R)v Press

Re)verb is a perfect bound poetry mag that reads every style, genre and subject of poetry. To get an idea of what we prefer, and in order to not waste anyone's time (this includes our time and yours) please buy an issue of Re)verb and read all of the great work between the covers.

After checking out different mags from all over the country I realized there wasn't a lot out there that spoke to me. However, there were a few like Pearl (here in Long Beach), Chiron Review (In Kansas . . . sorry to see this one go), Rattle (in Studio City) and Slipstream (across the country in New York) that inspired me. Instead of whining and complaining about the lack of quality (in my opinion) poetry mags out there, I decided to start my own. My main objective is to get the good stuff printed. The first issue of Re)verb went to print in 2001.

Word. Kevin Patrick Lee

sample

garbage trucks are now parked
where my grandparents once lived

by Michael Estabrook

New York City in the Great Depression,
such a dirty place, such a vile time.
My grandparents and great aunts
and aunts and uncles and great uncles
all scratching around
like rats in a trash mound
for mere survival, spending
the little money they'd scraped-up
on alcohol and cigarettes.
And they slept around, too, of course,
with no apparent trepidation,
dragging their weary asses home
in the early morning hours sodden drunk,
irascible, demanding, inconsolable,
pugnacious, nasty, biting,
truly like rats cornered in a dirty cage.
They were born and raised, lived
and worked and bred and died,
in the poorest sections of Staten Island,
where now the garbage trucks are parked.
And all I can figure from this fetid stew
of immoral ignominiousness
is that these people, my forebears,
were so miserable in their ignorance
and poverty, in the barrenness of their
existence, that if it weren't for
being drunk and promiscuous,
they would have killed themselves in despair,
which actually a few of them did.

Originally published in Re)verb Issue 3

©2004 Michael Estabrook

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