Old Man Still Howling at the Moon

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No More Animal Poems
Marc Vincenz's Strange, Pugnacious Ecological Bestiary
Oct 27 • 
Peter Johnson
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Can Poetry Save Us?
Fear and Trembling in an Apathetic Country
Oct 20 • 
Peter Johnson
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Dispatches from Terra Incognita 4 and 5
Two New Dispatches Published in Plume Poetry
Oct 6 • 
Peter Johnson

September 2025

"Light" by Peter Markus
A Prose Poem and Commentary
Sep 29 • 
Peter Johnson
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4
Assholery Revisited
And Satire as a Possible Antidote
Sep 22 • 
Peter Johnson
3
4
Hungry Ghosts, a New Book by Bruce Smith
And the Poetry of Witness
Sep 15 • 
Peter Johnson
3
5
"Lips," a Flash Fiction
A Man-Behaving-Badly Story
Sep 8 • 
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4
"Some Other Species of Love" by Christopher Kennedy
A Prose Poem and Commentary
Sep 1 • 
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August 2025

Three Prose Poems from Cassandra Atherton
Along with a Commentary on one of Her Favorite Poems
Aug 25 • 
Peter Johnson
8
1
"Bitter Angel" by Amy Gerstler"
Prose Poem and Commentary
Aug 18 • 
Peter Johnson
3
5
Four Prose Poems from While the Undertaker Sleeps
That Foreshadow Our Troubled Times
Aug 4 • 
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2
Robert Perchan's "Neanderthal Hotline"
A Prose Poem with a Commentray
Aug 4 • 
Peter Johnson
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