Category: Poetry
Poems by Jonas Sidell
Jonas Sidell returns to Gadfly with two more poems: lamenting, peering inward, a reflection on the stripped down feeling that…
Shani’s Boobs: A Poem
What was once an embarrassment can occasionally become a source of pride, though perhaps still a distraction in most cases.…
Killing Tuesday: A Poem
President Obama's Kill List, a compendium of people targeted for assassination, has led anti-war activists and civil libertarians of all…
The Huntress and the Chasm: A Poem by Ari Margolies
Gazing into the abyss, the abyss gazes back also, inviting and enticing. The chasm and the huntress tease our narrator…
A Poem by Thomas C. Burgess
Thomas C. Burgess included a note with today's poem. He said, "This poem is meant to raise questions about society,…
Poems by Dan Hedges
In my view, vital poetry has to do with wordsmithing that packs reverent aesthetics into a complex semantic charge. I…
A Poem by Tyler Kutner
Absurd. Surreal. These are words that could describe a line like "Opening myself to orange diamonds / I color the…
A Poem by Chelsea Blakely
If you do not understand the number 86 as a verb, you've probably never worked in food service. If an…
Letters from Chicago, Volume II: Bursts of Inquiry
I was hovered over a trash can outside Walgreen's fiddling with a book of stamps I bought for nine dollars…