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Beth’s Mountain: A Ghazal by Linda Blaskey
for Beth Copeland Yesterday, warring fog and sun unmoored her mountain. She has come to expect this dodge-and-feint of her mountain. One...
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Mar 25, 20202 min read
"Carnival Goldfish Boy" by Maria Masington Winner of the Dover Poetry Weekend's Ekphrastic Contest
Carnival Goldfish Boy after Every Beginning by N. Taylor Collins We had the requisite pet parade, gerbils, hamsters, hermit crabs, moving...
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Mar 25, 20206 min read
Four poems by Michael Chang
MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) poets to feel alive. Their writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Minnesota Review, Yellow Medicine R
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Mar 25, 20203 min read
Three poems by Martin Willitts Jr
A Leading, 2 From blinding sunlight, we are rendered with love, like a sky painted with summoning music, generations of waves from...
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Mar 25, 20201 min read
Two poems by Milton P. Ehrlich
All She Ever Wanted Was the light of astonishment— watching a white narcissus bulb secured in a pot on her old pine desk. It bloomed like...
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Mar 25, 20202 min read
Two poems by Marc Swan
Before Mother Married Father Scrambled eggs, bacon and toast, coffee steaming between them in the Red Robin Diner in Johnson City New...
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Mar 25, 20202 min read
Three Poems by Joseph Mills
Deviant After dropping acid, Danny danced all night by himself in the corner of the dining room. He was there when we went to bed and...
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Mar 25, 20201 min read
"The Knock" by Dan Cuddy
Dark That knock on the door---- Who? Why? Why me? Yes, I am a member. I pay Daily, weekly, yearly. I’ve done nothing wrong. I don’t sing...
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Mar 25, 20202 min read
Three poems by Lenny DellaRocca
The Need to Explain Before heading to the gym, my wife—unencumbered by her handbag— walks to the laundry slash mail room where a...
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Feb 26, 20202 min read
"Two Poems" by David P. Kozinski
Earthly Places “And all that I knew is moving away from me.” -Joanna Newsom The sign on the office door reads Gone where the clock really...
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Feb 26, 20201 min read
"Restoration" by Elizabeth Robin
i checked the widow box today another milestone in the books like the restored antique car found languishing on a Georgia farm a tree...
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Feb 17, 20205 min read
The Fire Eater brings warmth and compassion. A review of Jose Hernandez Diaz's new chapbook
By Stephen Scott Whitaker The Fire Eater Jose Hernandez Diaz Texas Review Press $16.95 The Fire Eater, Jose Hernandez Diaz’s debut...
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Jan 29, 20203 min read
Two poems by Obediah Michael Smith
Our Own Town I was remembering us the smooth and the rough the times we have had the love we have made in between the sonnets and haikus,...
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Jan 27, 20202 min read
Two poems by Adam D. Weeks
Kangaroo Rain “Step outside and the air is a weight you bear.” –Catherine Pierce We used to play in an empty swimming pool, skin on...
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Jan 27, 20202 min read
Two poems by E. Laura Golberg
How I Came to America “Credibility gap” and “rubbernecking”. My father loved the language of America, loved the lure of opportunity. He...
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Jan 27, 20202 min read
Two poems by Paul Jones
Moving from House to House We live in a sacramental universe; Every small act becomes an act to redeem us: A brocaded coat repaired and...
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Jan 27, 20201 min read
"Five Ways to Break a Habit" by Ellery Beck
The garlic scent in my passenger seat is getting stronger. I’ll throw away the leftovers and see what replaces it first. I thought the...
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Jan 27, 20202 min read
Two poems by Irene Fick
The Air Inside The Voice Lesson Searching for air, I mine deep into this cryptic cavern. The coach intones, Breathe! Your air must wind...
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Jan 27, 20201 min read
"Tiny Waiting Room" by Jennifer Back
waiting in the hospital where they showed the history channel on repeat and I brought a loaf of sourdough bread and a jar of Nutella...
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Jan 27, 20201 min read
"Wound" by M. Nasorri Pavone
She guessed he felt badly by how he bandaged the knee, checking it daily, taking her mother’s place in the fix-it department. She...
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