Hannah Cranston is an untried undergraduate eager to add her voice to the conversation. She’s shared poetry and prose on Cicada Magazine’s online writing forum “The Slam.” Her poem Child Walking at Night (2008) and short story The Hidden Room (2010) are published in the magazine’s yearly “Best of the Slam” feature. She may be young, but […]

Marc Carver’s poem Trolley appeared here in April 2011.  Dead drunkBy Marc Carver I always remember when my father came back from the shops. You could hear the bottles chinking in the bag Even though he said he had been out for food. I did not like him much when he drunk. He changed He had less […]

Christopher Roe’s poem Silence appeared here in May 2011. You’ve been this boy before, haven’t you? The skipping stoneBy Christopher Roe Jagged edges of its creation tumbled smooth by the waves, over eons, lying forgotten by time on the sandy shore. Passing footsteps over the years ground deeper into the sand in time to be reborn in […]

Julie Ellinger Hunt’s most recent poem to appear here was Original Composition, published in June 2011 as part of Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears. This poem really shows off her skill with humor. And her ability to transform a mundane moment into a work of art. Fruit FliesBy Julie Ellinger Hunt Interim food lies […]

Nick Hawkins most recent poem to appear here was Forthwit’ and Child (April 2011). Of this poem, Nick says: “Being held prisoner in the land of the free is something we are so unaccustomed to, but in snowfall last year in the UK (and I guess in the USA too) many of us have been sentenced to […]