Poem by Michael Patrick McSweeney
"two cats passed today" for Peter Caulfield the edge of the bed is colder now. you & I place our palms on the spot where two cats once gathered to [...]
3TV Presents: Ivan De Jesus and JP Lime
What You Need JP Lime Baby What You Need Hook We got what you want... It’s what you want... Can’t you see? Why can’t you see? What [...]
A Poem for Joe Gouveia by Neil Silberblatt
Mother's Day After the rough muslin was removed from the mirrors and her shoulders, she returned the wooden benches, which she used when she sat for her husband and now [...]
A Poem for Joe Gouveia by Jake St. John
For Joe Gouveia The news began with a soft rumble the kind a Harley makes when it’s hidden by the horizon and out of view soon memories of the poet [...]
Stone Soup Servings Presents: Blaine Hebbel and The Wild Women of Lynn
Stone Soup Servings is a regular series for Oddball Magazine that features upcoming performers at Stone Soup Poetry, the long-running spoken word venue in the Boston area that has recently [...]
3TV Presents: Elizabeth Gordon McKim
Penelope's Talkin' Blues For Odysseus I first saw you Odyss Comin’ out of the boxcar’s side Holding onto Adam’s rib It can not be denied I testify [...]
It’s All One Thing #27: Tex Mullen’s Classic Polish Nurse Vs. Himmler’s Lust for Polish Children
It was one of those things you never knew why you did them but I sat down by Tex even though I could see he was in his cups and thinking [...]
Poem by Jack Powers
Van Gogh Soliloquy this I have to offer you without a tree I am pinned and bleed remarkably painless The shred of ear still pink blood hot on my neck, [...]
Poem by Seth Howard
Public Bath in Seoul The money meant nothing to me I didn’t know how much it was worth Fingers fumbled through my leather wallet, when she Asked me to pay, [...]
Jagged Thoughts #25: Writing Poetry Is a Solitary Event
Writing Poetry is a solitary event People may be around you But really you are alone only With your words Your depression Your tendencies to gravitate Outdoors hopefully till you [...]
Stone Soup Servings Presents: Dennis Daly
Stone Soup Servings is a regular series for Oddball Magazine that features upcoming performers at Stone Soup Poetry, the long-running spoken word venue in the Boston area that has recently [...]
Please Excuse Our (lack of) Appearance
We apologize for our lack of posting since Friday, as our staff got caught up in the happenings of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival this past weekend. We will be posting the [...]
Today’s The Day! Oddball Magazine At The 2014 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Come to Our Panel at The 2014 Massachusetts Poetry Festival Stone Soup Presents Oddball Magazine Friday, May 2, 2014, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room Salem Massachusetts In 2013, the long-running [...]
It’s All One Thing #26: Memorial Labyrinth
Jack Powers, in the form of an urn all dark and wonder colored which somehow still contained his ashes, fell upon the stage floor and then his portrait seemingly in [...]
Poem by Jack Powers
Howdy Hibbings you can’t get the bubblegum out of your hair even with a music-minus-one score for clarinet which you whistle between runs for the flourishing numbers racket or delousing [...]
Poem by Kerry Zagarella
Poetic Heroes for Jack Powers A poem is always forced to begin yet words are not a birth announcement poetry is not a baby picture of wonder and purity of [...]