Shannon Curtin is a poet from Portsmouth VA. Her poems have appeared at The Camel Saloon and at poetry readings throughout the Hampton Roads area. She is a grateful and enthusiastic student of The Muse Writing Center. HousekeepingBy Shannon Curtin The mundane taskscommanding our attentionafter we’ve dealt withdaily household maintenanceare tea leavesat the bottom of […]

Anthony Ward’s most recent poem to appear here was Snowballed (May 2012). The Nervous SystemBy Anthony Ward The city’s a nervous systemA minutia of intricacies consolidating functionsOverlooked by more celebrated organsVigorously driving networks of vesselsCongested by build ups of traffic–Carcinomatous cells spreading far and wideViolating our habitatWith industrious smoke suffocating lungsIngesting chemicals into our streamsThe malaise of […]

Philip Vermaas is a professional copywhore, excessive drinker, lustful fool, fledgling editor, dilettante animator, occasional graphic designer, fatalistic romantic, self-indulgent poet, failing novelist, borderline mendicant, and bad son of the world. In addition to the poems he has cheekily published at his own Misfit’s Miscellany, his work can be read at Drunken Absurdity, online and in their […]

Frank Cavano’s most recent poem to appear here was Seasons of the Mind, 2nd Runner-up in the First-Ever vox poetica Poetry Contest (January 2011). Waiting For God, OhBy Frank Cavano Lost in the chair, the chair of tiger-likestripes, waiting for what, an inspiration?You are gone from me now banished bymy impudence, my mind whistling, chestpuffing effrontery. […]

Judith Dreyer loves gardens and writes nonfiction for Master Gardeners Associations, sharing her knowledge of edible and medicinal plants. She also enjoys writing fiction and poetry. Judith belongs to a writers group in Culpeper VA called Pen to Paper. Visit her blog. It Is Spring AgainBy Judith Dreyer You said hello and good nightYet the in […]