Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Words By Hugh Fox Remembering back to obsessive Fox back when I was in high school, everyone else out base- and footballing it, me at home in my cubbyhole bedroom in our apartment on the far South Side (Chatham) in Chicago, reading all of Aldous Huxley’s and James […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Blue
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Blue By Nicole Yurcaba yellow swirling green combining perfectly indigo peacock’s feathers crisp wide-open Wyoming skies Hank Williams’ “Long Gone Lonesome Blues” Pacific, Atlantic oceans Denim–light and dark Teal, cerulean, various shades Union Blue versus Confederate Gray blue-ticked coonhound howling at October’s moon wheat Blue Moon beer, honey-spiked […]
Out Here in the Country
A 2010 Bridgewater College graduate, Nicole Yurcaba’s work has been published in Bridgewater College’s The Philomathean, Bluefield College’s The Bluestone Review, and Mary Baldwin College’s Outrageous Fortune. She has also written works that were presented at James Madison University, Virginia Military Institute, Turner Ashby High School, and Bridgewater College. This poem takes us to a place far removed […]
On Aging
Audrey Markowitz is a retired communications and training consultant who is now a volunteer mediator-in-training at her local dispute resolution center. She also helps elementary students with their reading. Audrey pursues her passions for making handmade one-of-a-kind greeting cards and writing poetry. Her poem here is an entertaining observation of the way certain rituals change […]
Rain Inside
Jennifer Brady is a lover of words and creation living in Wisconsin. She often sees herself in both, but most enjoys the view of who she is through the eyes of her two young children. This poem captures how she often sees her internal life reflected in nature. How often has it happened to you […]
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