Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis who teaches needlepoint classes in the Minneapolis school district. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hawai’i Pacific Review, the Oxford American, and Slipstream, and she is a recent recipient of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her book publications include Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar-All-in-One for Dummies, and Music […]

BethAnn Caputo recently graduated from Adelphi University with a BA in English. She has a passion for travel and has taught creative writing classes in Ireland. Her work is either forthcoming or can be seen at The Rusty Nail, Downer Magazine, The Story Shack, and Daily Love. She currently lives, works, and writes in Brooklyn NY.Chemo BrainBy BethAnn Caputo […]

Frieda Landau’s poem No Mind a Whetstone appeared here in November 2012.Small TalkBy Frieda Landau The crowd in front of the synagogueWaiting for the holiday service to beginTalked of this and that:The best restaurant for fish,The unseasonable weather,The latest skirmish with the condo association,The way the soldiers slit open the belliesOf very pregnant women to smash the […]

Jean McLeod’s most recent poem to appear here was Passion (December 2012).ZealotsBy Jean McLeod Thank you for your latest invitation.I must respectfully decline.One evening in the companyof you and your cohortsgave me to realizeI don’t fit your social conventions.Your peevish protestsagainst everythingfor no particular gainbecame the buzz of insects;your conversation,a plague of gnats,your tongues,emery boardsin a darkened […]

Twenty, soon approaching twenty-one years, Amanda Marker descended into the rabbit hole. The painful past is receding as the bright lights of the future illuminate. This young, aspiring author flourishes in a world of music, spiritual knowledge, and inquisitive bouts of philosophical ventures. Amanda has a whole wide world to share with the outside one. […]