by LindaAnn LoSchiavo Our first apartment bordered ugly Hell’s Kitchen, a place for hanging your head out The window, yelling for...

by Chris Haven It came first to the waters. The shores thicken, nothing like life. Frogs, lice, biting flies. The buzz then the darkening...

by DonD.S. Martin When diverse colours in a forest blend the greens like olive emerald lime & jade the yellow of the daisies which...

by Amy Nemecek We followed him to the top of this great, high Mountain, grew heavy-eyed, footsore. I stuck one of those barking dogs into...

by Ace Boggess No cable TV. No internet. No power this morning. Gas leak, gas leak, gas leak— how the walls begin to speak through their...

by Laura Sweeney For the French teacher who drank herself into oblivion; for the nurse who couldn’t go through the courts because she was...

By Marjorie Maddox “If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present...

by Laura Reece Hogan The time of April ticks onward outside, on the hills, in the chaparral, under sagebrush, an awakening from the ashes...

by Trivarna Hariharan Standing still— an autumn tree embraces the joy of all it receives from the earth. Trivarna Hariharan is a student...

by Ace Boggess I dreamt my old boss into being. Twenty years invisible, & here she came, her unimpassioned face, stone jaw, tone flat as...

by Greg Huteson On the slate gray plain, paused when jabbed by rain bloodying as darts, I rub pricked parts hard with soggy hands, mull...

by Adam Tavel for my son James The boy with his shattered skull stitched runs his fingers over the bridge Van Gogh’s rainbow impasto arcs...

by Claude Wilkinson Anything miraculous, we try to rationalize, to explain in terms of less thrilling science. For example, I give you...

By Laura Sweeney (Acts 16: 13-15) I am the merchant of purple cloth, washing and wishing well the women─ battered mad abandoned women. I...

by Marjorie Maddox When all else goes, I welcome you in, pull you close; skin to skin. I welcome you in. Ban the banter. Skin to skin,...

By Trivarna Hariharan I know a bird who gave up her life longing for a spring that could never return. Trivarna Hariharan is a student...

by Greg Huteson The curiosity of stones above gray-banded surf, so neatly swept by tides with driftwood flecks and shells. The queerly...

by Tania Runyan You cried because you dropped a butter knife. Everything I do is stupid and wrong! I want to reach into your...

By Ace Boggess No hat. Sunburnt, mud-flecked cheeks. He works hard, trimming bushes into elephants, piling leaves, digging a trench by...

by Sheila Murray-Nellis Every day for weeks smoke muffles the mountains. Particulate on the incoming breath flattens each hue to haze, as...