Dispatches From the Basement

I offer poetry that seeks out the sacred in the ordinary, accompanied by original photography. No politics, no hot takes, just poetry.

By Joseph Massey
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“Over and over, I’m compelled to send my favorite lines of Joseph Massey’s poems to all the poets and poetry readers I know. I constantly marvel at his work. Massey’s poems are prayers.”
Sherman Alexie, Sherman Alexie