Running with the Bulls

No throngs of spectators lining the streets.

No streets! Gravel driveway to gravel road

and a single participant, sober as a farm boy can be,

in tenuous balance over rutted pasture,

PoetryBoyd BaumanJune 23, 2024Poetry

The Surfer Knows

The surfer sits, straddling the board, slowly moving up and down with the swell as mountains of green water shift beneath in the unfathomed deep.

PoetryRohan BuettelJune 23, 2024Poetry

We Were Athletes

Even if it grieved you to see us—

spindly, meager,

each joint bigger than its limbs.

PoetryMorrow DowdleJune 23, 2024Poetry

Love Poem for the Beam

I love the purple of a roller rink

from the future

PoetryMeghan HarrisonJune 23, 2024Poetry

Hydrants and Hoses

The hydrants are open—

roll the windows up

and approach the spray,

clear that all joy-filled screams

would be drowned out by the

Water. Pelting the windows.

PoetryHannah WilliamsJune 23, 2024Poetry

Grotto Soul

For Brook Lopez, Center

Up here in stadium section 207, you are ordinary

seven-foot man mountain. L.A. native slope

of bluff ribbed rock.

PoetryLora KellerJune 23, 2024Poetry

The Act

I remember you as God in a fold-out lawn chair.

Clipboard, stopwatch, lemonade at your elbow.

PoetryDanielle HubbardJune 23, 2024Poetry

a classic

Halfway through an alley

smoke & a classic third

quarter Knicks collapse,

the kid upstairs who shit

PoetryAlex Wells ShapiroJune 23, 2024Poetry

the Under Review is an online literary journal committed to publishing literary fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction with a sport slant, nod, backdrop, or undercurrent.