Mariah Boone’s most recent poem to appear here was Uprooted (September 2012). Have you noticed we are knee-deep in National Poetry Month? Speak One Promise By Mariah Boone Almost-pink striations of the pinto beanAre blue-speckled eggs the size of fingernailsAre silvering purple cartography on swelling bellies

Jennifer Greenholt is a long-time resident of North Carolina, having grown up surrounded by the vineyards of the Yadkin Valley. She escaped briefly to Virginia, where she earned a BA in English from Bridgewater College before returning to her roots to complete a Master’s Degree at Wake Forest University. While studying Shakespearean literature, she used […]

Kelly DeMaegd currently lives with her husband in Sherrills Ford NC. She spends her time creating mixed media collage, gardening, and writing poetry. She has had a previous poem published at Wild Goose Poetry Review. If This Were My Last Day By Kelly DeMaegd If this were my last dayI would iron linen napkins,put the […]

Lou Pugliese’s most recent poem to appear here was Reflections on a pretty lady’s garden, published as part of Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays (June 2012), and it is one of my favorites.   Cud By Lou Pugliese I think I would have been a better man if God had made me a cowSticking my head […]

Laura Behr was a finalist in the 2012 Third Coast poetry contest. Her work has been published in The Cortland Review, Canyon Voices, The Cafe Review, Numero Cinq, Sense, em:me, and other fine journals. She recently completed a book of poetry, Cave Diving with Einstein, and a chapbook, Knife. Laura Behr lives in Montgomery AL. She is the […]