VOICES FROM THE FIRE #1

Dumpster Fire Press is proud to announce the first release for National Poetry Month… VOICES FROM THE FIRE volume 1…. Spotlighting voices heard, seldom heard or never heard at all. First featured on the VOICES FROM THE FIRE series , we’ve got poets , writers and artist spanning from here, there and everywhere in-between… of courseContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE #1”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson

I’m a Riverboat Boy, Poem on Halsted Street   As sure as church bells Sunday morning, ringing on Halsted and State Street, Chicago, these memories will be soon forgotten. I stumble in my life with these words like broken sentences. I hear and denounce myself in the distance, mumbling chatter off my lips. Fragments and chips.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Dillinger

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Tanner

meat like him lonely? oh aye – he’s got: no job. no friends. no girl. the benefits office boots him out after he’s signed the forms. the jobcentre tells him to get back out there. his local boozer is full of couples and families, and any singles in there are usually too young and/or outContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Tanner”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Grover

The Last Poem Of 2020  It’s the final hour of twenty-twenty & I don’t think Poets are gonna save us Most of them last seen bragging on facebook About winning a fixed fight Afraid to look at the corruption In their own ranks Pyramid goes up to nowhere But it sells big dreams But IContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Grover”