Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words lights like fencers heads By Mark William Jackson outside a train station fixed to a wall there are lights like heads of fencers, masked and slightly bowed. I saw this as an interesting observation, but you really have to see them for yourself. as I looked at them […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Poison Pen
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Poison Pen By Jean McLeod Words lie on my paper like dead fish: blackened bones meaningless motes. Smelling of iodine and rot, they straggle, strive ring with slander slither through my fingers onto a sullied page roiling like seas before a slattern storm. Unruly heathens, they slash and […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Tasting Words
The much-anticipated, long-awaited Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words explores … words. Language, specific words, their purpose, sounds, meanings, the whole boundless concept of words. We are writers, aren’t we? Words are our currency. Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Tasting Words By Neil Ellman Say a word Listen to its bouquet […]
Out Here in the Country
A 2010 Bridgewater College graduate, Nicole Yurcaba’s work has been published in Bridgewater College’s The Philomathean, Bluefield College’s The Bluestone Review, and Mary Baldwin College’s Outrageous Fortune. She has also written works that were presented at James Madison University, Virginia Military Institute, Turner Ashby High School, and Bridgewater College. This poem takes us to a place far removed […]
Dark Day
William C Ross last gave us Summer Rains. As proven by his poems inspired by the word of the day, the man has a way with words. This poem, so different from the others of his you’ve read here, shows his range. Dark Day By William C Ross Portentous black clouds hung overhead as dusk […]
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