Jagged Thoughts #60: Drum in symphony/Drum together
Each of us is separated by electric pauses... epic starts, and stops. Breaks in the sentence… A world caught in the Space of language, The words are planets The weight [...]
Three Beers For: A Politically Correct Holiday Season
The holidays are upon us and the choices of beers are a many. Gone are the days when we are left with only Christmas beers and Winter warmers to help [...]
A Twist of JP Lime #3: Turkey and Football – A Thanksgiving Football Poem
Oddball Magazine is proud to welcome our friends at JP Lime Productions and introduce the hard hitting and well crafted talents of the JP Lime crew. We hope that bringing [...]
Three Beers for: Vermont 100 Edition
Ah the beer road trip; a journey to parts that hold glass upon glass of gold and brown liquids. Wondrous sudsy liquids that make even the most manly beer lover [...]
Oddball Magazine’s Parade of Poets Poem by Jake St. John
Old Highway Blues On days like this when the remaining patches of snow melt and the green grass begins to pop through and only seems green because we haven’t seen it [...]
Oddball Magazine Parade of Poets Presents Philip Larrea
Closing Time I leave some paper on the bar. Thank my Host for a pretty good time. All work for Him, I know. I pretend we are on good terms, nonetheless. [...]
The Oddball Hour With PB n’ J, Episode 3: Bill Barnum and other Shout Outs
Our most timely post yet as Chad Parenteau and Toni Bee relate a recent message regarding Bill Barnum as well as tease features at Stone Soup and other venues for the [...]
Valentine’s Day Massacre Presents: Lindsey Bellosa
Thanks to everyone who submitted to our Valentines call for submission. We gave poets the option to submit a theme of either love or anti-love. With the first post, Lindsey Bellosa, [...]
It’s All One Thing #14: Thoreau
Now that our culture has made nature into an ornamental fetish I wonder what Thoreau would think of the mobs that people Walden Park. The pond, after all, meant solitude to [...]
Jagged Thoughts #12 The Song Remains The Seized
Who will read this? I am not sure if my tempered words hit hard Or are ever heard I am not sure if what I do makes a difference Or if [...]
3TV Presents: April Penn
2053 In the year 2053, I will be 67. 2053, that is also the number of nuclear bombs detonated between 1945 and 1998. More than a hundred years [...]
Poem and Artwork by Emily Rudofsky
Genesis Was there ever an Eden of wildflowers and stone fruit? Ever an Adam of dusted sinews made? A naked pair entwined, Ever a dance of sun-delight? That holy roundness we [...]
Stone Soup Servings Presents: Zeke Russell
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 partnered [...]
A Special Jagged Thought Dedicated to Joe Gouveia by Jason Wright
10 Angels (A New Journal) I hope you find healing in these words my friend. For Joe We suffer for something. Makes us strong. A stitch in the fabric [...]
Jagged Thoughts #3: Missing Dad
I miss my dad I need to talk to him again I realize life is short And good times we've had In the past Maybe I'll call him Update him on [...]
Poem by C.C. Arshagra
© 2013 Ira Joel HaberKissing You Hear as my silence is (PART I) You are the proof of love lives And the end of lonely is the completion of alone You [...]
A Kick in the Teeth by Rachael Ieszenberg
Everything in this room is movable Except for the pit in my stomach And I sit there wondering what if If you hadn’t met her Her with those blue eyes And [...]
Jagged Thought #2: Stuck
Stuck in the mud I'm stuck In the mud Not dumb but wish I Could be someone Realistically Statistically Idiocy is my History Where Nothing matters But whatever I'm writing sentences [...]
The Undead Are Banging On Our Doors by Chad Parenteau
It's relaxing to shuffle on once sulfurous-sored feet my back no longer aching though stiff as this hard oak door. I'm in feed-mode. I see through cataracted lenses. I rend with [...]
Two Zombie Limericks by Chad Parenteau
There's too much undead in the room. My boomstick no longer goes boom. My shirt now has a stain that just might be my brain. There's one more undead in the [...]
Two Zombie Poems by Chad Parenteau
Roommate Of Zombie Tries To Say I, uh, just ate the plums half-rotting in the fridge which, uh you were probably never gonna eat I'm sorry-- wait what are you d- [...]
Jagged Thoughts #1: The “3” Tattoo
The "3" Tattoo Jason Wright I have portraits in my memory I thought I could always hold on to. I guess it’s not a single person I am writing to, but [...]
Eating Poets by Chad Parenteau
Eating Poets Chad Parenteau Similes slobber like intestines from my gut. There's no profound zombie like me. I have been eating poets. The alpha zombie doesn't even have a clue. [...]
Stone Soup Servings Presents David R. Surette
© Jennifer Davidson Marshall Stone Soup Servings is a regular series for Oddball Magazine that features upcoming features at Stone Soup Poetry, the long running spoken word venue in [...]
Stone Soup Servings Presents Martin Willitts, Jr. and Linda Griggs
© Jennifer Davidson Marshall Welcome to a new regular series for Oddball Magazine that features upcoming features at Stone Soup Poetry, the long running spoken word venue in the [...]