Jeff Campbell is a teacher, father, husband, and poet. It is symbolic of his life that he often struggles to determine what order to list those aspects in. His musings, poetry, and explorations of the truth can be found at his blog. The Sign Language Class By Jeff Campbell “Voices off” you remind us by […]
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The Beginning of the End
Christina Matthews has given us some wonderful persona poetry (Wild Birdfeeder, Western Honey Bees). This poem is different, although when you read it, you might feel the stirrings of the Muse, sense the edges from which a persona poem could very well grow out of this narrative … if this were Referential Magazine, you’d all be challenged […]
Gratitude to the Trees
For the past several years, Max Reif has had his mornings free for literary exploration. He starts by reading and then begins to journal, as deeply and honestly as he can. In this way “a scent or a full-blown trail often emerges, resulting in a poem, a story, an essay, or a memoir piece.” In […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Handle
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Handle By Paul Hostovsky Because I don’t have anything to hold onto, because I don’t have a Bible or a family ancestor or two the way others seem to when the going gets a little bumpy as they say in airplanes flying around up in the firmament, a […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, You Call Me “Caro Mio”
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words You Call Me “Caro Mio” By Salvatore Buttaci Under the sheets of passion you call me caro mio, But once love melts into final throbs and last breaths, Your eyes glazed like impromptu tabloid snapshots, You turn your naked back to me, say how the night Is finally […]
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