HOOT POSTCARD 67, APRIL 2017
Othodontia by Allie Marini Allie Marini is a Floridian ex-pat living in the Bay Area with her partner, who is a more successful poet but Allie’s not into name-dropping (Too L.A.). Allie’s written some books, been nominated for some prizes, & exists in a nightmarish hellscape of student loan debt for an MFA that she’ll […]
HOOT POSTCARD 66, MARCH 2017
Walk the long way around from library to chapel by Nate Pritts Nate Pritts is the author of eight books of poetry, including Decoherence. He lives in the Finger Lakes region of NY state. [natepritts.com]
HOOT POSTCARD 65, FEBRUARY 2017
Cold War By Kierstin Bridger Art by Michael Pagdon Kierstin Bridger is author of Demimonde (Lithic Press 2016) and All Ember (Urban Farmhouse Press). She is editor of Ridgway Alley Poems and has a new podcast: Poetry Voice with Kierstin Bridger and Uche Ogbuji. Michael Pagdon is an illustrator in the Tri-State area. His work includes freelancing, as well as gallery showings of futuristic robots. His work can be […]
HOOT POSTCARD 64, JANUARY 2017
Chicken Weather by Caesar Kent Caesar is a semi-nomadic California poet, living around the Bay Area and dividing his time between open mic stages, dive bars, and clouds.
An Artist’s Perspective on the Literature of Passion: White Heat
Under tan, stained skin This blood screams for it Like the whistle from your teapot Taste me you’ll taste the truth Wasn’t made to wait I was made to make Take, tear, sigh, leak for this Drip Drip Lips pulling my skin inside You – me – him – you too None of us […]
HOOT POSTCARD 62, NOVEMBER 2016
Poem by Brennan Bestwick Brennan Bestwick writes from the Flint Hills of Kansas. His poems have been published in THRUSH, Winter Tangerine, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of a 2016 AWP Intro Journals Project Award.
HOOT POSTCARD 61, OCTOBER 2016
Cup of Moon by Andrea Farber-De Zubiria Andrea Farber-De Zubiria’s poems have been published in Cargo, Smoky Blue, Foliate Oak and The San Joaquin Literary Review. She lives in Fresno, CA with her husband, daughters and a fat flock of chickens who prefer Haiku.
a millennial prayer
may our grams be insta-liked, our fingers knuckle crack scrolling scrolling our eyes seeing everything and nothing, may our texts be addressed promptly, no three mean dots stuck between I love you (or whatever) and I’ve already forgotten where your birthmarks live, may we find purpose on a park bench overlooking a city we’ve […]
HOOT POSTCARD 60, SEPTEMBER 2016
Above Me by Renée Hamlin Renée Hamlin is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. Some of her recent positions include supplemental instructor, intern, poetry editor, and—always—relentless daydreamer.
The Gold Spike
I lived in Las Vegas from summer 1991 until September 1992. My first husband was Air Force, stationed at Nellis. We got married my senior year of college (the first gulf war helped me into a bad decision) and I moved out west after I graduated. We lived in an apartment complex on N. Nellis […]
