Another year, another 6 Pushcart Prize nominations! This year that meant reading through 475 poems and several rounds of cuts before sending the nominations. I have to tell you, I am overwhelmed by the quality of the work you send me to publish. Thank you for sharing your amazing words with me and the rest […]
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Waiting
Christopher Roe’s most recent poem to appear here was Ruins (October 2011). Waiting By Christopher Roe It’s getting late and the computer sounds like crickets its screen alight with hope and I wait for an email, a good night email from you. And I wonder what you are doing. Are you sipping wine? Are you in your […]
A Borrowed Life
Aarushi Vyas’ most recent poem to appear here was Deadly Feast (October 2011). A Borrowed Life By Aarushi Vyas Inspired by the bygone great, I delved deeper into wordy tomes Losing myself like dissolved foam into the water of the known Earlier a naive bubble exploring the boundless sky free from the shackles of self […]
Friends of Magpies
Amye Nicole Bird is a 37-year-old life-long resident of Utah. She is a married, stay-at-home mother of 4 young children and it is her wish to inspire the love of reading and writing poetry in her children as well as in others. Her work has been published in The Story Teller, Eye on Life Online Magazine, […]
Strange Grandmother
Mariah Boone’s most recent poem to appear here was Thirsty Elbows (October 2011). Strange Grandmother By Mariah Boone My mother-in-law Feeds crackers and cheese to my four-year-old daughter At midnight My mother-in-law says she wants us to visit But arranges no place for us to sleep that is safe for a small child My mother-in-law keeps her […]
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