Special FeaturerbdApril 30, 2020Adam Deutsch, poetry, special feature

Adam Deutsch: Second Date

Special FeaturerbdApril 30, 2020Adam Deutsch, poetry, special feature

Second Date

Those two, splitting a calzone
in an air conditioned
booth at the Pizza Kings, have
their adolescent prayers,
a fountain soda emptied
in two blistered gulps.
There’s a storm on the sun
that keeps us thirsty, chewing ice.
Somewhere there’s a freezing night,
where faith swings like branches
from a sweet apple’s kernel.
A power pulls eyes open,
some kids work together to drag
a step-stool to reach a shelved jar
of honey and red pepper flakes.
Call it fair countenance: they say a man’s dead,
but then alive and we’re only young sometimes.

Adam Deutsch has work recently or forthcoming in Poetry International, Thrush, Juked, The Cossack Review, Ping Pong, and Typo, and has a chapbook called Carry On (Elegies). He teaches in the English Department at Grossmont College and is the publisher of Cooper Dillon Books. He can be found at adamdeutsch.com and lives in San Diego, CA.

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Special FeaturerbdMay 08, 2018Adam Strauss, poetry, special feature

Adam Strauss: Because I Could Not Stop

Adam Strauss lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Most recently, poems of his appear or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, Typo, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Fence, and Upstairs at Duroc. Favorite poets include, among many, Gwendolyn Brooks, May Swenson, Harryette Mullen.

Special FeaturerbdMay 08, 2018Adam Strauss, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdApril 18, 2019Adam Hughes, poetry, special feature

Adam Hughes: Discovery Channel

Adam Hughes is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently Allow the Stars to Catch Me When I Rise (Salmon Poetry, 2017) and Deep Cries Out to Deep(Aldrich Press, 2017). Born and raised in Central Ohio, he now resides in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains where he is pursuing an MFA at Randolph College. Should you google him, he is not the Adam Hughes who draws near-pornographic depictions of female superheroes. This particular Adam Hughes cannot draw.