Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney