Bettie Coffin (she swears that’s her real name!) is an award-winning poet who lives in a cottage in the quaint town of Gaston, NC, with her dog Blue. She once submitted using her initials in hopes that she would be assumed a man and her poem would be accepted for publication by a motocross magazine. […]

Sarah Endo’s poems have appeared here before (Contributor Series 1: 9/11, The tv is on at work; Flora, a Garden-Variety Poem; Just Born)  and you have read and loved them. Note the way Sarah uses humor in this poem, delivered gently and in a loving, teasing manner. He’s a keeper By Sarah Endo He’s had […]

You read Bobbie Troy’s poem Dear Diane here in October. Today brings us more evocative poetry from this Virginia poet. Imagery serves to flesh out this poem, it also serves to register the continuity of man and war/community and isolation. This week we celebrate Veteran’s Day, so think about someone you know who happens to […]

Nancy Naigle is an aspiring novelist from … wait for it … southern Virginia, where she and her husband live on their 80-acre meat goat farm. This poem was written as part of her most recent manuscript, A Real Find. In this novel, Jill Clemmons is going through her late grandmother Pearl’s belongings and she […]

Howie Good is a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the author of 11 poetry chapbooks (4 released in 2009!). He has been nominated 4 times for a Pushcart Prize and 4 times for the Best of the Net anthology (could 4 be his lucky number?). His […]