Jekwu Anyaegbuna’s most recent poem to appear here was Crystal Voice, published as part of Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears. Caution By Jekwu Anyaegbuna We lock our family gates against the new rains, to prevent the possibility of diluting our thirsts. We have been warned to safeguard our throats, to verify the lip of […]

Mather Schneider lives in Tucson AZ and drives a cab for a living. His poetry and prose have appeared in the small press since 1993. He has 2 full-length books of poetry, Drought Resistant Strain, from Interior Noise Press, and He Took a Cab, from NYQ Press. Visit his blog. Breaking the Holding Pattern By Mather Schneider The […]

Joseph Harker is the pseudonym of a vagrant twentysomething from the East Coast. When not wandering from city to city an getting into mischief, he writes poems whenever he can. You can see his work in both print and online journals such as Chantarelle’s Notebook, Ganymede, and qarrtsiluni, but it’s easier to find him at his blog. So far, his […]

Steve De France, MFA, has traveled widely in the United States. On more than one occasion he hitchhiked across America. He rode rails on freight trains, worked as a laborer with pick-up gangs in Arizona, dug swimming pools in Texas, did 33 days in the Pecos city jail as a vagrant, fought bulls in Mexico, […]

Molly Frederick’s most recent poem to appear here was Confidence (May 2011). Molly writes beautifully about nature, or rather, Molly’s writing uses the natural world to explore the terrain of human nature. ReturningBy Molly Frederick When first I saw the stream, it was full and flowing and it moved with a purpose and a bright, tossing plan. […]