Published in: Philadelphia, PA
Notes on this Issue:
Hello,
We’re Verses From the Underground,
We’re a small poetry publication originally started in Orlando, Fl. We’re new in town, but we’ve been doing this for almost two years now. We release monthly issues and distribute them for free. We accept (and are always craving) submissions—information for submissions can be found on the second page of each published issue and on our social media.
Usually there is no particular theme for each monthly issue, but, given that this is our first release in Philadelphia (and I don’t want to give you all a slew poetry-genre-glarb-type adjectives to describe what sort of work we release), this issue is dedicated as a retrospective for the past two years of our publication—a curated selection from all of our previous issues.
I’m looking forward to hearing back from you readers and writers. Please remember the following:
If you think your poetry is bad, submit it. I’m happy to read it. I respond to everything. And,
If you think your poetry is good… it’s probably bad, but submit it. I’d still love to read it.
- W.B
Authors in this Issue:
Walter Bickle
Dick Warlock
Jeremy T Connor
Arthur Mudd
Luciano Coelho
Clara Ashby
June Ankrom
Trevor Payton
Nate Roma
Poems in this Issue:
W.B.
I’m an Asshole
I’m a Pervert (But One of Common Taste)
All Poets Lie
Ode to My Chair
Take a Penny, Leave a Penny
Summer Feels Like Death: A Response
Ode to the Lustful 20-Year-Olds
All the Men I Love are Dead
Side Street
On a Simple Thing: Brown
5 Haikus
I Have a Handle of Vodka
D.W.
Junkie for Love
The Finer Things in Life
Summer Feels Like Death
Even Hell Has its Heroes
Jesus Wept at a Carnival
Trampled Under Foot
Wet Dreams
Mexican Starweed
Jake
J.C.
memento mori
getting drunk, farting, mostly shit
this habit
5 Haikus
A.M.
the outsider artist
too much
L.C.
No Subject (Portrait Series)
C.A.
The Spider & The Rose
J.A.
Stalker
T.P.
Attachment Issues
N.R.
But the Volume Stays
Thanks for reading.