Jeffrey Smyers has published poetry under a pseudonym. He is a photographer who specializes in imagery and color. His photographs have appeared at the prompts page and as cover art for Cassie Premo Steele’s The Pomegranate Papers (2012 unbound CONTENT) and Maxwell Baumbach’s At Age Twenty (forthcoming, unbound CONTENT). ConsiderationBy Jeffrey SmyersYou threw my doubtsBrittle bones that they areOver […]

Jean McLeod’s most recent poem to appear here was Safety (April 2012). History Gone ColdBy Jean McLeodOn a day rumored weatherlessair still as a monk’s prayerthe last morning starholds its breathon the branchof a finely drawn-tree. A milk-blue sunthe color of the old man’s veinscools in the sky. As memory silhouettes his pasthe attempts new realitiesfrom the […]

Ailill’s most recent poem to appear here was The Guests at the Feast (November 2011). Robin’s RhapsodyBy AilillThis melodystirs up spiritsof dawn. The sound of it,celebratingthe innocent blushof newborn sun. A silk road toears asleep.

Harris Tobias’ most recent poem to appear here was Trumpets (March 2012). The PondBy Harris TobiasThere is a green furze upon the trees across the pondThe ducks are courting, their ritual old as SpringAn awakening, no doubt about itAn abundant fecundity of budsTadpoles fill the shallowsBeyond them swim the fryThe pond bubbles with abundancePregnant with new lifeSome […]

Emily Ramser is a high school author living part time in North Carolina and California. She has had work published in a small school anthology and in online literary magazines such as The Crocodile Journal and Spinozablue. Emily works with Stage of Life as a featured blogger and on the team of a local magazine […]