Maria Elena Hicks was born in Mexico and moved to the United States as an infant. While growing up, she returned to Mexico for months at a time to visit her grandmother, who passed away in 2003. She remembers playing with other little girls while their grandmothers sat and talked. About this poem, Maria says, […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Modern Snow
Rehan Qayoom is a poet, editor, and translator from London. He writes poetry in both English and Urdu and his works have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies. Modern Snow By Rehan Qayoom So still so silent so serene so wan So deathly white as if all life had gone This dawn I see […]
The stars bent
Dawnell Harrison’s work has been published in more than 100 magazines and journals including The Endicott Review, The Journal, Fowl Feathered Review, Jellyfish Whispers, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, The Tower Journal, and Queen’s Quarterly. She has published four poetry collections, Voyager, The maverick posse, The love death, and The fire behind my eyes. Dawnell holds a […]
Clarity
Bill Webb’s most recent poem to appear here was Shards (January 2014). Clarity By Bill Webb when autumn no longer lingers pushed away by cold northern winds and leaves resignedly brown forsaking autumnal glory–rest it reminds me of turnpike miles and windowed secrets cloaked once in green hopes and dreams carelessly revealed as the miles […]
Instead of Writing Poems
Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux is a storyteller, mime, and stilt walker. Her writing has appeared in Storytelling Magazine. She has lived at the edge of the Boundary Waters in the foothills of the Indian Himalaya, and off-grid in a yurt. She now resides with her family on the shore of Lake Superior, where they run an […]
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