LitKicks has been inviting poets — that is, everyone — to submit their work on this site for public review and response since 2001. Here, once again, is a randomized display of many favorite poems published here in 2010.
World BEYOND War: A New Podcast
Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera 
Some people have asked me how Action Poetry works on Litkicks. It’s so simple. You read other people’s poems and post one of your own, and other people do the same. This month’s illustration is a wire sculpture of a mule by sculptor and spoken-word poet Mark ‘Wireman’ Coburn. Now, please write us a poem!
An old Litkicks friend, Clay “Lightning Rod” January of Texas, died of cancer this week. If you hung around this website during our message board years, there’s no doubt that you remember Clay. He was one of the best writers on the website, the owner of a sly and subversive voice. I interacted often with …
It’s springtime! How about writing a poem? This page is open for anyone to contribute a short or long poem, on any subject or idea, in any style, or to respond to anyone else’s poem. Please use the comment form below to post a poem.
Some people think Literary Kicks is a blog. That’s because I pretend it is. However, I only started to describing Litkicks as a blog in the mid-2000s, by which time the site had already gone through a lot of changes. No matter what format Litkicks is in, it is always for me a part of …
The secret to creating great and enduring websites, I’m pretty sure, is to have the nerve to launch stuff that’s totally not ready. This is something I’ve always been good at. If you’ve hung around Litkicks for any amount of time, you know I’ve been trying to launch a new version of our long-running Action …
Sometimes I find it hard to believe that my blog is almost twenty years old. Well, sometimes I also find it hard to believe that my youngest daughter is almost twenty years old. (They were born the same year, and they both grew up so fast.) Literary Kicks will turn twenty on July 23, 2014. …