LA Smith wrote this ekphrastic poem after seeing the photographs of Yosuke Yamahata. Mr. Yamahata was one of the first photographers to arrive at Nagasaki on August 10, 1945, early in the morning the day after the atomic bombing. His photographs from that day were shown publicly for the first time in 1952 and they […]
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Time Teller
Emily Spanos is a student at Towson University. She teaches second grade Sunday school part-time while juggling full-time college and a full-time job. Find out more about her here. Time TellerBy Emily SpanosYour arms latch around my left sideA silver crossed border surroundingYour rectangular-shapedIridescent, white colored faceLike inside a mussel.Pieced crushed diamonds glistenAs the light hits […]
Paradigm Shift
Kathryn Tate Jacoby’s most recent poem to appear here was Bittersweet (March 2011). Paradigm ShiftBy Kathryn Tate Jacoby As birthdays goI thought my fiftiethwould be traumatic but it wasn’t at all … everyone kept sayingthey thought I was forty. “I feel like thirty, but I’ll take it,”is what I said. Funny how we countthe chronological yearswe’ve lived […]
Door Knob
Gary Hanna has received 2 fellowships in poetry from the Delaware Division of the Arts and a Residency Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has won 4 small national contests and his poetry has appeared in more than 60 journals. He is the manager of the Writers Library in Delaware. Door […]
Storm Lake
Len Kuntz’ most recent poem to appear here was Presents, published as part of Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, in June 2012. Storm LakeBy Len KuntzThe waves remind meof days when we would skim stonesacross the flat face of Storm Lakerow boats on the far sidesun eavesdropping like a bored blister.You said we’d always be togetherand […]
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