lines written with a razor is interested in poetry that relies on guts to carry its message, rather than literary technique. please send your best three poems embedded in body of an email to pumaperl@hotmail.com. 

please note that submissions for lines written with a razor are presently closed.

editor: Wolfgang Carstens

• mother by rob plath
• last thoughts by zach king-smith
• 68 by a.d. winans
• love is by jason 'juice' hardung

editor: David McLean

• fingers bleed all over me by misti rainwater-lites
• four prose poems by matt finney
• keeping it bloody by coleen houlihan
• testament by mark walton
• three poems by luis cuauhtemoc berriozabal
• six poems by anthony hitchin
• three virgins by melissa hansen
• dead old guy in a casket by karl koweski
• two hits from a hash pipe by d.c. porder
• from there to here by melanie browne
• dreams of nothingness by bruce whealton
• five new york poems by puma perl
• two poems by david blaine
• three poems by joseph veronneau
• a pair of poems by zachari popour
• bend in the air by george anderson
• a primer on finding god in the details by nathan tyree
• wallow by marc carver
• rebel disorder by joseph m gant
• five poems by john grochalski
• limp by zach moll
• two poems by erek smith
• two poems by john christopher sweet
• life by david m myles
• the passion by rich harris
• liar's tell by yvon cormier
• it all rolls downhill by glen lantz
• sunspots by laura lehew
• weekend raver by p.a. levy
• this is how i came to be by lena judith drake
• two poems by joseph goosey
• two poems by a.j. kaufmann
• decade by si philbrook

editor: Puma Perl

• o hideous wordsmith unhand my linen by george wallace
• fermentation by j. bradley
• baby by patricia carragon
• dummy by scott orris
• dharini mehta by jack henry
• Like Marilyn by andrew taylor
• My Kinda Boy by lori williams
• Banana Scream by fred dasig
• On the Avenue by barbara moore
• queer birds by john dorsey
• Ready to go at dawn by peycho kanev
• Jett in the Black Leather Coat by cyndi dawson
• There Are No Last Words (Parronville Prison, VA) by dan lear
• dad's floaters by yvon cormier
• A non-love, non-fuck poem by lena judith drake
• American Soul by craig fishbane

Wolfgang Carstens, David McLean