Lisa Segal is a poet/writer/artist and past contributor to the Thieving Magpie (Issues 1 and 3).  She has lived […]

My shirt and jeans are off.
I’m undressing.
I’m closing this day down.

Los Angeles native Robert Adan Williams is a teacher, photographer, writer and world traveler. The photos featured here […]

504 North Beverly Glen: where I spent seven of the happiest years of my life. When we moved there in 1952,

the privateer at my door
salty gatekeeper guarding my treasure
with brass bones

In Poem #15, “Constantly Risking Absurdity” from A Coney Island of the Mind, the great San Francisco poet […]

The Sadhus along the Girivalam Road

Milton James earned his B.A. in English from U.C.L.A. and his MLIS from San Jose State. He has […]

I’m standing behind Billy Zoom on line at the Starbucks. Yeah, I admit it: I go to the Starbucks. I’m not too cool for the Starbucks. Does that make me a sellout? Billy Zoom goes here! And he’s a rock star!

Your house has carpets
like hands, like the tongues of whales
licking me to nothing but a bone