Leah Stenson’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Cruelest Month” (September 2019). Spa By Leah Stenson At a spa where young people flaunt tight abs and toned limbs and women wear skimpy, stylish bikinis, as a septuagenarian with grey hair, sagging flesh and mid-drift barely restrained by one-piece Speedo, I wonder if I […]
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Evening Walk
Alison Hicks’ work has appeared in Eclipse, Fifth Wednesday, Gargoyle, Louisville Review, Permafrost, Poet Lore, and other journals. Her books include two collections of poetry, You Who Took the Boat Out (Unsolicited Press, 2017) and Kiss (PS Books, 2011), plus a chapbook, Falling Dreams (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and a novella titled Love: A Story […]
A Poet is Not a Priest
Thomas Locicero’s most recent poem to appear here was “Wallace Stevens in Love” (September 2019). A Poet is Not a Priest By Thomas Locicero A poet is not a priest in a cramped confessional, for the sins of others vie to twist his words, to slip themselves into his biography. The poet is not a […]
October
R.M. Engelhardt’s most recent poem to appear here was “What We Once Had” (August 2018). October By R.M. Engelhardt October has arrived We shall all run together For souls that are on fire Can never be at rest
City to Country
Sydney Blondell’s most recent poem to appear here was “Ninth Grade” (July 2019). City to Country By Sydney Blondell From birth until age eleven an environment created where opinions are welcome friends are of every race and creativity flows Was what I knew as home. Now stuck in a cow field where ideas are shot […]
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