Emily Bertholf earned her BA in English Literature Arts from the University of Iowa in 2005. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in print and online publications such as Litsnack, Postcard Shorts, 6S, and Lyrical Iowa. She lives in Milwaukee with her husband, 3 children, and an 8-year-old pug. Hero SongBy Emily Bertholf This page, fresh canvas invadedby black […]
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Housekeeping
Shannon Curtin is a poet from Portsmouth VA. Her poems have appeared at The Camel Saloon and at poetry readings throughout the Hampton Roads area. She is a grateful and enthusiastic student of The Muse Writing Center. HousekeepingBy Shannon Curtin The mundane taskscommanding our attentionafter we’ve dealt withdaily household maintenanceare tea leavesat the bottom of […]
Carnival
Claire Zhang is a sophomore at Yale University majoring in English. She enjoys reading and writing, and, like any standard young person of her age, social media usage. Visit her blog. CarnivalBy Claire ZhangThe night was cold; it bound our hands,left them for dead, and I had left my coatat home and reckless feet in flip-flops, […]
The Nervous System
Anthony Ward’s most recent poem to appear here was Snowballed (May 2012). The Nervous SystemBy Anthony Ward The city’s a nervous systemA minutia of intricacies consolidating functionsOverlooked by more celebrated organsVigorously driving networks of vesselsCongested by build ups of traffic–Carcinomatous cells spreading far and wideViolating our habitatWith industrious smoke suffocating lungsIngesting chemicals into our streamsThe malaise of […]
The Pen Is a Prison
Philip Vermaas is a professional copywhore, excessive drinker, lustful fool, fledgling editor, dilettante animator, occasional graphic designer, fatalistic romantic, self-indulgent poet, failing novelist, borderline mendicant, and bad son of the world. In addition to the poems he has cheekily published at his own Misfit’s Miscellany, his work can be read at Drunken Absurdity, online and in their […]
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