Dear readers, OccuPoetry is taking a (hopefully brief) hiatus. During that time we will not be accepting new submissions to the journal. We plan to resume receiving submissions and publishing later this year. The editors are taking this time off … Continue reading
OccuPoetry is now accepting submissions for its fourth issue, which will be released in the summer of 2014. With roots in the Occupy Wall Street protests and encampments, OccuPoetry is a journal of unabashedly political poetry. Poets, always in the … Continue reading
OccuPoetry’s third issue is now available as a PDF. A free download, Issue 3 includes poems published at OccuPoetry’s website from June 2012 through December 2013. With this publication, OccuPoetry is once again open to submissions. Download your copy here, or flip … Continue reading
October 24, 1929 Douglas Nordfors It’s said a murmuring rose from the crowds of men both outside and inside the Stock Exchange, a mur- muring like subdued fire crackling just like cows moaning or slaughtering their own horror, trying to… … Continue reading
Bars Margery Parsons Bars of sunlight stripe rooms. Outside trees teem with birds and the hum of insects on streets graceful and quiet. Bars of music rise from computers, boxed Pandoras safe to open with arms full of songs and … Continue reading