By Roger Desmarais: Every old house has many rooms and hideaways filled with memories of early growth and expansion through years of development. Though seem...

By Annie Newcomer: Po-Art: Part 1 After meeting Joaquín Zihuatanejo at the Austin International Poetry Festival, I was determined to bring him and his poetry...

By Gillian Kessler: These little poems/notes/spirit signals have been moving through me this past month, chronicling shifts as we’ve moved into the Coronavir...

Flapper Press is proud to present three poems by poet Rachel Holman. Rachel is a New Englander who is developing her style in free form poetry. Her themes in...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Flapper Press is always excited when a new poet comes on board to share their work. Rachel Holman is no exception. She is creative, mind...

By Annie Newcomer: Today, as I continue my North Stars Series, I am honored to share with you a talented and dear friend, Davidson Garrett, who I met in New ...

Flapper Press continues to feature original poetry from our writers and readers. We encourage you to write poetry and submit it to the site. We'll publish it...

By Roger Desmarais: When we are alone in our senior-hood moment of pain and frustrated at its intrusion, we can sometimes, in meditation, find places in betw...

By Gillian Kessler: My mama died at the beginning of this year. Saturdays are now the hardest days. Saturdays, a little before one in the afternoon. She was ...

By Roger Desmarais: There is a lovely wisdom contained in old phrases about life created by the elderly who have lived much of their lives and found much to ...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Flapper Press has afforded me the opportunity to work with talented writers and thinkers from all over the world, and without fail, one w...

By Annie Newcomer: I came to poetry later in life. Or rather, she took pity watching me suffer after the loss of my brother, Prof. John Klier, twelve years a...

By David Van Etten: Review of Exercise #2 In the previous exercise, I asked you to memorize a poem, reverse engineer its verse logic into a series of prompts...

By David Van Etten: Exercise #3: This month’s exercise outlines a tried-and-true set of prompts that I have returned to again and again over the past 25 year...

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By Gillian Kessler: Nikki Giovanni’s “Ego Tripping” is full of fire and grit. This powerful, imaginative work is both hyperbolic and historical, her images r...

By Gillian Kessler: I first read Ruth Gendler’s “The Book of Qualities” when I was a senior in high school. My acting teacher used her personification poems ...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Flapper Press is proud to feature the work and musings of Dr. Roger Desmarais—poet and professional consultant to major firms, governmen...

By Roger Desmarias: When we think of "Hood," we usually do not reflect on the quality or mea of the particular “Hood” we inhabit: "childhood" is too far remo...

By Roger Desmarais: The tides of life relentlessly recreate their shores, moving the boundaries between sand and sea, creating space and opportunity for the ...