Cindy King
Capacitor (Be Mine)

Cindy King - Capacitor (Be Mine)

Poetry
Cindy King’s work appears in The Sun, Callaloo, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Slowdown, Verse Daily, River Styx, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and… Read more »
Joshua Jones
Illustration of a Sea Monk

Joshua Jones - Illustration of a Sea Monk

Poetry
Joshua Jones received his MFA from UMass Boston and is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas. His poems and essays have appeared in Image, Southwest Review, and Salamander among other… Read more »
Adrian S. Potter
In Which Love Is a Kind of Falling

Adrian S. Potter - In Which Love Is a Kind of Falling

Poetry
Adrian S. Potter writes poetry and prose in Minnesota. He is the author of the poetry collection Everything Wrong Feels Right and the prose chapbook The Alter Ego Handbook. Some publication credits… Read more »
Travis Truax
My Sister

Travis Truax - My Sister

Poetry
Travis Truax grew up in Virginia and Oklahoma and spent most of his twenties working in various national parks out west. A graduate of Southeastern Oklahoma State University, his work has appeared or… Read more »
Jeanette Tryon
On the Road of Flotsam: Maybe There Will be Pie

Jeanette Tryon - On the Road of Flotsam: Maybe There Will be Pie

Fiction
Jeanette Tryon completed her MFA at Rutgers Camden in 2013. Her work has appeared in Sycamore Review, The Timberline Review, Peregrine XXXI, Apeiron Review, and The Evansville Review. She is a… Read more »
J. C. Todd
Orison

J. C. Todd - Orison

Poetry
J. C. Todd’s most recent books are Beyond Repair, runner-up in the Able Muse Press contest, forthcoming in 2021 and The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press), a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist.… Read more »
Meg Kearney
Starlings

Meg Kearney - Starlings

Poetry
Meg Kearney is author of two books of poems for adults, An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now, winner of the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award; as well as three novels in verse for teens, The… Read more »
Emily Rose Cole
Stricken Ghazal

Emily Rose Cole - Stricken Ghazal

Poetry
Emily Rose Cole is the author of Love & a Loaded Gun, a chapbook of persona poems in the voices of mythological and historical women, published in 2017 by Minerva Rising Press. She has received… Read more »
Amy Small-McKinney
The Doctor Said We Need to Return in Two Months After Further Testing Including Bloodwork

Amy Small-McKinney - The Doctor Said We Need to Return in Two Months After Further Testing Including Bloodwork

Poetry
Amy Small-McKinney’s second full-length book of poetry, Walking Toward Cranes (Glass Lyre Press, 2017) won the Kithara Book Prize 2016. Her work appears widely in journals, such as Connotation… Read more »
Nicholas A. White
The Ice Cream Brotherhood

Nicholas A. White - The Ice Cream Brotherhood

Fiction
Nicholas A. White lives on the coast of North Carolina, where he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from UNC-Wilmington. His stories and essays have appeared in places such as Pembroke Magazine,… Read more »
Susan Wyssen
The Thinnest of Threads

Susan Wyssen - The Thinnest of Threads

Creative Nonfiction
Susan Wyssen is a printmaker, weaver, and writer. She grew up in the Pacific Northwest on a lake carved between apple trees and forests. Her work explores memory and American mythology, particularly… Read more »
Elliott Gish
The Wedding Night

Elliott Gish - The Wedding Night

Fiction
Elliott Gish is a writer and librarian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has a Master of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University, and is a 2020 graduate of the Writer’s Studio program… Read more »
Vernita Hall
To: George Carlin’s Fleas

Vernita Hall - To: George Carlin’s Fleas

Poetry
Vernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and of the Robert Creeley Prize from Marsh Hawk Press; and… Read more »
Maria Zoccola
We Hold Our Treasures, We Bury Them

Maria Zoccola - We Hold Our Treasures, We Bury Them

Fiction
Maria Zoccola is a queer Southern writer with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. Her work has previously appeared or is… Read more »
Rebecca Cross
What We Knew Then

Rebecca Cross - What We Knew Then

Poetry
Rebecca Cross holds an MA in creative and critical writing from the University of Sussex. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, Hotel Amerika, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harpur… Read more »
Monica Joy Fara
Woman Alone

Monica Joy Fara - Woman Alone

Poetry
Monica Joy Fara was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, and has spent extensive time living, teaching, and adventuring abroad. Current and forthcoming publications include journals such as The Tampa… Read more »

Orison

J. C. Todd

no lark here, but another morning rising over the scree garden private is different than secret whose words go under swallowed moon sets in their chill too heavy for sky come, let’s break our fast or starve together slide out from under lives too clotted for breath why choose silence when speech is the only moisture in this drought
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