The Dirty Napkin is an online literary journal that was created in August 2007. It seeks to publish the best Poetry, Fiction, and Letters in four issues a year. What are the best poems, fiction, and letters, you ask? Well, thankfully we have a rather wide submission base and so we get to approach this question fresh with every issue.
This issue includes:
Letter from the Poetry Editor • Christopher Goodrich
Love is a UFO • Howie Good
Notes on Empathy • Howie Good
Fiery Objects • Ethel Rohan
Postcard from the Realm of Grief • Robert McDonald
Exes • Jessy Randall & Daniel M. Shapiro
The Woman is a Clock • LeAnna Crawford
Self Exam • Connie Post
The Mother Visits the Oracle • Barbara Paparazzo
The Threshold Is Still Pulsating • Barbara Paparazzo
Saturday Afternoon Nap • Barbara Paparazzo
George: October 2008 • Laurel Elizabeth Zeiss
Requiem for a Dead Possibility • Suzanne Richardson Harvey
Love Scene, Shot with Mosquito and Ant • David Essinger
bridge collapses into the mississippi • Connie Post
Fish Heads • Daniel Robinson
Traveling Poem • Susan Minyard
Get • LeAnna Crawford
Pear • Karen Greenbaum-Maya
The Shock of Old Women Nude • Terri Brown-Davidson
Ruffled • Therese Gilardi
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Cicada • Terri Brown-Davidson
He Told Me He Had a Dungeon in His House • Buzz Mauro
Larry Walters @ 16,000 Feet • Peter Funk
The Invention of Heterosexuality • David Brennan
Laos: 10 December 2008 • Michael Chirillo
Untranslatable • Buzz Mauro
Madison Community Pool • John Cheddar
The Dirty Napkin is an online literary journal that was created in August 2007. It seeks to publish the best Poetry, Fiction, and Letters in four issues a year. What are the best poems, fiction, and letters, you ask? Well, thankfully we have a rather wide submission base and so we get to approach this question fresh with every issue.
This issue includes:
Letter from the Poetry Editor • Christopher Goodrich
Love is a UFO • Howie Good
Notes on Empathy • Howie Good
Fiery Objects • Ethel Rohan
Postcard from the Realm of Grief • Robert McDonald
Exes • Jessy Randall & Daniel M. Shapiro
The Woman is a Clock • LeAnna Crawford
Self Exam • Connie Post
The Mother Visits the Oracle • Barbara Paparazzo
The Threshold Is Still Pulsating • Barbara Paparazzo
Saturday Afternoon Nap • Barbara Paparazzo
George: October 2008 • Laurel Elizabeth Zeiss
Requiem for a Dead Possibility • Suzanne Richardson Harvey
Love Scene, Shot with Mosquito and Ant • David Essinger
bridge collapses into the mississippi • Connie Post
Fish Heads • Daniel Robinson
Traveling Poem • Susan Minyard
Get • LeAnna Crawford
Pear • Karen Greenbaum-Maya
The Shock of Old Women Nude • Terri Brown-Davidson
Ruffled • Therese Gilardi
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Cicada • Terri Brown-Davidson
He Told Me He Had a Dungeon in His House • Buzz Mauro
Larry Walters @ 16,000 Feet • Peter Funk
The Invention of Heterosexuality • David Brennan
Laos: 10 December 2008 • Michael Chirillo
Untranslatable • Buzz Mauro
Madison Community Pool • John Cheddar