Ray Sharp’s most recent poem to appear here was What the Poet Knew About Music, published as part of Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears. Late August, Liminga RoadBy Ray Sharp Three ravens on the road, picking at a fresh kill. Big heads, black feathers puffed out, chests forward,  strutting over the remains of a […]

Susan Ashley Michael of Murfreesboro TN has attended workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown MA. She spends her time reading, writing, and taking pictures, often from a Lake Amphibian LA4-200 seaplane.  Flying on Fat TuesdayBy Susan Ashley Michael Red barns and shingled houses pastures dotted with black crows, silver silos foreshortened, battered, […]

Emma Lovell’s poem Pick me appeared here in May 2011.   Under milky fingernailsBy Emma Lovell It was still warm and gold tinted the day I almost kissed your sunlit ear. Then followed you through hissing leaves and simmering bark, and felt the beautiful smack of your ponytail as you turned your head to stare at an […]

Giovanni Rivera performs his poetry under the name G-$MOOV at venues in the NY/NJ metropolitan area. He energizes the room by shining the light of his art at the darker parts of the human heart.   To Those I Have LostBy Giovanni Rivera I have been to war now I can’t find peace. I have […]

Brooke Elliott’s most recent poem here was Remission (May 2011). Dream SurferBy Brooke Elliott You took too long, so I came to find you; I was afraid of broken bones and fatal scrapes, but you were still there, paddling and standing. I stood on the  boardwalk and watched,  invisible to you, as you drifted in and out […]