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Linebreak is a weekly magazine of original poetry with a unique audio component. Each of our poems is read and recorded by a poet other than the author.

17/10/2017

Want more poetry in your inbox? Of course you do. Check out this new weekly roundup by LB editor Johnathon Williams.

The Poesy Machine is a computer-assisted curation of the most popular poems and poetry-related news shared around the web each week. Our trusty algorithm finds which links are trending, ranks them, and then, with a little help from our editor Johnathon Williams (), bundles them up for y...

28/06/2017

New today, a poem by Luke Hankins.

Drunk and faltering in my midnight chair, someone gripped me by the …

05/04/2017

A new prose poem from Jason McCall.

— Title quotation taken from Colson Whitehead’s “John Henry Days” John Henry …

23/03/2017

A new poem from William Brewer.

Oblivion is liberating. Our names pi**ed into piles of coal ash. The …

15/12/2016

https://linebreak.org/poems/ink/

The first time I ever watched something die, its eyes / opened at the last lived moment, death’s first.

01/11/2016

New today, a poem by Ryann Stevenson

https://linebreak.org/poems/near-a-definition/

I welcomed the woman. / I put a towel on my bed / and lay down.

22/09/2016

Today, a new poem by one of our favorite poets about one of our favorite actors.

https://linebreak.org/poems/abe-vigoda-dies-94-not-hoax-orlando-sentinel/

First he was, then he wasn’t, now he is. Always / and forever.

15/09/2016

A new poem today by Cate Lycurgus

https://linebreak.org/poems/dysthymia-stagnant-traffic/

the exit’s not marked Post- partum Seasonal Psychotic or the often merrier …

06/09/2016

New today, a poem by Maceo J. Whitaker

https://linebreak.org/poems/sons-star-speller/

My son’s the baddest lad in Sunnyside, Queens. My son roughed up …

30/08/2016

A new poem today by D. Nurkse, with a reading by Nomi Stone.

https://linebreak.org/poems/style/

Shattered by he**in, Mal Waldron listens to his own records so he …

19/07/2016

Today, a new poem by Brian Spears.

https://linebreak.org/poems/elegy-an-email/

Fw: sad news My son, A man you knew twenty years ago …

12/07/2016

Today we have a new poem by Elisa Gabbert:

https://linebreak.org/poems/the-day-after-christmas/

The day after Christmas, a late morning walk. Otherworldly mist over the …

01/07/2016

New poem today:

https://linebreak.org/poems/stitches/

Twice they opened me and twice, after sewing me shut, they said …

23/06/2016

https://linebreak.org/poems/storm-warnings/

After Adrienne Rich All night the wind’s been fiddling for the coup …

14/06/2016

https://linebreak.org/poems/the-wolf-in-the-trailer/

The wolf in the trailer, tired of drinking every meal, licked the …

31/03/2016

New today at Linebreak, a poem by Kaveh Akbar.

https://linebreak.org/poems/the-fight/

This should make me more worried than it does—you un******ng soft as …

17/02/2016

New today at Linebreak, a poem by John Poch, with a reading by country singer Terry Allen.

https://linebreak.org/poems/the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleader/

When the Cowboys cheerleader cheers for a body it is her own …

11/02/2016

New today, a poem by Chloe Honum.

https://linebreak.org/poems/offerings/

I have saved my pantomime of the sky for you. Let me …

20/01/2016

New poem today: Homologue by Laura Bylenok. https://linebreak.org/poems/homologue/

I’m a person who knows what’s going on. See. I’ve already had …

13/01/2016

New poem today by Kai Carlson-Wee:

https://linebreak.org/poems/corn-fires/

Fields of junked cars. Fields of horses. Fields of semi-trucks hollowed by …

05/01/2016

Sam Sax provides our first poem of the new year, with audio by Richie Hofmann.

https://linebreak.org/poems/description-for-police/

what did the suspect look like? the sound a shadow makes breathing …

16/12/2015

If you haven't heard Leon Stokesbury read this poem about Johnny Cash playing Folsom Prison, you're missing out. Written by Seth Abramson.

Poem text: https://linebreak.org/poems/cash-at-folsom/

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronknight777/4205975163/).

https://soundcloud.com/linebreak-806695784/cash-at-folsom

A poem by Seth Abramson, read by Leon Stokesbury.

15/12/2015

New poem today:

https://linebreak.org/poems/miss-nebraska-dissects-a-shark-for-science-education/

It’s a misleading headline, as she never holds the scalpel Just bobby …

10/12/2015

From our recent archives, a beautiful poem for the holiday season.

https://linebreak.org/poems/muslim-christmas/

It sat downstairs on the air hockey table, its shedding needled branches, …

09/12/2015

Today's poem is written by Rochelle Hurt, with an amazing reading by Katie Nichol.

https://linebreak.org/poems/self-portrait-in-needmore-indiana/

As expected, after the wedding, the house became a cough we lived …

02/12/2015

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02/12/2015

You won't want to miss this one. Our latest poem, written by Joe Wilkins and read by Geoffrey Brock.

https://linebreak.org/poems/explain-wolves/

OR-7, also known as Journey, is the first confirmed wolf in western …

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