Christina Hoag is a reporter with The Associated Press is Los Angeles where she covers all manners of angelic mayhem and mishap. Her life’s journey also includes seven years of mango seasons in Caracas, Venezuela. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have been published in more than 25 literary reviews. mangoes of caracas By Christina […]

Corey Wade is a public agent and he doesn’t know who he works for. He dreams about saving dolphins, speaking in front of a large crowd and proving difficult math theorems. He is very impressed with the choreography of his better half. He’s waiting for the plum trees to ripen so that they can make […]

Adrienne Drobnies is a poet and scientist/project manager at the Genome Sciences Center in Vancouver Canada. Her poetry has appeared at Canadian literary magazines including Scrivener, NeWest Review, Waves, Poetry Canada Review, and Poetry Toronto and in the anthologies New Voices (Mosaic Press) and From Sinai to the Shtetl and Beyond: Where is Home for the Jewish Writer? (Hamilton Jewish Literacy Festival, 2009). Adrienne has […]

Maxwell Baumbach’s most recent poem to appear here was Chemistry Like This, published in November. To hear his interview (in which he reads this poem) at vox poetica’s 15 Minutes of Poetry, click here. 1950s Romance By Maxwell Baumbach had I been born in 1950 I would have taken my date to Big Boy for dinner then […]

Rob Krabbe writes a lot of longer-form fiction, novels particularly. His focus on poetry involves revisiting work from an earlier time and trying his hand at new material. (editor’s note: his correspondence regarding his work and its appearance here was knee deep in humor, something writers should keep in mind when conversing with editors; we […]