Category: The Daily Odyssey
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Another Poet Already Told You by Liam Cregan
Liam Cregan is an undergraduate English Major at UMass Amherst. He has been writing poetry for a few years now, and is concerned with meaning constructed by illogical mental realms. He moonlights as a musician in the band shakusky. Burlesque on Crutches A bricklayer is different than a layer of bricks. Lack of formal training…
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Another Dream by Jessica Van de Kemp
Jessica Van de Kemp is a 2014 Best of the Net nominee and is the author of the forthcoming chapbook, Four-Coloured Memory, from Bitterzoet Press. Her poetry appears most recently in: Vallum, Written River, Hermeneutic Chaos, and Naugatuck River Review. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Waterloo. Another Dream…
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Dei Profundis by S. Roth
Sy Roth is a retired school administrator and has finally found the sounds of silence and the time to think whole thoughts. This has led him to find words and the ability to shape them. He has published in Visceral Uterus, Amulet, BlogNostics, among others. Dei Profundis So I hock a loogie, gray sticky mass…
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Poetry by Carmen Guzman
Carmen Guzmán is a Boricua writer living in the “area that stills preserves some sort of puertoricanness to it” in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She graduated from Boston University with a degree in Film and Television in 2013 and has been making TV shows for someone else’s entertainment ever since. Something broke. Fix me. something broke, in her mind,…
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Taking Shots Alone 3 (Excerpt)
Phillipe Martin Chatelain founded In Parentheses. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at The New School in NYC. He has self-published two chapbooks in the taking shots alone series and has been published in several online and print publications. from taking shots alone: “A short description of the content of this project is given by…
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American African
Paix Robinson, 26, professional artist, writer and model raised in Oakland, CA, currently residing in Harlem, NY. After high school, Paix (pronounced Packs) attended the Ailey School for professional training in modern, jazz and ballet. His studies also include a major in Theatre Arts & Dance with a minor in French at CSULA along with…
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Prose by Joseph Edsall
Joseph Edsall is a middle school Language Arts teacher, web writer for NewRetroWave, and musician currently residing in Pennsylvania. His work has previously appeared in so glad is my heart and Kutztown University’s Shoofly Literary Magazine. You’re riding shotgun because Danny wanted to drive and control the radio and his steering wheel controls both.
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Wandering Madonnas by Travis Cohen
Travis Cohen is a Miami born writer currently living in Los Angeles. Travis is a graduate of Vanderbilt University’s creative writing program and a regular contributor to the Miami New Times. He has been working on a collection of poems and stories, as well as his first novel, “Trouble Republic.” Wandering Madonnas I met a…
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Poems by Richard King Perkins II
Richard King Perkins II is a state-sponsored advocate for residents in long-term care facilities. He lives in Crystal Lake, IL and is a three-time Pushcart nominee and a Best of the Net nominee. In a six year period, his work has appeared in more than a thousand publications. Special Water A mind exposed to onlookers, indecency preserved. Your…
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Visual art by Vakseen
Drawing inspiration from women & popular culture, Vakseen’s collaged-influenced paintings evolve around society’s idolization of beauty, the enhancements women endure to obtain this level of “perfection” & the impact this has on the female species. To view his #Vakseenart visit VakseenArt.com.
