Alisa Golden Then There Is the Scar Some trees, growing from within shed their outer skin in continuous, vulnerable glow, while others hold tight to their bark, crack their thick layers, prompting a question, in both cases, about you. Alisa Golden reads a paper newspaper at breakfast, walks her inner dog daily, and edits Star […]
Read MoreAlisa Golden Riptides Combing through tangles, shattered crunch of homes gone, we wade in with rolled clothes, not knowing how long we can hold our breath while we rebuild. Alisa Golden reads a paper newspaper at breakfast, walks her inner dog daily, and edits Star 82 Review while imagining she saw another bird. www.neverbook.com | […]
Read MorePeggy 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
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