Matthew Laffrade’s work has recently appeared in Ditch Poetry, Camel Saloon, and Requiem Magazine and is forthcoming in Hitherto and Notes from the Underground. He received University of Toronto’s Harold Sonny Ladoo Book Prize for his novella Past Present. He lives outside Toronto. The GiraffeBy Matthew Laffrade I met a giraffe named Noah who ate little pellets you give toGoats out of the palm of […]

Born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1969, Nevenka Pupek has been recording life in words and colors since the mid 80s. For the last few years she has been publishing her poems on the internet, in magazines, and in anthologies. She has staged 2 solo exhibitions of paintings and poetry and her first independent collection of […]

Babatunde Lamidi’s most recent poem to appear here was Rugged vs Pretty, published as part of Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags. A Disorganized SettingBy Babatunde Lamidi What do you see when you look around?What do you hear when you listen?What do you feel when you touch? I see humans detached from the earthtaken to a place where […]

Bobbi Sinha-Morey lives in California. Scraps of the WorldBy Bobbi Sinha-Morey It was like having smallscraps of the worldunder my bed. In a dressbox spilling over the edgewere old pictures, dozensof lost faces I’d sift throughthat would drift beneathmy dreams when I slept.Their images would makea shape around me likea grandmother’s embrace,and their song of […]

G David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, an online faith committee. He is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue (1994) and Midrash and Working Out of the Book (2004). David currently volunteers at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, and he continues to write. His new book Shards and Verse (2011) is available in stores and online. Wednesday Did […]