The Poem that Fell from Grace with the Sea

Donald Dunbar You have pretty eyes; your face is the rust on the side of a lost freighter and the first mate is jumping overboard. You’ve got your sealegs now, your bedlegs I mean know the roll and splash of waterbeds but regular beds too, even futons like discount Korean yachts.  This air always does [...]

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At Sea

Laura Didyk My lover naps below while I sun on the stern in my sundress and dream myself a woman born for building ships.  In the cushion of sleep I build this one as I tarry on our Alaskan island more than a century ago. My lover is taken at sea by a striking pirate  [...]

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Tumbleweeds

Patrick Carrington I skitter across the heat of lonely towns  like a drop on a skillet, stopping only  to smooth myself out in bars  with strings of women  who don’t tie themselves  to lives like mine. There was a time when the prophecy of dust clouds rising  from a young woman’s broom  made me wonder  [...]

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Vote for the best bumper stickers

I went a little crazy designing bumper stickers this week. Proof positive of my love and adoration for PBQ! Remember: any of these can be changed and/or redesigned. So have fun discussing the possibilities…  

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Pirates

 

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Making Place: Betsy Andrews’ New Jersey and John Hennessy’s Bridge and Tunnel

Andrews has Whitman’s ear for litanies of nouns and modifiers, but she also shares Ginsberg capacity for apocalyptic vision.

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Pirate Story

Michael Agresta (Singapore, 1785) The royal ships form a line across the mouth of the harbor, blocking access in and out.  The old hotelkeeper, whose only customers are travelers and sailors, shakes his head at the horror of these pirates.  Even the whores can squeeze a living out of the local menfolk for as long [...]

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Further Adventures Into Private Parts

Arlene Ang 400 pieces of eight for a joint if lost in good company like an evening marrooned with bananas— and all along i thought i was plagiarizing my scent in port royal in the captain’s cabin in his chest of maps—he allowed me to feel around wooden legs allowed me to sleep on that [...]

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January at the Bubble House

Readings:  Lisa Grunberger teaches comparative religions and writing at Temple University. Her chapbook of poems, Root Canal: Love Poems is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada Press (Roxeanne Hoffman, editor, Hoboken, NJ). She has published in such journals as The Paterson Literary Review, Mudfish, Nimrod, The Drunken Boat and The Baffler. Her book, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s [...]

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