B-Movie Dream by Tim Dyson The b-movie dream black and white, full of fog and thick smoke the color crumby ties and cheap suits Those lugs from the tenth ward won’t make a mug outta me, you wait and see, someday, I run this town And that blond dame singer at the old Parrot […]
Sacrifice by Gale Acuff
Sacrifice by Gale Acuff Miss Hooker’s my Sunday School teacher and she says that if you kill yourself you go to Hell hands down, there’s no hope for Heaven because suicide–it’s called suicide –is sin and almost the worst one there is, the worst one being I forget, maybe not believing there’s a God at […]
Concrete Ground by Anne H. Bakke
Concrete Ground by Anne H. Bakke It’s that bitter taste again it comes and goes like the seasons; the sun and the moon; the rain and the sky; the wind and the stillness. It’s windy out here, in the cold in the open so fragile I am out here Does it ever stop that feeling, […]
Bookstores Are Closing by Bryan Bradley
Bryan Bradley is a junior marketing major at the University of Pittsburgh and was raised just outside of Philadelphia. He believes that the worst characteristic a person can have
The Horn Blows at Midnight by Howie Good
Howie Good’s latest book of poetry collection is The Complete Absence of Twilight (2014) from MadHat Press. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely, who does most of the real work.
Ways of Speaking by Laura Grace Weldon
Ways of Speaking by Laura Grace Weldon I’m weary of those who talk in slogans stamped and packed by someone else, like long distance truckers paid to drive without knowing the weight hauled onto that dark highway. I want to walk, instead where I can read the body’s slow knowing. Where each thing watched long […]
Along the Dock by BZ Niditch
B.Z. NIDITCH is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and teacher.
His work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including:
Are You Awake? by Steve Klepetar
Steve Klepetar’s work has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Recent collections include Speaking to the Field Mice (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013),
Skeleton by Katie Booms
Katie Booms is a writer, visual artist, and advocate for community-building. She welcomes collaboration of all kinds and can be found on Twitter as @ka_booms. She earned her MFA at the University of Wyoming
Atokad Park: 1983 by Jeff Streeby
Jeff Streeby earned his MFA in Poetry from Gerald Stern’s program at New England College in New Hampshire. His poetry has appeared in Ginosko, Southwest American Literature, Los Angeles Review
Fridays by Bruce Taylor
Bruce is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Longest You’ve Lived Anywhere: New & Selected Poems 2013 and editor of eight anthologies including Wisconsin …
Astronomy by JW Mark
JW Mark is a poet living in Stow, Ohio. His work has appeared in The Ampersand Review, Eunoia Review, The Midwest Literary Magazine, flashquake, and The North Chicago Review.
Korean Echo by Tom Sheehan
Sheehan served in the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea 1951 and graduated from Boston College in 1956. His books are Epic Cures; Brief Cases, Short Spans; A Collection of Friends; From the Quickening.
Stillness by Ion Corcos
Offerings remain
sprawled on the road,
white rice to appease
Chiseled Shadows by Mary Rogers-Grantham
Mary Rogers-Grantham is the author of three poetry collections: It’s Okay: Poetic Memoirs, Clear Velvet, and Under a Daylight Moon. Her poems have appeared in literary journals