• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Painted Bride Quarterly

  • About
    • About PBQ
    • People
  • Issues
    • Current Issue
    • Past Issues
    • Print Annuals
  • Podcast
    • Latest Podcast
    • All Podcasts
  • News & Events
  • Submit
  • Shop
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Contributors
  • Current Issue

Poetry 91

Charles Carr: I am being stalked

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

by French toast with bananas and Nutella. Any type of egg lusts after me. Bacon, sausage, a stack of pancakes their lips dripping maple syrup. Crème brulee, filet mignon, camembert cheese, pasta with pesto tease and a gin and tonic sat down beside me last night as I ordered a Pellegrino with a twist reminiscing […]

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Issue 91, Poetry, Poetry 91 Tagged With: Charles Carr, Contributors 91, Poetry, Poetry 91

Nellie Bridge: Placing an Order

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

He wanted a bagel, but I heard him say “Good morning, Marcia. Could I have, uh, everything?” Then a man comes in and says, “I want an everything. With cream cheese.” Before I lived in New York, I didn’t know it was all right to ask for what you want.

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Issue 91, Poetry, Poetry 91 Tagged With: Contributors 91, Nellie Bridge, Poetry, Poetry 91

Mel Bentley: Tonight We Are Delighted

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

    We are delighted at the atomic level. We are delighted once again after many years. We are delighted to be joined. We are no stranger. Where we overlap we have become children. When we are excited, we move, and our movement produces a lubrication that is most like money, a wooded feeling, grainy. What can […]

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Issue 91, Poetry, Poetry 91 Tagged With: Contributors 91, Mel Bentley, Poetry, Poetry 91

Jacob A. Bennett: The Pugilist

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

[I don’t think of myself as violent, but] be yes peaceful the change in the world you want [sometimes I want to fucking punch things anything real fucking hard] but bring some close friends and fold yourself in among the mushti [something that hurts something I can feel later something that can take it] courage […]

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Issue 91, Poetry, Poetry 91 Tagged With: Contributors 91, Jacob A. Bennett, Poetry, Poetry 91

Holly Teresa Baker: To an ecologist

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

Hey there. Elephant here. Saw you picking through the bones of my dearly departed. S’okay, no biggie. Just thought maybe you’d want a hand —a tusk— to help you turn the soil. Guy was a jackass anyhow. Not that you knew.

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Issue 91, Poetry, Poetry 91 Tagged With: Contributors 91, Holly Teresa Baker, Poetry, Poetry 91

Lisa Andrews: Some Things My Parents Said

February 5, 2015 by PBQ

Sometimes I think people kill themselves when things are at their best. Sex is like dynamite, it can explode in your face. When a man looks at a woman, he thinks of only one thing. If a man and a woman love each other very much, then God decides. Some women are very fertile, there’s […]

Filed Under: Contributors 91, Issue 91, Poetry, Poetry 91 Tagged With: Contributors 91, Lisa Andrews, Poetry, Poetry 91

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 7
  • Go to page 8
  • Go to page 9
  • Go to page 10
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Recent News & Events

PBQ March Slam Session!

PBQ @ the Pen & Pencil!

PBQ Slam Session!

Slam Session with PBQ!

PBQ @ Poetry Tent!

© 2020 Painted Bride Quarterly. Contact PBQ: info@pbqmag.org