David Black Mental Illness My memories told of a persistent dream, where the night was not quiet and sleep didn’t matter. David Black started writing poetry as a way to cope with a mental illness and has a self-described eclectic style.
Read MoreKaren Fitzpatrick In Your Absence Sometimes I imagine I am my own ghost walking up the stairs. Karen Fitzpatrick loves John Ashberry’s phrase “time is an emulsion.”
Read MoreJohn Hawkhead As a ghost moon sails the ridge memories of childhood fill her eyes with shadows. John Hawkhead is a writer and illustrator from the South West of England whose book Small Shadows is available from Alba publishing.
Read MoreJosé Enrique Medina Bill Died The world moved one degree, and only Bill’s friends noticed. José Enrique Medina received his BA in English from Cornell University.
Read MoreDavid Brehmer The Zen of Surviving Trauma lodges in one’s joints like shrapnel, sometimes burning, sometimes tearing, sometimes waiting to burn. David Brehmer is a technical writer by day and a poet by day and night, but prefers to just be known as a Minnesota-born writer, drummer, husband, and father.
Read MoreElizabeth Gauffreau Walking with My Mother We walk along the roadway, you and I, two osteoporotic women falling into Indian summer. Elizabeth Gauffreau writes poetry by ear in Nottingham, New Hampshire.
Read MoreLee Nash The first and last time I met Egje At the host’s somewhat awkward offer of sparkling wine on the terrace overlooking the valley as the mid-afternoon sun drizzled through the lime tree and Californian poppies shyly fringed the farmhouse wall before the first bite of olive cake before her husband turned the elm […]
Read MoreKathryn Staublin Creative Writing Club Blues I introduce poetry as one would introduce a past love— timidly, with poise and appreciation— but it is difficult to convince those searching eyes that anything worth doing is worth doing right when the only thing that sells comes in fifty shades. Kathryn Staublin is an English teacher who […]
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