Katrina Guarascio’s most recent poem here was Her Absence, published in January 2011 as third runner-up in the First-Ever vox poetica Poetry Contest. Thank YouBy Katrina Guarascio Thank you for the dance in the lightning storm, for the blowing wind that placed my hair in your eyes, and the shattered glass that bites at bare feet. […]

Salvatore Buttaci’s poem What Time Is Left was published as part of Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone in December 2010.  Mountain HikeBy Salvatore Buttaci Box lunch prepared, we hike the hills dotted with marigolds so still we think they’re asleep in their green beds, deep in woods steep with sun spill.  Ham sandwiches on […]

Dean Olson has published six limited-edition poetry collections. He is emeritus faculty of the Evergreen State College, where he taught economics, cultural studies and maritime history. He lives in Olympia WA with his children and grandchildren. His poems have been accepted for publication in Cascade #2 by the Washington Poets Association, Prairie Schooner, Minotaur, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, […]

Meg Pokrass is the author of Damn Sure Right (Press 53) and serves as editor-at-large for BLIP Magazine(formerly Mississippi Review) and before that, for SmokeLong Quarterly. Her stories, poems, and flash fiction animations have appeared in nearly 100 online and print publications including Gargoyle, Annalemma, Wigleaf, PANK, FRIGG, and the Mississippi Review. Meg lives with her […]