THRU Magazine Archive
Poems by Anthony Ritchey night return television mother (goodnight my son) wife bottle brother (first & last lovers) * * * allow me to be with you in this box in my hand allow me to show you my work my life, my dreams, pathetic. * * * marriage, fear of solitude alcoholism, the inevitability […]
A Poem by Arlo Voorhees It’s a world of sacrifice, ain’t it buddy? Of course you knew that when you hung up your traveling sneakers and shelved your wild notebooks in favor of mortgage payments, carpools, and ultrasounds. I’ve been a liar all my life, so these things come late like poems, or boyish epiphanies, […]
I am everywhere I am sitting on your head I am raining on your home I don’t even try I shower but I smell I keep mum but I shout I chipper ‘good morning’at your placemate he mumbles inaudibly in return I play my music and I play it loud the birds seem to sing […]
The 5th Annual Oak Street Art Show offers celebration and a much-needed dose of inspiration for one young man. It was sometime in the winter of 2013 that I found myself caught in a position of personal confusion. A stressful year of academics and tumultuousness had left me tired and ready for a break from being a theater […]
Celebrating National Poetry Month, Thru Magazine will publish poems every Friday in April. Commencing the commemoration of the is Jen Scholten. Prerequithoughts: an ongoing, ever-expanding collection of poems. I. Pipe dreams — man, of me of us roving desert hills, chilling mountaintops with stares that stop them dead; winds dreading us. Can’t we figure in […]