When the actress invited me, she was hiding in a large house in Kansas, moving from room to […]
Prose
About halfway through the text of Tension: Rupture is a painting from Michael Haight’s Alcoholic Crepuscule series that […]
Cutter Streeby and Michael Haight by Abby Walthausen
Pune Dracker is a writer, editor, and digital communications strategist specializing in animal welfare. She recently earned her […]
How Low We Could Go by Pune Dracker
The performative nature of the collection is evident from the first prose; Framework : a Vessel introduces the […]
A Review of Tension : Rupture: Artifacts of Memory ...
His name was Rodrick and they called him Roddy. He was fourteen, a little short for his age, […]
A House in the Woods by Jerry Whitus
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 ...
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 ...
The first time I went with Estrella into the woods, my mother was still alive. Earlier that day, […]
Falling Triptych by Dale Trumbore
W.J. Herbert’s Dear Specimen is full of apostrophe; these poems address, in absentia, the “you”s of trilobites and […]