Maureen Donatelli’s most recent poem to appear here was My Cat (August 2011). Bee FeverBy Maureen Donatelli Snow and sleeping, cold floors, things of winter hidden, shapes without names sullen in weak light, waiting for a tongue to pick them up, take them home to thaw, melt blue into a white page where bee fever rises, a […]

Charlotte Rauner’s most recent poem to appear here was Dazzle me snow (July 2011).  When I watch as you walkBy Charlotte Rauner When I watch as you walk centimeters away, I stumble upon the words you blindly spoke and the ones I barely listened to. And I imagine, how does she dream, with her cloudless head? But […]

Nate Spears’ poem So Far Away appeared here in July 2011. While you await the launch of his second full-length poetry collection (this winter from unbound CONTENT!), check out his first full-length collection of poetry, Inspiration 2 Smile!  Miracle WhipBy Nate Spears Free from mason hands Hard labor isn’t the way If it isn’t necessary Evil roots sprout […]

Alan Britt’s most recent poem to appear here was Blues, published as part of Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears.   Common Love PoemBy Alan Britt Chili pepper … torso twisted into a 5,000-year-old lover’s frozen bones. The tongue of a tropical disturbance teases jasmine below bedroom jalousies. The quarter-moon sickles her way through pine needles […]

Janis Lull is professor emerita at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has published scholarship on Shakespeare and other English Renaissance poets. Her own poems have appeared at The Little Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Northwest, Epoch, and elsewhere. More recently her work has been published in Ruminate, Nibble, Perceptions Literary Magazine, and Right Hand Pointing. She also writes reviews for […]