Kate’s work has been published in The Susquehanna Review, ditch, Third Wednesday, Barrier Island Review, Verandah Literary Journal, Grasslimb, Kill Poet, MiPoesias, The Junk Lot Review, The Legendary, The Missing Slate, and Existere. She has self-published 2 books, escape artist and hallucinations, cancer & the purple tree and is publishing a third book, Inheritance (unbound CONTENT, forthcoming in 2013). She mostly […]
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Celebration
Charlene James-Duguid’s most recent poem to appear here was Caught as I Lay Dying (March 2012). Today she gives us words to live by. CelebrationBy Charlene James-Duguid Believe in birthdays,And the maniaNecessary to perform in them properly.Stop Earth’s murmur given you,Gather your right,Tell the world,Proclaim existenceAt least for one of its days,Send forth the full-lunged scream,Today, I began.
Brave Smiles
Laura Zucca-Scott’s most recent poem to appear here was Modern Icarus (March 2012).Brave SmilesBy Laura Zucca-Scott It was the last ChristmasThe first we did not spend togetherAnd it felt differentWith more tearsWith more memoriesTasting love melted in lossYet we talkedAnd we hugged from a distanceVoicesTinglingAnd brave smilesWaiting for a new springThat never came
Peaceably
Sandra Forte-Nickenig’s most recent poem to appear here was The Red Sea Crossing (May 2011).PeaceablyBy Sandra Forte-Nickenig Strands of guitar notes creep out the windowroll down the rooftouching the groundharmoniously. The squirrel thumps the beat with his taildoves peck at seedsthrough the gleaming feederrhythmically and puppy lab laps up the sunshinesqueezing her eyelidsdeliciously Suddenly two jets pollute […]
Some Debatable Questions
William C Ross’ most recent poem to appear here was A Timeless Thought (February 2012).Some Debatable QuestionsBy William C Ross When did the land of the free and the braveBecome the home of the rant and the rave?Where are the eloquent writers and speakers,Now replaced by loud pipsqueakers?Why did the art of public discourse,Once so fine, become […]
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