Welcome to Scorched Feathers, home site for Joey Polisena, Cleveland-area author, performer, and artist. Within these pages, you can read my poetry, view performance videos, shop for poetry merch, and access tools and resources to help you create and promote your own artwork.
Newest posts and announcements
- 2nd-Chance Letter
Did you get my letter, its heart-stickered envelope with no return address? Did it arrive? Did you take it inside? Did you guess? When you pulled out the yellow page and realized I was the writer, did you read, anyway? Did you unfold it? Did you feel me? Will… Read more: 2nd-Chance Letter - Off the Path
Dragging shards of my heart across rooted wrists of the forest, birds all singing sad songs under-toe rip me through the chorus, make me mimic the notes yanked through the weeds, the sharp underbrush wrong turn to eerie tones, mud and stone monuments curse what was. I take all my… Read more: Off the Path - Hope Is War
Hope is slow toxic spoonful of sugar candy arsenic sulfur-spark smoke after lighting a wick Hope is narcotic, brain powers, wishes pennies, clovers hope is a charming disappointment Last drop, final thread just wounds and scars left fingertip to ledge last gasp, a breath hope swings and hits
From the Joey Poetry Workshop
Shop for Joey Poetry merch made with love and shipped from my home workshop. You can find the collection of new and upcycled gifts and apparel in the Joey Poetry Workshop. For a larger variety of new products, shop the Scorched Feathers Spreadshop, a third-party on-demand merch-maker. Either way, your purchases are secure and shipped as soon as possible.
Joey Poetry socials
Let’s connect. Find me at the following socials and email.
