A Literary Poetry Journal
Soft Spoken
Vol. 1 · Literary Journal from KB Poetry
Soft spoken words.
Loud enough to last.
A poetry magazine with one issue per poem — fifty covers, fifty rooms of the heart, drawn from years of becoming.
Latest on the shelf
Each issue is a single poem dressed as a literary magazine: photoreal cover, pull quote, and a quiet place to sit with the lines.
Editor’s note
“From a soft spoken wind,”
Namesake poem · Issue 22
These pages keep Clark J. Madsen’s original voice — the shoebox under the bed, the fifty daily praises, the funeral of a former self — and dress each poem as its own magazine number: cream paper, wine and gold ink, stanzaed type, and photoreal covers keyed to each poem’s mood.
About this journalFour rooms of the heart
Moods that color the single-poem issues across the collection.
Emotional spectrum
A stylized reading of tone across the collection.
Collection at a glance
Counts from Knowledge Base Poetry (id 66) — one magazine issue per poem.
Start anywhere
- 01Awaking From A DreamSealed by the sign of a dove.
- 10Fifty TimesBeauty counted past any limit.
- 23Casualties of WarLove as the long campaign.
- 37The Shoe BoxEssay: dust, heart, return.
Source poems drawn from MD Hub Knowledge Base Poetry (id 66). Magazine presentation for Soft Spoken — one issue per poem, photoreal covers.