Two Poems in the Bitter Melon Review

 

Hello all, here are two poems to read on a Sunday summer evening:

After Fantastic Obsessions

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Medium Trouble in Chinese Cottage, about an old Chinese place I used to visit on the Upper West of America's greatest island, Manhattan

From the Mouth of an Underdog

 

Pessoa approves

Azarão lit journal has published a poem of mine: Grave Silhouettes

"Don't Worry About the Background. Just Go for the Tonal Values"

Metphrastics a publication based on poems inspired by the art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  has come out with its Summer 2025 issue

And wouldn't you know it, one of my poems is in it, called The Tonal Values. It's influenced by a painting from Edouard "Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?" Manet, pictured here.

Take Two Pills and Holler in the Morning

 

Two poems by an up and coming poet whose work I admire in the Pill. 

The Freak Hope of an Infinite Rise

 

Step right up, step right up, here are two poems by Ben Nardolilli in the first issue of Ascendancy Magazine