J. Scott Bugher
A Cincinnati Boil

J. Scott Bugher - A Cincinnati Boil

Poetry
J. Scott Bugher is a writer, artist and session musician living in Indianapolis, Indiana. His poetry and short stories have appeared in a variety of journals and his novel-in-progress keeps him busy.… Read more »
Michael Lavers
Light Years

Michael Lavers - Light Years

Poetry
Michael Lavers completed an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His poems and essays have appeared in many journals, including College Literature, Smartish Pace, and Rattle. He… Read more »
Ash Bowen
Murder in the Red Barn

Ash Bowen - Murder in the Red Barn

Poetry
Ash Bowen’s first collection of poems, The Even Years of Marriage, won the 2012 Orphic Book Prize for Poetry and will be available from Dream Horse Press in November. Other work has appeared in New… Read more »
Laura McCullough
Nautical Tattoo

Laura McCullough - Nautical Tattoo

Poetry
Laura McCullough's most recent book of poems is Rigger Death & Hoist Another. Her other books are Panic, Speech Acts, and What Men Want. She is the editor of two anthologies: The Room & the… Read more »
Roy Bentley
One Wench in the House between Them

Roy Bentley - One Wench in the House between Them

Poetry
Roy Bentley’s work has been recognized with fellowships from the NEA, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Ohio Arts Council. Poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Shenandoah,… Read more »
Mark Wisniewski
To Bukowski, #43

Mark Wisniewski - To Bukowski, #43

Poetry
Mark Wisniewski’s second novel, Show Up, Look Good, was praised by Ben Fountain, Kelly Cherry, T.R. Hummer, Jonathan Lethem, and Molly Giles; his first, Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman,… Read more »
Hilary Sideris
What

Hilary Sideris - What

Poetry
Hilary Sideris’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Green Mountains Review, Memoir, Quiddity, The Southampton Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Her new collection, A House Not… Read more »
Richard Prins
Zunguka

Richard Prins - Zunguka

Poetry
Richard Prins is a New Yorker who sometimes lives in Dar es Salaam. He received his MFA degree in poetry from New York University. His work appears in Los Angeles Review, Painted Bride Quarterly,… Read more »

Zunguka

Richard Prins

In Swahili, "mzungu," the word for a white person, originates from the verb "zunguka,”
meaning "go around in circles,” as early colonists seemed to do.

 Flick. My spirit
cracks, pearls

of oil in a slim green tube. Globe
blurring on my fingertip. Spin,

pluck. Mudsucked babies
scream when they see me

land. I come in spheres,
convince fears. Of snow

men melting their capes.
Skin, a rare license plate,

sucking glare. I wish
I could burn less

quick. I race
sky up a cliff.
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