Literary as hell.
Callum Lofts is an emerging actor and writer based in Sydney, Australia. He has been a regular contributor to online magazine Yeahnah.tv and been featured on Thought Catalog. He recently toured Adelaide for their Fringe festival with his comedy show, Maverick and Ferris’ Eight Steps to SUCCESSP. He recently has been offered a place at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he will attend in early September.
Follow him on twitter here: @callumlofts
Foiled Again
just pretend to listen
to the sound of
sound advice
and nod affirmatively
when being scolded
by the scalding
heat of another person’s
hot air
spoken with either
the ether like pitch
of a helium inhaler
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Our second finalist in the Furious Gazelle’s President’s/Valentine’s Day contest is a poem by Jari Thymian.
Jari Thymian is a full-time volunteer in state and national parks around the US. Her poetry has appeared in various print and online publications including Orange Room Review, FRiGG, Prune Juice Journal, Simply Haiku, and The Pedestal. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Web.
Aaron M.P. Jackson is the former Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ, he has twice been a recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation. His writing often reflects his dual heritage, with a focus on themes of love, urban existence and all things dog. For more information please visit middlepoet.com.
Below, read two new poems by up-and-coming poet Christina Murphy.
Christina Murphy lives and writes in a 100 year-old Arts and Crafts style house along the Ohio River in the USA. Her poetry appears in a range of journals and anthologies, including, most recently, PANK, La Fovea, StepAway Magazine, Pear Noir! and Humanimalz Literary Journal. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for the 2012 Best of the Net Anthology.
A new poem by Suki Spangles. See more of her work at http://sukispangles.blogspot.com/.
Two new pieces by Howie Good. “Come Evening” and “Press Enter to Continue.”
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Middle of Nowhere (Olivia Eden Publishing). His latest chapbooks are Echo’s Bones and Danger Falling Debris (Red Bird Chapbooks). He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely.
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