Poetry The Undercover Man by Stephen Dunn Before the normal barriers get erected, and silence takes on a texture, and our secrets grow Summer 2012 Read
Poetry Boardwalk Rhapsody by Wendy Mnookin My father and I stroll by the sea. He’s in a white suit … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry Winter Evening by Carol Hobbs In the kitchen, I walked a broad arc around the wringer washer – If it catches your hair … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry Elegy for Tim Johnson by Danielle Legros Georges Tim Johnson, you are dead though we spent Christmas together many years ago … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry Exposures by Teresa Sutton The snapshot shows three white-toothed grins, sunburned cheeks and noses. My brothers and I pose in front of a giant Reese’s Peanut … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry Schadenfreude by Paul Hostovsky “Leave it to the Germans,” said Ben. “They didn’t invent it,” I said. “They just named it.” “To name a thing is to own it,” he said. “It’s theirs.” Spring 2012 Read
Poetry Question by Paul Hostovsky If a man falls to his knees in a forest and there’s nobody there to hear his soft weeping … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry The Museum of Broken Relationships by Julie Danho Of course bears, wedding dresses, letters for Johns. But also the axe with butchered bed … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry A Poem to be the Poem that Was by Danielle Legros Georges winding itself down a dark alleyway when dusk was most dusk and threatening day with never returning … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry Three Takes on Spring by Charles Rafferty It’s spring and the deer that died on the ice amid a stippling of bloody paw prints … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry A Poem for Happy Endings by Charles Coe The hero gets the girl. The villain plunges to his death; his bitter face disappears in fire and smoke … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry Dangerous Children by Carol Hobbs That night, undressing me for bed, my mother pulled my sweater over my head with that slight claustrophobic … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry The Asylum Seeker by Barbara Boches She enters softly today, her firm step and swaying hips gone as she slips in, whispering to God for forgiveness … Spring 2012 Read
Poetry Recessive Blue, Left Handed, Red Hair, Webbed Feet, Widow’s Peak, You Name It by Karen Skolfield Blue’s on vacation. Your eyes turn white in this light, ivory, Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry Analemma by Karen Skolfield Even people can make u-turns, you said, and I spent the first day doing just that. Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry Dialysis by Dennis Hinrichsen Blood wants an angel but all it has is Monday, my mother Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry Double Exposure by Daniel Tobin 1. As the Gods Who All Things Know You would save the harrowed from their foregone fall, Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry A Lightbulb by Daniel Tobin Less than a gnat’s hum in the vast expanse, its inner antennae flame with your need. Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry Fly and Cricket by Daniel Tobin Its ear attunes homage to those wings that would entice a consort’s tailored song. Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry The Poet’s Solution by Alexander Russo So listen. You have to change. You have to stop being yourself. Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry Taxco by Massiel Ladron De Guevara Day opens with my elbow resting On a wooden table Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry Three Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke by Susanne Petermann Rather than escaping, this land accepts itself; thus it is gentle and harsh, vulnerable and saved. Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry Channeling My Sister by Karen Skolfield “You’re not even dead, are you?” I think to ask as my cappuccino mug slips to the floor. Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry When you die by Buff Whitman-Bradley When you die Will your lives attend your funeral Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry Quartet by Daniel Tobin Leisurely, the evening sky puts on the robe held up for it by a crown of ancient trees; Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry [white paper #31] by Martha Collins paper sheets of sheets robes of hoods winking clouds stirring storm Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry [white paper #7] by Martha Collins white line broken line white dividing right from right white sign house oh Fall/Winter 2011 Read
Poetry PROSODY by Kathleen Aguero The perfect measure drums across the line, but once iambic’s lulled the reader’s ear Summer 2011 Read
Poetry Inheriting a House Fire by Jendi Reiter There is a father with my face in my first city, his girl not me Summer 2011 Read
Poetry Lengua Tejana by Katherine Durham Oldmixon Your art silvering my eyes, your tongue in my mouth wanting sweet blood-red cactus blooms Summer 2011 Read
Poetry Early May by J. Marcus Weekley The hearse comes up the driveway with no news. Spring 2011 Read
Poetry dear bhikkhu: a eulogy by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde what will you will to endure, bhikkhu? Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Zone by Zone by Leslie Ullman If noise could be experienced as a form of light, daylight Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Give It Up by Jeff Friedman Give up the dragons tattooed on your arms in blue and red, your proud captions Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Close to Closure by Ben Berman Say someone dies and leaves an envelope buried in her underwear drawer, sealed Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Shrimp Boats Too, Biloxi by J. Marcus Weekley Those feet, those shadows, that stand of angels shredded in the back bay, rat-straight lines and low dawn skies, toes broken, Spring 2011 Read
Poetry All Men Want You by Wally Swist All men want you. Your hand on my thigh. The candle flickering. Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Ode to the Busker by Robbie Fraser Masses hurry to downtown destinations, yet for you, they pause to watch calloused fingers dance on fiddle’s fingerboard. Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Astrolabe by Dawn Potter Like a flour smudge on an old blue apron, A lunchtime moon thumbprints the sun-plowed, Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Spring on Ripley Road by Dawn Potter Five o’clock, first week of daylight savings. Sunshine doggedly pursues night. Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Hooks by Barbara Daniels A girl murmurs a blaze of words. She speaks to trees, Spring 2011 Read
Poetry What Will I Wear Over There? by John McKernan When I meet Princess Eternity & Count Infinity Spring 2011 Read
Poetry The Seasons Only Borrow Us by Leslie Ullman There is the moon, its silver hum filling the valley. There are the wings Spring 2011 Read
Poetry Mind Gives Up an Attempt to Describe the Scent of New Paper by Leslie Ullman In the prolonged swathe of color… Fall/Winter 2010 Read
Poetry The Puerto Rican Bombshell by Jina Ortiz Before the thonged bodysuit and heels, there were fan-flairs, feathered tail skirts… Fall/Winter 2010 Read
Poetry Her Gift by Dzvinia Orlowsky Mother promised her gift to my sister and me was no matter if we wanted her to or not, right after she’d die… Fall/Winter 2010 Read
Poetry Smoke on the Water by Dzvinia Orlowsky Even in China, the fans no longer give a damn about Deep Purple’s last world… Fall/Winter 2010 Read
Poetry Grandpa from the Dead by May Nou Chang He stands before me like a dream… Fall/Winter 2010 Read
Poetry Inner City Saint Paul by May Nou Chang Memory tells me my parents rose like early morning mists in split-second stillness, then gone, and that the sun never dropped lower… Fall/Winter 2010 Read
Poetry Coronation by Robert Lietz No poem intrudes — but the ponies breakfasting and geese seem unconcerned — discovering… Fall/Winter 2010 Read
Poetry I’m Sorry, Will Roby, or: Why I’m Not a Language Poet by Emily Van Duyne Will, I wither straight to you, from Atlantic City’s glitz, whatever sin Summer 2010 Read
Poetry 3rd House Down From The Corner Behind The Red Door by Andrea Walls Who would miss it if it wasn’t gone? Summer 2010 Read
Poetry Poem for Two Dogs, Hanged in Salem, 1692 by Lesléa Newman Did they hang their heads Summer 2010 Read
Poetry The Year of the Snake by Melanie Drane The shimenawa, sacred rope, hangs from the shrine gate, Summer 2010 Read
Poetry Mother Update, for My Brothers by Deborah DeNicola She knows who I am. She even knows when I wonder if she knows Summer 2010 Read
Poetry Rewind by Deborah DeNicola The walls of the two towers pick up their plaster and dust sucking upwards into blue. Summer 2010 Read
Poetry Thinking of the Anhinga by Helena Minton Bad habits persist: The nail biting, the bickering. Beside the sand trap like a bull fighter’s cape . . . Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry Through Birds, Through Fire But Not Through Glass The food is cold and so his mind drifts a blue fin angling toward deeper water Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry Radium City It was the watches I wanted, those radium dials Glowing like bomb sights Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry Coping Strategies at Sasakawa Restaurant by Laban Hill When she passes our table a third . . . Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry At the Window by Betsy Sholl If the doctor’s new machine is right, my eyes are turning into old window glass, warped . . . Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry Elegy with Sacred Heart by Betsy Sholl It’s always winter when I think of him, gray skies, fog seeping up from the harbor . . . Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry Notes from the Night Shift by Theodore Deppe Driving at dusk to the hospital to sit up with my mother, I paused at the crossroads where half a century ago . . . Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry Vertigo & Adagio by Theodore Deppe That particular part of the trip—the journey’s beginning— he hadn’t figured out. Large hills terrified him, and the train was climbing the north slopes of the Alps. Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry On Sex and Insects by Ben Berman Whenever Marwizi would put down his beer and start winking at those heavy-set ladies of the night, I’d try to slip him a condom before he slipped to the back of the bar. Who has the time? he’d say. I’m practically on fire. The closest my loins ever came to . . . Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry The Unseasoned by Ben Berman When, as guests of honor in Vietnam, we were served dog penis and the testicles sat on our plates like Venn Diagrams . . . Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry Hard Work by Kathleen Aguero Hope springs eternal but I couldn’t imagine how hope, before it gets to that bubbling place, forces itself through miles of dirt packed hard . . . Winter / Spring 2010 Read
Poetry Miss France 1993 [1] by Jina Ortiz Mon Guadalupe, I left you with my patriotic sash around my waist… Fall 2009 Read
Poetry World Wide Web by Kurt Brown It’s a little like Gulliver, pinned down by Lilliputians— the whole planet woven back and forth with invisible bonds of electricity… Fall 2009 Read
Poetry The Flea Market in Lynn by Jennifer De Leon We help our mothers Sunday after Sunday… Fall 2009 Read
