[T]he value which we attribute to our own civilization is due to the fact that we participate in […]
Emma Bolden
When the two men in unicorn suits walk into the Exxon, Irma Jean wants to laugh but doesn’t. […]
Men Dress as Unicorns, and You Won’t Believe What Happens ...
In his The Enlightenment in America, historian Henry May points out one of the big problems of digging […]
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This time, the story writes itself. You’re in the grocery store and someone passes by with their cart. […]
The Next Story by Carol Guess
“This world is being made from our lives, our cries, our laughter, our bones. It is a world […]
Women Who Run with the Words: Meads, Farris and Chinquee ...
Mark scans the chalkboard for anything edible. Behind the stainless-steel counter, Joe wears a hairnet over his bald […]
Showtime by Anthony D’Aries
The New Kid (1962) The new kid, bigger by a head than even the tallest girl, Maryanne, who […]
Excerpt from True Confessions (and brief dreams) in a Time ...
The first time I went with Estrella into the woods, my mother was still alive. Earlier that day, […]
Falling Triptych by Dale Trumbore
This book could have been written only by a poet of long life and experience. As the reader […]
On Paul Nemser’s A Thousand Curves: A Review by Aline ...
The first sound I heard emerging from the pages of Elizabeth Metzger’s prize-winning collection, Bed, was a cry […]
Beyond Dread: A Review Essay on Elizabeth Metzger’s Bed by ...
A book of poems is a curious thing. Quite different from a novel, it seems to be closer […]
Love Poems Not for the Faint of Heart: A Review ...
W.J. Herbert’s Dear Specimen is full of apostrophe; these poems address, in absentia, the “you”s of trilobites and […]