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Tenacity

05.04.19 Posted in today's words by

In 2018, Rosalind Kaliden published her first full-length book, Trysting with the Divine, a collection of ekphrastic poems. Her poetry has appeared in Obsidian, Caterpillar, Gemini Magazine, Jelly Bucket, Ignatian Literary Magazine, The MacGuffin, Qwerty Magazine, Valparaiso Review, Moon City Review, The Hollins Critic, Quiet Lunch and The Round. In 2016, she published her first chapbook, Arriving […]


A Daughter of Memory

05.03.19 Posted in today's words by

Ed Zahniser’s most recent poem to appear here was “Pattern Recognition” (March 2019). A Daughter of Memory By Ed Zahniser The one day last year that I took off from being a poet I didn’t carry a pen when we went to a party where a woman who came with my photographer friend Mark talked […]


If I Were Dead

05.02.19 Posted in today's words by

Thomas Locicero’s most recent poem to appear here was “Air Ghazal” (March 2019). If I Were Dead after Carol Ann Duffy By Thomas Locicero If I were dead and my flesh a meal for skittish crows in a cold, unguarded field, or submerged, and my lungs their own estuary in an inlet or a river […]


Tears in His Voice

04.30.19 Posted in today's words by

Kashea C. McCowan, a Georgia native, lives and writes in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Tears in His Voice By Kashea C. McCowan A voice once strong and deep and full of confidence now shaken, quivering and uneasy. The heart stirs up feelings mixing its contents like a can of soda, emotions well up in him rising. […]


Some Good Things

04.28.19 Posted in today's words by

Molly Frederick’s most recent poem to appear here was “Spell” (March 2019). Some Good Things By Molly Frederick Golden bright—the dawn of morning Golden deep—a sunset, slowly subsiding to bathe at length in the river, now transformed to antique gold. The golden shadows trapped inside a cougar’s gaze. Minute fragments, rich in gold, marbling the moist […]


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