Free Verse

Three New Poems by Julia Horwitz, Cassandra Cervi, and Sara Barnett from Beautiful Losers #1

Denny’s
By Julia Horwitz

– Artesia & Aviation st.
– pull in & slip by
– gas pump & park
– quickly

Basement Guy by A.S. Coomer

I’m a basement guy
surrounded by performers.
They want to stand up here,
before you,
and present;
make you
feel
the words,
live them. 
I’m a basement guy
in a league of actors.
I write words,
inky black things brought bloody and screaming into the world,
 in a dimly lit, dingy…

Say You Will Remember Me, A Poem For St. Valentine, and The Rawest Shit You Ever Did Eat

By: Ben John Smith

Say You Will Remember Me
 I always wrote poems 
 But I never told anyone 
 That I wrote poems 
 But one time when I was…

A Broken Bed, and Bodega Beer

By: Phillip Giambri

Why I Don’t Call Myself a Social Darwinist Anymore

By: Alfonso Colasuonno

Sticky

By: Lauren Rubin

And the glass
 Shattered just so
 Sticky in the floorboards
 Stuck between
 You are
 Nestled…