America on the brink of war, 1940, and my father born on a dairy farm turned […]
Kristina Marie Darling
A Process Note Laura Frare and Mary Kathryn Jablonski have known each other for many years as artists; […]
These past few days of freezing rains by Laura Frare ...
Those Little Anodynes manages to weave family history (a connection to Emily Dickinson) with an unverifiable […]
Judge’s Citation by Nick Flynn
Drying my hands with a paper towel, I glance into the mirror. My blue silk blouse– […]
Charms Against Touch by Debra Nystrom
It’s no work at all to destroy the past once the thing is in motion In […]
Sasquatch by Elsbeth Pancrazi
You sink in your puny bed. Six feet of you. Less. Your head, dotted with age […]
In Between by Anne Gudger
There’s a fundamental difference between showering when it’s raining and showering […]
Basic Hygiene by Kara Candito
Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1975, Michael Dickman, his twin brother Matthew, and his younger sister […]
“‘It’s all so strange, writing poems’: A Conversation with ...
Death taps his black wand and something vanishes: winter tongue of the dear, the dead; tongue […]
Grief Rows: The Best of 2012 by Jackie White
The daughter fell into the raft of mallards, an impatient tortoise rising from beneath. Theirs was […]
Avoiding the mirror beneath an oak means you disappear, too ...
The guys would leave us behind and go out hunting in their pickup truck. Us girls […]
The guys would leave us behind by Daiana Henderson, translated ...
Falling, parachutes hiss: windgrammar is tears salting the bridge from reason. Memory, green leash, flags in […]