When Apollo finally landed on the moon, I recall the way the imponderable became possibility. For years, I watched them …
Weekly Feature | Behind Closed Doors, a poem by Tom Barlow
Sixty-nine years, yet I’m still dumbstruck when I read about the buffoon and his clown cadre, there behind closed doors. …
REFLECTIONS ON RISING | A Note from Hokis, Founder
I launched as Headline Poetry in July of 2019 due to the kindness and generosity of Line Rider Press. They …
Founder & Senior Editor
“Poetry is a conversation, so let’s talk. My email door is always open, headlinepoetry@gmail.com.” – Hokis, Founder & Senior Editor …
Erasure the Occupant #27 | Story of the Rest, a poem by Chad Parenteau
source of erasure “Read Trump’s Bananas, Post-impeachment Victory Lap Speech,“ Jen Kirby, February 6, 2020 been through a lot …
Roe v. Wade-related | Birth or Death, a poem by Lynn White
Death begins at birth for pro-lifers. The birth day is when interest is lost lost in those post foetal post …
Jude St. Jude
Jude St Jude is a poet of Latino heritage. Born to a Brazilian mother and Colombian father, Jude …
A Midweek REST | Prayers on Our House Roof, a poem by Amirah Al Wassif
We were boiling bananas on the roof of our house. My mother’s laughter clutched the heart of my ears. She …
Three Sixty One
And I have killed you againWith gun, with knife, doesn’t matter.Three-sixty tons of painSure became the town’s chatter. You once …
The Day Before Rome Fell
A caravan of ants bimbled, through stones as slaves made to stand and cheer in a coliseum The masses heard …
necessary distance
You offered up such easy rhymes, a reason for madness, lycanthropy. You pulled the oceans, and gave us signs and …
Terse Verse | Floating in the flat black pacific, a poem by Killah Shark
Floating in the flat black pacific Wetsuit on he sees The police chase on the boardwalk Looking east his vision …