"Because I can do nothing but wait I go looking for portents" by Shana Ross Shana Ross is a newcomer to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty 6 Territory. Qui transtulit sustinet. Her work has recently appeared in Great Weather for MEDIA, Ninth Letter, Grain, Literary Review of…

From the new issue of TBKR, by Shana Ross

Smart Search List of the Day The Smart Search List of the Day is: Experimental Poems feat. @sixthfinch.bsky.social @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social @pinehillsreview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/poetry/experimental-poems-E56h6zkw

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Experimental Poems feat. @sixthfinch.bsky.social @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social @pinehillsreview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com

"After The Funeral" by Bhavna Parmar I went to uncle’s house after the funeral —the house was filled with water.I couldn’t see my legs once I entered.People stood on chairs to breathe.Children on their swim rings to stay alive.Everyone…

"in the corner of the living room —

Mom trying to flatten the corner into a straight wall.

I couldn’t hold what was offered to me —

"After the Funeral" by Bhavna Parmar,

"My Neighbor Uses Poison"by Catherine Rockwood My neighbor uses poisonto kill rats. Sometimes foxesindirectly.  He makes a pointof saying he remembers me.Maybe not point. Maybe he can’thelp it. Some recognitions need to be uttered. Or be…

"Some recognitions need

to be uttered. Or be recognized

as need. " @martin65.bsky.social

www.broadkillreview.com/post/by-cath...

From the new winter/spring issue of TBKR

People stood on chairs to breathe. / Children on their swim rings to stay alive.

Two poems by Matt Coonan The Leaving  These pockets of my mind reek of mulch & citronella & the thick flesh of shed flight  butterfly sliced, fed to bubbling oil  & the circadian bebop of night churning  a boxed monster & tho...

"The rest is blintz & valley folded into my

amygdala, like Brianna’s paper fortune teller,

the one that promised a life etched out in shades

of colored pencil." Matt Coonan
www.broadkillreview.com/post/two-poe...

"Someone has written a sign beside the remaining stumps

Be careful where you’re going. And I think they’re right." Ray Carey

www.broadkillreview.com/post/fallen-...

"You taste kerosene in the air,

faint, but unavoidable, a kiss

of sweet, high ozone cuddled

by the sharpest of tangs..." Robert Beveridge
www.broadkillreview.com/post/the-foo...

"I’M GOING TO BREAK! She imagined his egg-head screaming as he took a tumble. His neck was long enough that maybe his egg-head would stay intact, she thought, watching the wrinkles on his throat expand and contract as he talked to her Baba." Narges Anzali
www.broadkillreview.com/post/by-narg...

"When the fruits decay, I must leave you again." Lake Angela

www.broadkillreview.com/post/childho...

"if the clock does not make a sound, if the

skyline descends and hides again in the river." David M Alper

www.broadkillreview.com/post/a-city-...

From Five poems by Jianqing Zheng:

"Somewhere a saxophone’s sob gropes through the rivertown of blues cloaked by the fog."

www.broadkillreview.com/post/five-po...

"when our bodies are softer especially

around the middle, when the little narrow bed

is barely big enough" by Unmana
www.broadkillreview.com/post/i-want-...

From "Drowning Song"
"When I sleep, your song invades my dreams. In my dreams, I see you shake the water, curse the world, and sing—to me." Jason Thornberry

www.broadkillreview.com/post/drownin...

"I Only Drink It Black" by Sarah Sorensen
"IBeyond the window, broken feathered trash. We are not more than this. I want the teeth to come back so I can gaze at them, crooked, hard, and true. "

www.broadkillreview.com/post/two-hyb...

"Climbing stairs to an attic’s musty air, or listening to One Fine Day when brooding alone, the glimmer of firelight on silent afternoons, old school photos, rereading stained letters, all beckon our supposedly irretrievable pasts." Ian C Smith

www.broadkillreview.com/post/insiste...

"Art Blakey" by Bradley Samore after Nat Hentoff *When he drums, everybody is involved in a greatergoing.            On a peak of exultation,Blakey’s crackling rolls announcea groove that opens the pulseto…

Erasure ekphrasis from Bradley Samore
"explosions

change direction, ignite

tenderness"

www.broadkillreview.com/post/by-brad...
from the latest TBKR

"Poem After Failing Another Captcha" by Nico Santana Nico Santana is a Filipino poet from Quezon City whose poetry has been published in Bluestem Magazine, Midway Journal, and TLDTD, among others. Aside from poetry, he likes to write scripts and storybo...

A lovely visual poem from Nico Santana in the BKR
www.broadkillreview.com/post/poem-af...

"After The Funeral" by Bhavna Parmar I went to uncle’s house after the funeral —the house was filled with water.I couldn’t see my legs once I entered.People stood on chairs to breathe.Children on their swim rings to stay alive.Everyone…

"in the corner of the living room —

Mom trying to flatten the corner into a straight wall.

I couldn’t hold what was offered to me —

"After the Funeral" by Bhavna Parmar, most definitely the most patient writer we worked with this winter.

"Because I can do nothing but wait I go looking for portents" by Shana Ross Shana Ross is a newcomer to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty 6 Territory. Qui transtulit sustinet. Her work has recently appeared in Great Weather for MEDIA, Ninth Letter, Grain, Literary Review of…

From the new issue of TBKR, by Shana Ross

"My Neighbor Uses Poison"by Catherine Rockwood My neighbor uses poisonto kill rats. Sometimes foxesindirectly.  He makes a pointof saying he remembers me.Maybe not point. Maybe he can’thelp it. Some recognitions need to be uttered. Or be…

"Some recognitions need

to be uttered. Or be recognized

as need. " @martin65.bsky.social

www.broadkillreview.com/post/by-cath...

From the new winter/spring issue of TBKR

"After The Funeral" by Bhavna Parmar I went to uncle’s house after the funeral —the house was filled with water.I couldn’t see my legs once I entered.People stood on chairs to breathe.Children on their swim rings to stay alive.Everyone…

"in the corner of the living room —

Mom trying to flatten the corner into a straight wall.

I couldn’t hold what was offered to me —

"After the Funeral" by Bhavna Parmar, most definitely the most patient writer we worked with this winter.

My prose poem, Drowning Song, is in the latest issue (Vol 19.1) of the Broadkill Review...

www.broadkillreview.com/post/drownin...

Thank you, @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social!

Winter Spring 2026, Jan 1, 2026 Vol 20.1 | broadkillreview

Our latest issue is dropping a wee bit early. We will be pushing out links throughout the winter/spring!

We open Jan 1st for submissions: poetry, CNF, micro, short story, translation, one act plays, ten-minute plays

Enjoy our newest issue
www.broadkillreview.com

Maybe my favorite poem publication of the year in @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social - this is the result of me taking a nature poetry workshop once lol

www.broadkillreview.com/post/even-th...

We are so honored!

SAVE THE DATE: one week from today...

A Winter's Night Chapbook Reading
👉 Sunday, Dec 7, 7pm ET (Zoom)

Thrilled to celebrate this season of poetry in fab company💙

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.

They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.

Only you have the power to kill it.

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