Joel Thomas Katz Amsterdam As a KLM wide-body glides overhead toward Schiphol, the heron asks if there’s any hope of being beautiful. Joel Thomas Katz is a Silicon Valley poet who has worked as a business software specialist.
Read MoreGil Hoy To Alice Your father never forgot your mother, the pain was just so great that he had to bury the kryptonite in a steel tunneled chamber to continue the journey that you would have wanted for him, for you loved him more. Gil Hoy tries cases before juries in Boston, Massachusetts and searches […]
Read MoreGil Hoy Inertia Frozen-ground-swells g n i s i r topple massive stones atop the tallest walls. Gil Hoy tries cases before juries in Boston, […]
Read MoreJoanna Brown Shoulder Failure sings to me as she perches on my shoulder, right next to the chip. Joanna Brown is a recovering academic living in Reading, England who writes at https://alaudawritesblog.wordpress.com/. She is a dedicated tea-drinker.
Read MoreNeil Creighton See See how on this rainy day the honeysuckle dresses in cream and gold and how on frosty mornings the humble wattle displays her summery-yellow sprays or how through the gloom of grey cloud’s cluster the sun pokes his bright toe and hope that in whatever darkness come splashes of yellow and gold […]
Read MoreSarena Tien “Wǒ ài nǐ” “Regisrasin,” my mom says, and I correct it to “registration” which she repeats, the word lilting into a question that I answer with “good,” the same response I gave her when she finally said “avocado” instead of “agobado,” leading to her laughter as she informs me, “I’ll forgot that”— and […]
Read MoreSarena Tien Polyglot “Wǒ bù zhī dào” / « Je ne sais pas » / “I don’t know” is what I want to tell people when they ask how many languages I speak because even though I learned Chinese at home, French at school, and English in America, having grown up shy, Chinese-American, and a […]
Read MoreMike Jones American Sentencing Common by nature, Apple, Shell, and Time shall be uncapitalized. Mike Jones has taught in Oakland (CA) public schools since 1990, and continues to learn much from his students.
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