Karen Schindler has given us sensuous and visual poetry before (Nature’s Parade, undiscovered, Coming Home), but today’s selection contains a different kind of puzzle. Hint: follow the asterisks, but not in the intuitive direction! This might just be the perfect poem for a stormy night when people apart can hear the same thunder across the […]

Bobbie Troy is a freelance technical writer and editor who lives in rural Virginia (yes, poetry nirvana!). Her real passion is writing short fiction, poetry, and fairy tales. She is currently working on a collection of fairy tales titled Fairy Tales for the 21st Century. Her poetry has been published in the premier edition of […]

Manny Beltran, writer and visual artist, is known here and elsewhere for his strong, dramatic imagery (Bygone, A Contemporary Sonnet and The Coming Dawn). Manny’s work exorcises the demons of emotion and seeks to put order to the universe. Dwell on the images here as Manny takes us for a pendulum swing ride in search […]

Linda Ardison’s poetry has appeared in a variety of literary journals such as Concerning Poetry and Poet Lore, as well as the anthology Essential Love: Poetry about Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons. Last year she won the First Place Award in Poetry at Christopher Newport University’s annual Writing Conference. After years of working as […]

Short poems are Mark Holloway’s specialty as you know (Clipper). In October we see spiders of every size and color, we see their webs, bejeweled with morning dew in our mums, and we know there will be a whole parade of them (with their ghost and witch companions) knocking on the door to trick-or-treat in […]