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Joyland Poetry is a partner site of Joyland Magazine. We’ve chosen several editors to select poems and works by authors connected to locales across North America.

New York

We Were Swallowed, We Became the Garbage & They Set a Trap

Drew Gardner

WE WERE SWALLOWED What if we were vomited up by the cosmic unicorn with great lumps of flesh, gobbets raw and books you can't get rid of? Am I the one who's already closest to full health in the...

Vancouver

The Dammed (exerpt)

Doug Nufer

There is a line You can never step on twice Where the Duwamish runs Green The Puyallup Stuck White The Cedar Falls Where barracuda go to die But salmon leap To spawn forever In the...

Consulate

carnival (for artificial voices)

Helen White

By night the road unravels and we return. To endless identical living rooms. Sleeping pills, electric toothbrushes. In holding pens for surplus poplulations. Outside the trees are scratching the air...

Montreal Atlantic

Two Poems

Robin Richardson

Second Annual Symposium of Indignity The lobster with its boiled glow knows nothing of the hostess by its tank. Her first grey caught in lip gloss as she shows a schizophrenic to his usual booth...

Los Angeles

The Secret Index of the Past

Kim Calder

The Secret Index of the Past 1 What you claim to know succumbs to the whore Once upon a time. The materialist needs a present in which time takes a stand, comes to a standstill. In...

Toronto

"The Great Wave" & "HAPPY B’AK’TUN!"

Sachiko Murakami

THE GREAT WAVE I thought I was that disaster. The rowers – all they thought was shore, what lay just beyond the terror of my hands. They didn’t know I was reaching out to return a favour. ...

Midwest

excerpts from a story spelled u&i

Cassandra Smith

U&I KEPT CARDS AROUND THE HOUSE, FROM PLACES IT HAD ONCE BEEN IMPORTANT TO SEE. u&i alone in a forest were the only subject of all of these cards, alone on a wall in a forest...

Prairies

Four Visual Poems

Eric Zboya

Statements on Images In 1941, science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein published And He Built a Crooked House. The story’s premise lies in the protagonist’s utilization of mathematics to create a...

San Francisco

Your San Francisco Giants, I don't like Funk & The Westerfeld House from RAVE ON!

John Sakkis

Your San Francisco Giants Too many teeth in this apartment and it’s starting to seriously bug, I’m a magazine man soliciting 21 Grand, a house-organ thesis cul-de-sac porn dollar day bobble-head...