Eve Lyons is a thirty-something married woman living in Boston MA. For money she is an expressive arts therapist, for love she is a poet, fiction writer, and playwright. She has been previously published in Fireweed, Labyrinth, Barbaric Yawp, Women’s Words, Concho River Review, Women, Sapphic Ink, Texas Observer, Houston Literary Review, Word Riot, and […]

Maureen Donatelli is new to writing poetry but not to reading it. That has been an ongoing adventure since she was 2. She has lived most of her life in Abbotsford, British Columbia, where she received her BA in English from The University of the Fraser Valley with honors in 2001. Besides all things poetic, […]

Felino A Soriano is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 36 collections of poetry including In Praise of Absolute Interpretation (Desperanto, 2010) and Realities of Bifocal Translations(Blue & Yellow Dog Press, 2010). His poems have appeared in places such as Calliope Nerve, Unlikely 2.0,BlazeVOX, Metazen, Otoliths, and others. He edits and publishesCounterexample Politics, an […]

Michael Turner’s poem My Muse was published here in December. His poem today is just as relatable, but for nonwriters anyway, probably more poignant. The experience he relates is a heartbreak known to teenagers of all ages. Bet some of you can even remember the first time you ever felt this way. Call Waiting By Michael Turner […]

Brandon Copeland’s poem Ariadne appeared here in November 2010. This poem is a collection of great lines strung together. On this banal plain By Brandon Copeland what is that saying? oh. darkest before dawn? and i will keep holding out my tongue because each ending is a different flavor of darkness no abyss or bliss just shades […]