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Apr 23, 2023
Tricia Knoll
Private Urgencies Made Public – a phrase from Adrienne Rich’s Usonian Journals, 2000 We wait to have blood drawn. Anonymous, masked...
Apr 23, 2023
Sheila Wellehan
A Pipe Burst Trauma is water. You bear it easily when it fills a pitcher. You cope. You don’t jump at the odd noise or the too-familiar...
Apr 23, 2023
Matthew Carlin
Summer 2009 I still haven’t read Augustine. C. K. Williams In the dark, I feel it, that empty space of right here, this moment. It’s June...
Apr 23, 2023
Martha Clarkson
My Uncle did not Like Children it was understood though he had his own he sent me a rat on my sixth birthday a pet not a taxidermied...
Apr 23, 2023
Anna Wrobel
Fathoms They were not so much parents as they were History my siblings but remnants and me the 'New American' as vague as I was specific...
Apr 23, 2023
Leslie Ullman
Little Soul Remembers before coltish legs outgrew their swiftness and supple lines before the body lost communion with beast and tree,...
Apr 23, 2023
A Review of Elegiaca Americana by Claire Millikin - Jeri Theriault
The title of this collection, elegiaca americana, casts the entire book as an elegy for American culture, with poems offering commentary...
Apr 23, 2023
HeadLines w/Jocelyn Ulevicus
Flower Party Jocelyn Ulevicus is an American artist, writer, and poet. In her visual work, you'll often encounter colorful & energetic...
Apr 23, 2023
Michael Hettich interviews Jim Crenner
As an enthusiastic but unfocused third-year English major at Hobart College, in the spring of 1973 I took a poetry-writing class from...
Apr 23, 2023
Oz Hardwick
Quality Control It’s thirty years since I worked in the factory but there are still calluses on my palms, there’s filth beneath my nails,...
Apr 23, 2023
Jim Crenner Retrospective
three recent poems referred to in the interview FAILURE TO MOURN The phone call from the hospice, where my friend had been hovering for...
Apr 23, 2023
The New Book from Michael Hettich
The new book from our good friend and associate editor, Michael Hettich is now available for pre-orders. In The Halo of Bees: New &...
Apr 23, 2023
Editor's Notes
Simplicity is not an end in art, but we usually arrive at simplicity as we approach the true sense of things. – Constantin Brancusi I am...
Apr 23, 2023
Table of Contents
Editor's Notes Head Lines w/Jocelyn Ulevicus Betsy Sholl John Warner Smith Jody Stewart Robert Carr Alex Barr Dave Sims Hope Jordan David...
Apr 14, 2023
Hope Jordan
Song For My Grandchildren After Joy Harjo I’m rethinking everything. The disposable medley of drywall, upholstery, spice packets piling...
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