Gale Acuff | 2 Poems
Sometimes people die but of course they do all the time, not the same people that is and not the all at once and not really all the time--each in…
Cameron Brooks | 6 New Poems
Late Fall, Running Along the River Black walnuts punctuate both banks, straining stiffly against the cold smoke sky like forlorn roots from a forest planted upside down by conniving Nephilim,…
Peter Mladinic | 3 Poems
House Calls Ours had more than one by one doctor, James Vaught, to everyone Dr. Vaught. I never thought about all his calls to all his patients. His leather bag,…
Marc Hawkins | Killer Whale Coral
Killer Whale Coral Negative space creates the stick figure, feeling, overly-visible, this page’s symbols existence for you, yet the intense brilliance remains macroscopic in view —hell bent, intent is the…
Pavel Frolov | Milk Poem 18
Clotted Cream The Making of Clotted Cream requires a commitment plotted in a shallow baking dish a quarter gallon of heavy whipping cream will be sitting in the oven for…
Anna Schmeer | Milk Poem 17
warm milk i remember the first glass of warm milk i ever had i was being babysat we were making cookies she put the milk in the coffeemaker to warm…
Kirstin Ruth Bratt | What Happens to Anders
Essay on craft and context: “Bullet in the Brain,” by Tobias Wolff In the first two-thirds of “Bullet in the Brain,” by Tobias Wolff, there is no backward motion. It…
Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra | Milk Poem 16
Half A Cup, Nothing Less Each morning my husband smells the refrigerated milk, stirs coffee, rinses the spoon, presents the cup in its glory. Sure, it’s nothing remarkable, but a…
Experimental Music Notation
The standardized five-line staff defines how most of us read and record music. The Smithsonian Magazine describes standardized musical notation the way we might describe writing — as a structure…
Francine Rubin | Milk Poem 15
December Milk Moon (monotype print) December Milk Moon Snow blanketing the hillside My baby suckling Francine Rubin is the author of the poetry chapbooks 'If You're Talking to Me: Commuter…