Lindsay Barrick is a young mixed-media artist living and creating in western North Carolina. She is currently working on a series of encaustic paintings and ekphrastic poems that center on her home state of West Virginia, exploring themes of family, communion with the land, and the difficult issues facing the people of Appalachia including mountain […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Child Astronaut
Richard J O’Brien was born in New Jersey and currently lives in Pennsylvania. He recently completed his MFA in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Richard served in the army before the Berlin Wall came down and later went to Rutgers University, earning a BA in English. Earlier this year he participated in the Tupelo […]
Ten-Year Anniversary
Nick Talent marks a particular anniversary. Ten-Year Anniversary By Nick Talent Ten years of listening to the smack of her tongue spitting “Sweetie,” after a scorching tirade. Today she’ll listen to the click of the door closing on the past, the 10 long years I won’t get back.
Now
James Owens shares the mystery of gravity, and memory, and paradise. Now By James Owens 1. Summer twilights when the earth twirled away from the monster sun, we stretched on the lip of a grassy hillside, poised for one sweet moment of daring any force to pull us down– and pushed off, unleashing the wild […]
35 Months
Jasmina Tacheva was born and raised in Bulgaria but has been residing in Buffalo NY for the past 3 years. She is the author of one book of poetry, Nespodelenost (Unrequited in Bulgarian) and the coauthor of a book of fiction, The Legacy of Lysimachus. She edits the online literary journals Public Republic and Absinthe-Minded, […]
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