Dispatches From the Basement

For All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day

a poem for my patron saint

Nov 2 • 

Joseph Massey

73

11

October 2025

For the end of October

a new poem

Oct 30 • 

Joseph Massey

83

7

A small autumnal prayer

a new poem

Oct 23 • 

Joseph Massey

98

10

“Bright beyond alarm…”

from Eclipse Season, a new book in progress

Oct 11 • 

Joseph Massey

61

12

To begin again

an October poem

Oct 6 • 

Joseph Massey

78

4

"After Trakl"

a poem for October

Oct 1 • 

Joseph Massey

13

September 2025

On Michaelmas (with a phrase from Rilke)

a new poem

Sep 29 • 

Joseph Massey

72

8

For the first day of autumn

plus an announcement

Sep 22 • 

Joseph Massey

51

9

An elegy

for Charlie Kirk

Sep 13 • 

Joseph Massey

205

41

Eclipse Season

a new poem

Sep 8 • 

Joseph Massey

63

9

On Migration

from my book Decades: Selected Poems

Sep 2 • 

Joseph Massey

57

5

August 2025

Issue #2

Fletcher, Bök, Riyeff, Cooper

Aug 26 • 

Joseph Massey

35

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