Tag Issue 1 Winter 2017/2018

Lisa Segal – Three Poems

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 were part…

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

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 and publisher,…

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 worked as…

I’m standing behind Billy Zoom on line at the Starbucks. Yeah, I admit it: I go to the Starbucks. I'm...

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

The Thieving Magpie first became aware of the artist Zach Mendoza when it was setting up its office. As a...