Patti Forehand’s poem The City that Care Forgot appeared here in January. Her work delves into emotional terrain. Today’s poem is a study of conflicting memories wrestling for primacy in an important remembrance. I might have called it Balancing Act. Dear Father By Patti Forehand On this your day still set aside as you lay entombed in […]

Maxwell Baumbach is a young writer who attends Concordia University Chicago. He has been writing since his freshman year of high school, but he didn’t take his craft very seriously until he won the Fine Arts Poetry contest at Timothy Christian High School. Since then his work has been featured in various publications in print […]

The last poem Bette Hileman gave us, Death Too Early or Too Late, was philosophical with a note of humor to it. This poem will not make you laugh, but it will make love, with all its inherent risks and rewards, come alive a little for you. Danger By Bette Hileman The two of us float […]

Emily Okaty Wilson lives in Michigan, where she spends her days as a stay-at-home mom and a part-time volunteer. Her work has been published at MomSense Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Mother of Preschooler’s Soul, and the Livingston Parent Journal. Visit her blog (featured twice on WordPress’s Freshly Pressed front page) to see more of her writing. […]

You may recognize Ian Burden’s name from the prompts page photo credits: he is the photographer of Frames as Sunset, which ran earlier this summer and is expected to appear as part of another prompts anthology later this year. Ian is getting back to writing after some time away. He travels frequently and is currently […]