Welcome to The Gallery at darkcoastpress.com!
Think of The Gallery as an art gallery of great writing from a variety of writers in prose, poetry, essay, and experimental work. We diplay the best of submitted work openly, more like a gallery than a journal, magazine, or review. Come in off the street, read a bit, take its impressions away with you. The menu to the left is arranged by latest published edition, and all authors and featured pieces organized accordingly. Check back monthly for each new edition. Thank you, and enjoy reading!
If you are interested in submitting work to appear on The Gallery we would love to have you. Send submissions by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and please, please, please read our Submissions Guidelines, all the good stuff’s in there.
Chris Stuker grew up skateboarding in Portland, OR. The first artwork that made him want to write was Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row and Adventures in the Skin Trade by Dylan Thomas. Chris attended the Richard R. Tayson poetry workshop at the New School in New York City. He currently lives in Hampton, NH and writes because he needs to.
Belittled
Big smile lofting above
Smart and courteous
Blue cheese kisser
Real tuna sandwich
Rich sunlight
Poor cloud nine never seen it comin'
Great wheat paste poster haunting
Holy day disappointing
Heart pulling back
Songs of rebirth
Nobody there to argue
Not in Public
A woman moans
Little lovers beg
Soft tissue ruffles
Tears for the unborn
Coffee or tea
Beauties loathing
And there are no more kisses in the dark.
