Jessica Isaacs silence He talks constantly, rambling on aimlessly just to fill the silence, because the silence says more than he’s ready to hear. Jessica Isaacs, the founder and co-editor of Dragon Poet Review, an online literary journal (http://dragonpoetreview.com), received the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry for her first full-length book of poems, Deep August (Village Books Press, […]
Read MorePeter Venable Motionless, crows eye me from branches and one, on a stump, displays wings—a parasol of sheen in sun’s shaft. Peter Venable has written hundreds of poems over decades, been published elsewhere, sings, writes, counsels, inspires, and is happily married with a fine daughter, son-in-law,and Yeshua.
Read MorePeter Venable The Nazarene eyed the temple and spoke of stones crumbling to dust, of stars dropping like hail on lanes, meadows, trees— the sun black as a crow’s eye. Peter Venable has written hundreds of poems over decades, been published elsewhere, sings, writes, counsels, inspires, and is happily married with a fine daughter, son-in-law,and […]
Read MoreTom Russell Everyone Else Was Buying War Bonds Army patrols from the Frog Pond country school fought Nazis on the prairie at one recess and from high-flying swings at the next. Tom Russell‘s commute to work was roughly a quarter of a million miles over the first 18 years.
Read MoreNelson Ball Ducks Spring rains flood fields —every farm a pond. Nelson Ball, the author of two recent poetry collections from Mansfield Press, lives in southern Ontario, Canada, at the confluence of the Nith and Grand Rivers.
Read MoreSteve Klepetar At the Border As a man crushes his cigarette, a woman holding a child sings a gentle, guttural song in language I don’t understand. Steve Klepetar is a minimalist (sometimes).
Read MoreMary Rogers-Grantham Pardon me, but I discarded two clean dress shirts that were folded in the hamper which you were probably going to iron but they were dingy, so frayed and so old. Mary Rogers-Grantham is a published poet and a visiting professor at Flagler College in St.Augustine, Florida.
Read MoreDaniel Birnbaum Fog one meter above the ground a slice of me is walking through a slice of sky. Daniel Birnbaum is a 62 year-old, lives in Provence, France, and writes poetry and short novels whenever he finds time.
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