When you left Guatemala. Crossed the border Into Mexico. With your father or How there was a smuggler. Who Too…
Poetry
New Poetry from Aaron Graham
PIXELATED WOMAN, WEBCAM SHADE Pixelated woman, even your shadowI know as my lover.It whispered.Ash-white dry-erase li…
Poetry Review: Aaron Graham’s BLOOD STRIPES
1. I’m reading Aaron Graham’s war poetry. And I think violence is a volcano. How pressure builds. Between layers of r…
New Poetry from Michael Chang
the secret life of simon & the whale the boy inches close to the water &…
New Poetry from Edison Jennings
A Letter to Greta “…so pitying and yet so distant,” Cecil Beaton Among my father’s posthumous flotsam recently …
New Poetry from Abby E. Murray
Gwen Stefani Knows How to Get Everything I Want It takes a misdelivered Cosmo to finally understand what I want and h…
New Poetry from John Milas
Parade the Beef “I declare this meat tasty and fit for human consumption.” – President of the Mess, CLR-27, Lan…
New Poetry by Antonio Addessi
You’d caught
the big one they said, you’d hooked a willow and
sank thigh deep into the muck. They hung up…
New Poetry by Aidan Gowland
Breathless If you say “I am not a monster” Into the mirror and turn around three times A better version of you…
New Poetry from Liam Corley
In Which I Serve as Outside Reader on General Petraeus’s Dissertation [The current version of the Army’s Field …
New Poems by Alex Pitre
Slurry The bones had been surrounded by years of suppression, political amnesia, and walls of loam that contained not…
New Poetry by Denise Jarrott
manhunt will I always be poor always a slowing of small pittings where roots were milkweed meadowsweet rue or …
New Poetry from Shana Youngdahl
After the Maine Tin Min Company Prospectus, 1880 The earth has veins we can open with our hammers. Follow the cassite…
New Poem by Eric Chandler: “The Path Through Security”
my family lived there before it was Maine before this was a even a country they still live there so we visit we fly i…
New Poetry from Frank Blake
We came home And had nothing to do and nowhere to go and too much freedom and money and space and women and cars and …
The Hundred-Year Itch, or Remembering The Great War
Here are some facts about The Great War. It started in 1913. We know that from books. and the scarred nobles grandma …
New Poetry by Amalie Flynn for the WWI Centennial
Zone Rouge (for the centennial) 1. When the land was. 2. Full of bodies dead. And twisted. 3. When the fighting was. …
New Poetry from Randy Brown
victory conditions My father taught me to say I love you every time you stood in the door left for school went to wor…
New Poetry from Nicole Oquendo and James A.H. White
The following poems are reprinted with permission from the anthology Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando (Damaged …
New Poetry from D.F. Brown
So, Who Wants to Walk Slack? Because we have no home in language We keep memories there As if the past were true And …
New Poetry from Janaya Martin
More Than Twice She said you better hush before he comes back in here like she knew who she was talking to but didn&#…
New Poem from Jacob Siegel: The Old Gods
The Old Gods (No. 9, 2003) I. The towers bloomed up in the dark Like nails scrolling from dead fingers While around t…
New Poetry from JD Duff
Night Flash You’ve been having nightmares again. The cruel shaking of a body resisting slumber. Hands twitching, ches…
New Poetry from Yuan Changming
[anagrammed variations of the american dream] A ram cairned me In a crammed era [where] Cameramen raid A dire camera…
New Poetry by Sherrie Fernandez-Williams
she be like, damn she be all tired. she be like a flattened house shoe she be full of compunction she be remembering …
New Poetry by Liam Corley
A VETERAN OBSERVES THE REPUBLIC AND REMEMBERS GINSBERG America, I’ve given you all, and now I’m le…
New Poetry by Lynn Houston
You Leave for Afghanistan If I’m writing this, it means I can’t sleep and that the rain outside my window drops blind…
New Poetry By Abby Murray
13 WAYS TO APPROACH A THREE-HEADED DOG I. Those who tell you to carry raw meat have never met me. Bones are better, t…
New Poetry by J.E. McCollough
Kintsugi The breaks on my soul Are only ever repaired Slowly. Old pieces Of the broken bowl, Fixed Back into their us…
New Poetry by Lisa Stice
Headstrong I’m sorry catches in the throat and bruises in that wavering hesitation like a rock falling …
New Poetry by Amalie Flynn
POLLINATE When I dream about the words They fall from the sky. Dropped From planes that hover and the Words are dropp…
New Poetry by J. Scott Price
Captain Who? That gut-black October night, a security patrol set out: a platoon of Afghans and two of us. They…
New Poetry by Aaron Wallace
Blackhawk Truck 2 is hit, and they’re calling for the medic, and I’m out of my truck kneeling next to the driver – I …
New Poetry: “Layla’s first buck” by Denise Jarrott
her father said it was his favorite thing about her, that she was a hunter, like he is. she holds its head up for the…
New Poetry: “What Great Grief Has Made the Civilian Mute” by Jennifer Murphy
To watch soldiers load into planes on television To ignore veterans who manage to make it home To cry out when an air…
New Poetry by WBT Editors
This special September Poetry & Fiction issue brings you poetry by WBT Editors Adrian Bonenberger, Drew Ph…
Poetry: “A Beautiful Day to be Buried” by Julia Wendell
The sun was shining violently, as if on a mission to see beneath the surface of things. Our cortege wormed its way pa…
New Poetry by Maurice Decaul
U S Grant on the Disbanding of the Iraqi Army I heard thunder in the mountains witnessed soft amber lightening in the…
Poetry: “Last Night I Prayed for Rain” by Mary Carroll Hackett
solstice moon rising early, joining me to wait for the short night, long sun. Last night I prayed for love, for what …
New Poetry by Yael Hacohen
Fortitude Seven times I’ve been to the Wall to scribble my prayers and fold them into the seams in the yellow s…
New Poetry by J.J. Starr
Concerning whether or not I am a horse I strap torso & press arms to diaphragm with breath deep the distressed vo…
Poetry: “Departure” & “Respite” by Justice Castaneda
Departure Once upon a time, I know I had a plan. Going to come back, finish the conversation. Keep all of the …
Poetry: “Nostos” by T. Mazzara
i. the deadweight of a crooked hook we crossed any strange boundary in our youths. all amongst some hitch in what aug…
New Poetry by Randy Brown
Toward an understanding of war and poetry, told (mostly) in aphorisms Poetry is the long war of narrative. Poetry, li…