My father’s shame for never having fought. Three draft-age brothers in lottery.I […]
Wendy Chen
I did not knowhow to touch, to be touched. My body a scrap of parchment, reflectionin the well, […]
Mary Immaculate by Amanda Auchter
2022 AD When everything started, the newscasters saidall would be back to normal soonerthan later. Now the […]
The Shores of Babylon by M. Cynthia Cheung
Bruce Bond is the author of thirty books including, most recently, Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, […]
A Folio of Poetry by Bruce Bond
NASA confirmed a meteor exploded over Pittsburgh like thirty tons of TNT. Some thought it was a bomb. […]
Displacement by H.E. Fisher
Stefania Gomez is a queer writer, teacher, and audio artist from Chicago’s South Side who received her MFA […]
A Folio of Poetry by Stefania Gomez
Thistlesscary and beautiful the bud like a globe each leaf […]
Artichokes by Patrice Boyer Claeys
For Judith Through a thick winter windowI stare at a locust tree—willing it to bud, to performexactly […]
Our Quiet Spring by Barbara E. Murphy
Ayelet Amittay is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and poet in Eugene, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Michigan […]
A Folio of Poetry by Ayelet Amittay
You didn’t own anything, yet —not name, a breath, a spoon to lift to your mouth. I drew […]
Imaginary Son: Creation by Amanda Auchter
Until the body becomes a flower, knowing its curvature in space. An acceleration of speed, a pushing away […]
Something about vibration and sensory neurons by Barbara Berg
Almost as if the stars were being blurred. How the word decay sits and moans. It wasn’t deliberate, […]