Jeri Theriault
Girlhood I keep coming back to the Virgin who entered via DNA & lodged in my growing organs like the cache of pearly ova nestled in my...
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Oct 15
Annette Sisson
Deep in Milkweed My grandfather shuffled his family to a few sloping acres he’d wrangled in the country, a crudely ...
Oct 15
Erica Reid
How to Skin a Deer Your guess is as good as mine – I am the baby of soft city slickers, but my papaw would have known. He grew up...
Oct 15
Kimberly Ann Priest
Ecofeminism Is it an age thing? Or a money thing? You see, I’ve forgotten the romance of berries. The round, full fruit of desire en...
Oct 15
Christine Potter
…And Transfiguration The classical LP your mother let you to pick daily— just one—for the twenty minutes you were home to eat deviled...
Oct 15
Manthipe Moila
Jacaranda mimosifolia You have given up your abandonment the way a boy jumping into a river gives up his shoes. You have given up your...
Oct 15
Amelia Martens
Mid-Winter, Far West Kentucky I am a series of ghosts; the bones in my ankle creak my ascent and descent each stair, a platform ...
Oct 15
Carl Little
Grapefruit After halving the pink-hued fruit using skinny knife to cut around wedges and taking up appointed spoon to slip...
Oct 15
Tara Mesalik MacMahon
From Baghdad and Kraków—Fact, Fiction, Query, Plea I. They are right heres,...
Oct 15
Susanna Lang
History shows a woman crouched by the river with her two boys, breadcrumbs in their palms, half a dozen goslings drawing near and...
Oct 15
Kate Kearns
Mushrooms Can Consume Nuclear Waste Without a taste, not a tingle, no trace of that namesake cloud. It cannot be said enough: they root...
Oct 15
Heather Jessen
Not Ready for the Coda Pluck the star, the heart, the reindeer, unhook the horse, the bells and baubles, wind up the skeins of twinkling...
Oct 15
Holly Iglesias
Holly Iglesias has published three poetry collections—Sleeping Things (Press 53), Angles of Approach (White Pine Press), and Souvenirs of...
Oct 12
Oz Hardwick
Oz Hardwick is a European poet, photographer, barely-competent bass guitarist, and accidental academic, who has been described as a...
Oct 12
Diane Gottlieb
Omens ~ after Danusha Lameris The morning of the evening of my husband’s fatal crash out of seventy-eight tarot cards I picked the...
Oct 12
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Where Language Ends After Keith Leonard How can a single language carry a pitch- perfect word? A color parade dozens of nuanced...
Oct 12
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Aubade in 21st Century America Last night, walking for chocolate-studded ice cream, we talked about gratitude— slippery son-of-a-gun—...
Oct 12
Allison deFreese
Signs To Sarika after Bashō You ignite air when signing, when palmar bumps palm, when the thumb skips pebbles over the index in the dry...
Oct 12
Mark DeCartaret
All The More Reason for Sid Hall There’s no theme here. No me to remaster, stream into the sea. And nothing to tame into meter....
Oct 12
Janine Certo
After Divorce Then the foot with its haughty arch becomes hill with a girl. Run, run, one finger along the horizon. Then the shin with...
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