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Danielle Pieratti The sun: definitely a woman has a hand in it. A bee: backwards spear of...

Jana Katz Not every lake freezes, But the fate of a body of water Exists outside of my everyday vocabulary I am a passenger, fighting...

Grégory Pierrot It is ten in the morning A morning in and I shave my father Eyes closed and lips a-quiver Quivering lids and downturned...

Thomas Lawrence Long The white frame rises beside a county road You often travel and pass into oblivious night. Picked-over fruit in long...

Pamela Allen Brown Tonight, Dead Mother is large and bright. Look up to find her face, Black & Blue on Grey & White. Cold as wolf-tit in...

Bessy Reyna Habana Vieja, you wait like an elegant hostess yearning for the guests who sat at your dinner table. But now, the balcony...

Jiani Gi After an eight hour sojourn I reappear / with the skin on my knee split open as though I’ve outgrown myself \...

Ditta Baron Hoeber I you meet a person and in his face... what part of the word recognize... is recognize always history could it be...

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Brendan Casey Ah, 1978 - back when gas was 63 cents per gallon, Grease and Saturday Night Fever hit the big screen, and the Atari Video...

Kevin Carr My last two reviews were both long, the first more so. With the first, my goal was to analyze each song as much as I could...

Samuel Marx What comes to mind when you hear the words ‘American masterpiece’? For some it’s classic literature; Age of Innocence and...

Shane Cashman You would rather catch the plague than become the character of this particular story. You’ve put on a sparkly top hat and a...

Ryan Amato The man woke suddenly with his face pressed against cool tile. After a moment, he drew in a sharp breath and threw himself...

Jordan Rich She found it in the back of their t-shirt drawer. An hour earlier, Roland had left to go jogging. It was an activity he...

Jane Harrington Once upon a time there was a young queen who lay on the desert sand, covered only by a cloak of gold tissue bordered with...

Colin Brzezicki On a snowy morning in January, Graham Squires sat down to his usual breakfast of Colombian dark roast and toasted...

Samuel Marx His shift had just begun and already it was dragging on. Adjusting his five-panel hat, grey and well-worn, Andrew Weltz...