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By Bonnie Larson Staiger after Margaret Haberman’s “How to Make Espresso” In the center of the continentmy landlocked coffee machinegurgles and spits mannaand crema in my insulated mug.Not bad actually … Continue Reading A Straight Shot Between Friends
Steven M. Smith’s poems have appeared in The River, Hole in the Head Review, Rattle, Old Red Kimono, Plainsongs, Poetrybay, Ibbetson Street Press, Cabildo Quarterly, Better Than Starbucks, Offcourse, The Writing Disorder, The Worcester Review, and Mudfish. He is the Writing Center director at … Continue Reading Mrs. Hardy
by: John Zedolik For the past four years, John Zedolik has been an adjunct English instructor at a number of universities in and around Pittsburgh. He has published poems in … Continue Reading Apparent Pause
by: Aaron Sandberg Aaron Sandberg still plays his Sega Genesis. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Asimov’s, The Offing, Sporklet, Lowestoft Chronicle, Abridged, Giallo, Right … Continue Reading Hindsight
by: Aaron Sanberg Aaron Sandberg still plays his Sega Genesis. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Asimov’s, The Offing, Sporklet, Lowestoft Chronicle, Abridged, Giallo, Right … Continue Reading Trespass
by: Scott Waters Venus and the moonwent out last nightto set the sky on fire. I saw them in the morning–two laughing, dissipated,revived old girlstottering home acrossa wide black street,thumbing … Continue Reading Ladies’ Night Out
by: Scott Waters From the windowof our warm kitchenthe eastern skyblushes like the cheek of the young womanin the pink parkawho spent the nightleaning against a telephone poleacross the streeta … Continue Reading Blanket
by: Shana Genre Come to the hospital,she said.He’s dead. My father,body cold and stillears deaf sinewy form stretched,finally at rest,the number from the half- marathon marked along legsthat ran beside … Continue Reading Finish Line
by: Shana Genre Gong of swaying bell buoy& cry of black-backed gullsound my welcome.Beneath, mysteryof urchin, octopus, & humpback whalemove among darkness, caressed by rockweed. A rare guillemot landsupon a … Continue Reading To the Fort
by: Merridawn Duckler Merridawn Duckler is a writer from Oregon, author of INTERSTATE (dancing girl press) and IDIOM (Washburn Prize, Harbor Review.) Recent work in Ninth Letter, Seneca Review, Interim, … Continue Reading Girls Daring tides, Netart, OR
Angelina Martin is a poet, comedian, and waitress who lives in Austin, Texas. She has been published in such literary journals as Okay Donkey Mag, Crêpe & Penn Quarterly, and Sea Foam Mag as well as in … Continue Reading distracted
by: Dave Malone Dave Malone is a poet from the Missouri Ozarks. His most recent book is You Know the Ones (Golden Antelope Press, 2017). His poems have appeared in San Pedro River … Continue Reading Because the Professor Has Been to Contaminated Areas
by: David Sapp David Sapp, writer, artist and professor, lives along the southern shore of Lake Erie in North America. A Pushcart nominee, he was awarded an Ohio Arts Council … Continue Reading A Quiet Routine
by: Ivan Hobson Ivan Hobson is an MFA graduate from San Francisco State University, who teaches English at Diablo Valley College. Along with teaching, he is also a multigenerational machinist who works … Continue Reading The Importance of Toilet Paper:
by: Ivan Hobson Ivan Hobson is an MFA graduate from San Francisco State University, who teaches English at Diablo Valley College. Along with teaching, he is also a multigenerational machinist who works … Continue Reading Marek:
Thomas R. Moore’s fourth book, Red Stone Fragments,was published in 2019. His poem “How We Built Our House” won a 2018 Pushcart Prize, and his work has been broadcast on Writer’s Almanac and American Life in … Continue Reading Kale Salad Poem