California native and Syracuse scholar Troy Trenton Dangerfield restored us to youthful energy when his first poem appeared here (My Passion Is a Beast). Today’s poem reveals an observant nature, the power of stage experience (Troy both writes and acts), and the way the creative process elucidates elements of human personality. The narrative here will […]

New Jersey’s own Manny Beltran has contributed his written art [The Coming Dawn, Bygone (A Contemporary Sonnet), A Gentle Good-bye] and his visual art (An tAmhranai/The Singer; Contributor Series 2: Candy and Spirits, La Llorona, The Weeping Woman) to these pages. Manny’s new poem explores broken hearts, fractured souls, and the surprising gift of being […]

Kim Klugh has sent us lovely poems from her home in Lancaster PA (Yours Was the First Face; Contributor Series 1: 9/11, Afterwards; Contributor Series 2: Candy and Spirits, Jack’s Demise). Kim’s poems bring a poetic profoundness to life’s moments, big and small. This untitled poem takes a big moment, death, and the years of […]

R. Martin Basden, of Norfolk VA, spoke to us recently about his fickle muse (Interruption). Here he writes about a very different type of inspiration, a point of contact in the most unexpected of moments. It’s impossible to read this and not feel the tickle on your own hand and the smile spreading across your […]

Hadley Hury keeps busy in Tennessee. His suspense novel The Edge of the Gulf was published in 2003 and his collection of short stories It’s Not the Heat was published in 2007. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in Image, Colorado North, Grapevine, and Green Mountains Review. He is college counselor and chair of […]