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The Day My Husband Had a Stroke

07.23.12 Posted in today's words by

Abbie Johnson Taylor’s poetry collection, How to Build a Better Mousetrap: Recollections and Reflections of a Family Caregiver, was published by iUniverse in December of 2011. Her novel, We Shall Overcome, also published by iUniverse, was released in July 2011. She is legally blind and lives in Sheridan WY with her totally blind husband Bill, partially paralyzed as a […]


Dawn the Way I Want Her To

07.23.12 Posted in words to linger on by

In case you don’t remember why you should remember Scott Owens, let’s revisit: His tenth collection of poetry, Shadows Trail Them home, is due out from Clemson University Press this fall, his work has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the NC Writers Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry […]


Forgiveness

07.22.12 Posted in today's words by

Milenko Å½upanović was born in Kotor Montenegro in 1978. He still lives in Kotor, but he is Croatian. He is a marine engineer who spends his free time writing fiction, science fiction, horror, comic books, and poetry. He has published a collection of his stories called The One Who Walked on Water and his work has appeared at journals […]


Superstitious

07.21.12 Posted in today's words by

DM Aderibigbe is a 23-year-old writer from Lagos, Nigeria, an undergraduate student of history and strategic studies at the University of Lagos. He writes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, and song lyrics. His debut novel, Sisyphean, will be published in America soon.SuperstitiousBy DM AderibigbeShe is dancing in my sleep.My dream peeps from thedoor of the room, […]


Point Pleasant Beach in January

07.20.12 Posted in today's words by

Jolene Paternoster, a recent graduate of Skidmore College, lives in Northern New Jersey, where she works as a freelance editor. She has recently been awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize for a selection from her senior project in poetry. Her work has appeared in Skidmore College’s literary magazinesPalimpsest and Folio. She looks forward to furthering her studies […]


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