Joanie DiMartino is a Jersey Girl who is living elsewhere (currently in Mystic CT). She has just released her first full-length poetry collection, Strange Girls (Little Red Tree Publishing). Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies and has been featured in numerous collaborations incorporating music and visual art. Don’t miss her interview on 15 […]

Melissa Lamb is an English professor who lives in Nashville TN and teaches literature, composition, and critical thinking. Her passions are family, freedom, all forms of art, animals, and teaching. She has three dogs: Garbo (a miniature Pinscher), Willie (a Coon Hound mutt), and Moon Pearl (a Samoyed, of course). In Melissa’s own words this […]

In July, Jasper Ballard put words to a writer’s struggle with the craft in his poem Writing … Today he speaks to another feeling we all know quite well. Something to wonder about: does writing help us bridge the gaps?  Solitude By Jasper Ballard Alone Everyday The hypnotic trance of life Rushing by Images flashing Never connecting […]

Harris Tobias gave us Haikus 9 and 10 in September. In keeping with the seasonal motif, today we get official word that the party is over. So sad …   Fall Again By Harris Tobias Fall again You’d think we’d learn What to expect at Summer’s end The last big party The confetti trees and all those […]

Ailill’s poem I am appeared here as part of Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae. Where did Ailill get the inspiration to write Inspiration? In his words: “I wrote that after asking the question ‘what is inspiration’ to the I Ching at an online site. I received my reading, thought about it, and wrote the poem. Since then […]