Poetry

Deer Medicine In night white with birch and moon your heart hears hooves  crossing its wide...

PUBLIC DECREES All is transparency, rose red in the black white squares of dawn, ...

NavigatorA hawk head of a sun.Neck line & forearms,wind hushed redfrom the grip of the unexpected heat. I watch youin this...

INCIDENT IN AISLE 5 I was almost as tall as the shopping trolley,  I could...

THEME FOR ARTHUR And, As close as poetry can take you  To the heart of any matter,...

LONG-HAUL No water-bottles now –  to reduce single-use plastic, offset...

PLATO AND THE PEPSI CHALLENGE Plato frowns up at me from the pages of a dusty old...

Meghan Purvis's translation of Beowulf was published in 2013 and won the 2011 Times Stephen Spender Prize for literary translation.

Guinotte Wise writes and welds steel sculpture on a farm in Resume Speed, Kansas.

Dorie LaRue is the author of two novels, three chapbooks of poetry, a full-length collection of poetry.

Bhodi Tims' The Acoustic Properties of Ancient People was published by Finishing Line Press.

John Patrick Robbins . Is the editor of both The Rye Whiskey Review and Under The Bleachers .

George Franklin's Traveling for No Good Reason was the winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions competition in 2018

Stephen Schwei is a Houston poet with Wisconsin roots, published in Wax Poetry & Art, Beneath the Rainbow, Hidden Constellation, Borfski Press, and the New Reader Magazine.

Carlene M. Gadapee is a high school English teacher in northern New Hampshire.

Taipei  In Taipei I saw a man in starched white shirt  and khaki shorts squatting on...

Michial Farmer's poems have appeared in St. Katherine Review, Artis Natura, and Relief

Isobel Cunningham's poetry has appeared in Rat's Ass Review, The Lake and Silver Birch Literary Review.

Combustion This Virginia heat is killing me.        ...

David Dephy is the winner of the 2019 Spillwords Press Poetry Award for Publication of the Month.

Eliana Vanessa participated 100,000 Poets for Change (2018) and served as part of a panel of poets in The Jane Austen Festival (2017, 2018, 2019).

KAREN PETERSEN has traveled the world extensively, publishing both nationally and internationally in a variety of publications.

Luis Berriozabal's latest chapbook, Make the Light Mine, was published by Kendra Steiner Editions.

Sonnet on waking To see the image in the mirror takes more courage than I have this...

Flight I have been rowed across the Volga and seen the sun breach the waters. Gone in...

Amphibian Post-MS, my legs are clumsy, half-numb. Dumb to earth’s unevenness, I stumble to the shore. Half-in...

Jade Riordan is an Irish-Canadian poet, an undergraduate student, and a selection committee member (poetry reader) with Bywords.

Carolyn Martin is the poetry editor of Kosmos Quarterly: journal for global transformation.

Grant Guy is a Canadian, writer, illustrator and puppeteer. Currently he is the artistic director of the Circus of Objects.

Mike Lewis-Beck works and writes in Iowa City. He has pieces in Alexandria Quarterly, Apalachee Review, Big Windows Review, Cortland Review, Chariton Review, Guesthouse, Pure Slush.

Daniel lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His poems have been in Spoon River Poetry Review, Columbia Journal, Cream City Review, Western Humanities Review, and others.

Gary Glauber is a widely published poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist.

WATERING THE FLAG I heard the plant growing, our recent household purchase a Dracaena, the plant growing to...

JP Mayer is an emerging writer and a current senior at Brown University, where he studies classics and literary arts.

The Wave Theory of Grief Two ducks bullet overhead, fire over the lake where a hawk circles, darker than the albatross...

Kathleen Holliday's writing has appeared in The Bellingham Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Common Ground Review and Soundings Review.

HONESTLY? I mean what I say. Look! Hand on heart.  Am I not a man of integrity? Do I not have...

Glen Armstrong edits Cruel Garters, a poetry journal. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and Cream City Review.

The God of Winter Solstice Solstice, and the moon is targeted, ringed,  first with bright moonlit cloud, then with blood, then ...

Pebble Palace The king of puppets carries his slave on his shoulder Are your feet happy in...

THE MAN WHO WALKED AWAY FROM HIMSELF One day, I am not sure when, my father walked away from...

Acedia  I will remember for you some life when I was young. Cicadas plagued our summer home then, Singing us...

School milk You had to drink it whether icky from the sun or slushy with pale blue ice You were told  to...

IDLENESS It’s the things I see with my eyes closed  when I indent myself to be present and my hope becomes...

Isis at the Christmas Do The usual forced festive yuletide scene of Staff Welfare day. Beauty and Health...

GHOST IN AN EMPTY CHAIR Sometimes it is just a flap of wings in a lonely meadow, or...

MOON INSIDE There’s a waitress full of cookies And a keeper of this café Who’s arranging leather...

Procrastination  I can do it anytime, or never at all  Myriad the mind's vacillation and  Undying languor or apprehension  How the...

APOCALYPSE The day the world ends I get up early, go downstairs, swear at cats, stroke cats. I put on...

IT IS NOT THE TELEPHONE it is not the telephone it is the stove with its...