Deborah Bacharach The Stay-at-Home Mom on Break She’s got fifteen min- utes at Goodwill with the fake leather miniskirts. Deborah Bacharach‘s book After I Stop Lying is forthcoming from Wordtech Communications.
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Dale Wisely
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Kelly Fordon: “Kenyon”
Kelly Fordon Kenyon In Ascension, the morning mist ran rimy fingertips over the Gothic spires but it wasn’t the only thing passing through us, whole swathes of time too, and words like fishing hooks sometimes snagged, toilet paper stuck to our shoes. Kelly Fordon is the author of two poetry chapbooks and an upcoming short […]
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Kelly Fordon: “The Chicago Train”
Kelly Fordon The Chicago Train (the California Zephyr on Route from Colorado to Chicago) Outside the barn, two stuffed horses, a Carl Sandburg dream, a rainbow swing, fields like unshaven legs. Kelly Fordon is the author of two poetry chapbooks and an upcoming short story collection, Garden for the Blind, which will be published by […]
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Mary Ellen Talley: “Navy Haiku”
Mary Ellen Talley Navy Haiku In constant homage to the father, the son makes a submarine kite. Mary Ellen Talley submits poetry when she isn’t working with words and children in Seattle.
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Kathleen Kirk: “One Sentence in Three Places”
Kathleen Kirk One Sentence in Three Places A white curtain blows into the room from the open window, an image Xed out by poets who do not see my mother on the bed with her lover * poised on the handle of the Devil’s Teacup * her skin waxen, yellow, the color of joy elsewhere, […]
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Nicci Mechler: “55 Years”
Nicci Mechler 55 Years The day he dies, she rips filters off cigarettes— counts years in matches. Nicci Mechler is hard-pressed to go anywhere without a sense of wonder and a pair of red shoes.
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Michael Passafiume: “regrets”
Michael Passafiume regrets Their chains rattle incessantly but I don’t hear them anymore. Michael Passafiume’s ill-timed submission (a week after Maya Angelou’s death) of his poem “i know why the caged bird screams” was summarily rejected by the Beloit Poetry Journal.
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Nabeela Altaf: “A poor man’s serenade”
Nabeela Altaf A poor man’s serenade They had air to eat with sips of imagination. Nabeela Altaf is a 3rd year medical student from Pakistan, suffering from an avid obsession with writing.
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