Salvatore Buttaci’s poem What Time Is Left was published as part of Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone in December 2010.  Mountain HikeBy Salvatore Buttaci Box lunch prepared, we hike the hills dotted with marigolds so still we think they’re asleep in their green beds, deep in woods steep with sun spill.  Ham sandwiches on […]

Dean Olson has published six limited-edition poetry collections. He is emeritus faculty of the Evergreen State College, where he taught economics, cultural studies and maritime history. He lives in Olympia WA with his children and grandchildren. His poems have been accepted for publication in Cascade #2 by the Washington Poets Association, Prairie Schooner, Minotaur, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, […]

Meg Pokrass is the author of Damn Sure Right (Press 53) and serves as editor-at-large for BLIP Magazine(formerly Mississippi Review) and before that, for SmokeLong Quarterly. Her stories, poems, and flash fiction animations have appeared in nearly 100 online and print publications including Gargoyle, Annalemma, Wigleaf, PANK, FRIGG, and the Mississippi Review. Meg lives with her […]

Aarushi Vyas’ poem Land of Eternal Bliss appeared here in June 2011.  I Don’t KnowBy Aarushi Vyas What makes the tides turn Or new buds unfurl I don’t know I am blissfully unaware Of the intricacies Of nature’s divine show I may not be a know-it-all nerd But still I am unperturbed Because not knowing What makes […]

SJ Fowler’s poem Taxidermy Poem 1 appeared here in July 2011.  Taxidermy Poem 2By SJ Fowler (Pact) -O Yahweh! their killer dogs looked us over with curiosity -O levi baaram batzi Tzion in a strange land –Genrikh Sapgir the camp blueprints show seventeen huts built on the downward southern slope of the rubbish tip near Clichy-sur-seine after […]