Linda Sue Grimes has published poems in many literary journals, including Sonoma Mandala, Rattle, and The Bellingham Review. She has published 3 books of poems: Singing in the Silence, Command Performance, and Turtle Woman & Other Poems. Linda completed her PhD in literature at Ball State University, where she also served as assistant professor of […]
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Hansel in Darkness
Addy Robinson McCulloch is a freelance writer and editor whose clients include Pearson Education and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her work has appeared in publications such as Redheaded Stepchild, 234, The Iodine Review, What Matters (an anthology of poetry from Jacar Press), and Get Out of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights […]
Tornado
Jean McLeod shows us the force of nature. Tornado By Jean McLeod No one expected betrayal before noon when supple air gave way to the metallic taste of an unleashed jinn who sparked fireworks from transformers and ran amok snapping trees one after the next until sound volleyed down the valley. Sharp slaps of wind […]
Lapse
Cheryl A Van Beek’s most recent poem to appear here was Void (December 2013). Lapse Cheryl A Van Beek She used to lie awake at night imagining the names of her children and what they’d look like. Never did have any. From one end of her porch, the shrub never looks that tall. But whenever […]
Every Day at the Facility
Patricia Deaton is a native of the foothills of North Carolina. Her poetry has been published in Your Daily Poem, Bay Leaves, and The Best of Poetry Hickory anthologies and she has won prizes for short fiction and poetry. From strong Irish ancestry (Killians and Carrigans), she is surrounded by song-writing and speech-writing siblings. Writing […]
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