Peggy Liuzzi Spring flounces in hemmed with lacy snowbanks, crowned with twigs of unsprung green. Peggy Liuzzi lives in snowy Syracuse, NY where she practices Tai Chi, walks her rambunctious beagle Maizie and always treasures signs of spring.
Read MoreJ.R. Solonche On the Passing of Charles Simic You said poets can write on anything, a toothpick, a rat on the subways tracks, a fork, but, Charles, Charles, I can’t write a poem on your death. J.R. Solonche is the author most recently of Selected Poems 2002-2021, which was nominated for the National Book Award […]
Read MoreWendell Smith Fractal Caveat for Donald Lawderand our siblings in obscurity The best poemsare sung and lost,form and vanishlike fingers of frost,which come to crazethe edges of pondson early morningsof late autumn days. Wendell Smith is a retired physician who thinks we would all be healthier if we would read Ramon Guthrie’s masterpiece, “Maximum Security […]
Read MoreLarry D. Thomas Bedtime Peeling Band-Aids of thin air to wrap the cuts of imaginary friends, she tells me to be careful with her electric blue Day-Glo bucket because it’s full of sky, leans back against my chest, tickles my nostrils with pigtails, and falls asleep turning crumpled pages magical with poems and animals. Larry […]
Read MoreDoug Jacquier Johannesburg My host and his friends scoff at our rugby team and our cricket team and our barbecues as the smell of burning meat from the braai chokes the air and the roaring flames reflect from the compound’s razor wire. Doug Jacquier‘s poems and stories have been published in Australia, the US, the […]
Read MoreKarina Borowicz Bridge Work It’s done at night so we can’t see how easily splendid things crumble and the other side depends on the suspension of our grief. Karina Borowicz has authored three poetry collections: Rosetta, Proof, and The Bees Are Waiting. karinaborowicz.com
Read MoreSam Norman Guilt When rain touches dusk, and air settles heavily on the barren fields, the ghosts appear to chastise the left-behind. Author of Still Here, Sam Norman is a fifty-six year old high school teacher and lives with his wife Teri, kids Bec and Dan, and a whole bunch of chickens in Coventry, CT. […]
Read MoreJ.I. Kleinberg We Believed Artist, poet, and freelance writer J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.
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