Brad Rose A Cure for an Amarillo August Road-worn, dusty, and lined, Ray has a face like a license plate on a stalled Texas pick-up, but as he wraps his wrangler’s arms around her, Roxanne swoons as if he were a cool, dizzying shot of ice-cold anesthesia. Brad Rose was born and raised in southern […]
Read MoreBrad Rose Delusions of War Like a shrapnel hole puncturing an olive-drab helmet there was a sudden lull in the fighting, during the dead silence of which, I imagined I would one day die of natural causes. Brad Rose’s poetry and fiction are at http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com/
Read MoreK. R. Copeland The Storm The storm barges in like an irrational father, hearing moaning just beyond his daughter’s door. K. R. Copeland turns letters into words, words into poems and poems into books.
Read MoreMary-Jane Newton Priorities Be like the sundial: count the light hours and fail to show up for the dark ones. Mary-Jane Newton meets her readers elsewhere, other than where words command us –beyond and beneath their meanings.
Read MoreSarah Kobrinsky Poker Face My third eye sees your third eye And raises an eyebrow. Sarah Kobrinsky, the current Poet Laureate of Emeryville, CA, was born in Canada, reared in North Dakota, seasoned in England, and tempered in California.
Read MoreJ.D. Smith January Owing us nothing now, the green cords barbed with lights acquiesce into the tangles of their accustomed boxes. J.D. Smith’s third collection of poetry is Labor Day at Venice Beach, which everyone should own.
Read MoreLaura Poholek At The Close of Day, Between Folded Consciousness I wish to study the effect of gravity on your eyelids or the mathematical correlation between the phases of the moon and the yearning hieroglyphics of your lips. Laura Poholek lives in Florida and writes particularly well in Laundromats.
Read MoreC.R. Harper Bestseller What should surpass the workhorse dictionary, when all other books are within it? C.R. Harper has found a home in the Pacific Northwest, with short works upcoming in Scifaikuest and 7×20.
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