  Gilmore Tamny has a story in Madison Smartt Bell’s Narrative Design, several short essays in Not A Rose by Heide Hatry and The Dan Clowes Reader. Additional essays, artwork, interviews and short stories appear in Chickfactor, Petrichor Review, Foliate Oak, Turk’s Head Review, Pithead Chapel, Meat for Tea, The Drum, Vine Leaves, and Gravel. The essay “Mug It: Mug Cake Review” appeared in Neurons Protons in 2017. Tamny wrote songs for three albums under the name The Yips and has a record with her band Weather Weapon on Band Camp, shortly to release a second. In 2002, she received an MFA from Emerson College.

You can find her on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, read her novel online, or listen to her music on Bandcamp.

And on we go with a new poem by Greg Hill, "March and Poetry"

by Greg Hill

March and Poetry

Not too many people want to write poetically about March. There is the weather simile about a lion and a lamb, but that doesn’t always ring true,

and it doesn’t say much. Eliot noted the cruelty of April, which is Poetry Month, incidentally, and Shakespeare has that whole thing about the darling buds of May.

On the other end, February is smothered by sappy and trite…