Click each image to read the poem:           Adam Overbay is from a small town in Appalachia, now living in Somerville. He is working mainly on a body of poems about his military experiences but he likes writing about other things as well. He is thinking about getting a dog, but [...]

Listen to Julie Baber read this poem.   And what songs there are that must call us all— not the songs of the Sirens’ mouths, those metal-tongued demon mouths of the narrow straight, the seaward fall— but of more tuneless things, as the startled nest-bare rustle of a sparrow’s wings, that rushing which they sing [...]

Boston-based poet Liam Day is currently at work on a series of poems about city bus routes in Boston. Through each poem, Day explores a specific route, citing the ways mass transit exposes its riders, the neighborhoods it passes through, and contributes to an understanding of the city on whole, if only through a more [...]

An excerpt from Seann McCollum’s sequential art poem, Were We Wireless. To read the entire poem, purchase issue one of apt in print or PDF.

Liam Day reads Archaeopteryx and other poems at Literary Firsts. To read Archaeopteryx and other poetry by Liam Day, check the past issues or purchase issue one of apt in print or PDF.