L Austine has loved reading and writing poetry and short stories since she was a child. When she was 12 she wrote an epic novelette influenced by Go Ask Alice. Although she was a quiet child, she suddenly had groups of 6th graders clamoring for the next installment. Her writing has lain dormant for many years, but […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Oh Billy goat, I remember you
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas is a 6-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee. She has authored 8 chapbooks and her latest full-length collection of poems: Epistemology of an Odd Girl, newly released from March Street Press. She is a recent winner of the Red Ochre Press chapbook competition for her manuscript Before I Go to […]
Please Welcome Patrick Stevens
… our new Series Editor! Some of you know him better as Patrick Shea, a name he has published under (and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize under, see Calamity Rani). For those of you that don’t know him, he writes poetry, plays, screenplays, novels, short fiction, and press releases as needed. He also edits […]
Memo
Gerald Solomon’s most recent poem to appear here was Stranger (March 2012). MemoBy Gerald SolomonNow that we’re coasting away from the sunAutumn’s motors twirl brown leaves down,bits and pieces, daylight’s nibbled away. But still the persistenceof how (I assume) I’d arranged. Time will not tell, its integritypresent only in passing by. What you wantdoesn’t wait like a […]
The Preparation
Jekwu Anyaegbuna’s most recent poem to appear here was Bougainvillea (March 2012).The PreparationBy Jekwu Anyaegbuna It is evening in my eyes, although my skinis a shimmery morning. A clock ticksinside my pupils as my eyelids flutterlike the wings of a virgin bird. I see my hen returning home. I seeshe follows my pattern drawn with pieces of rice, to […]
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