ZG Tomaszewski
Alphabet

ZG Tomaszewski - Alphabet

Poetry
Author of All Things Dusk, Mineral Whisper, River Nocturne, and several limited edition coffee table books, including Korakia and Stone Poems, ZG Tomaszewski is a gardener who enjoys arranging flowers… Read more »
Lance Larsen
Envy

Lance Larsen - Envy

Poetry
Lance Larsen is the author of five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa 2018). His awards include a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He… Read more »
Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Erosion and the Laetoli Footprints

Susan Blackwell Ramsey - Erosion and the Laetoli Footprints

Poetry
Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s work has appeared, among other places, in The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, and Best American Poetry; her book, A Mind Like This, won the Prairie Schooner… Read more »
Marcia L. Hurlow
Evening Before the Diagnosis

Marcia L. Hurlow - Evening Before the Diagnosis

Poetry
Marcia L. Hurlow is the author of one full-length collection of poems and five chapbooks. Her individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Chicago Review, Poetry Northwest, Poetry East, Cold Mountain,… Read more »
Donna Vorreyer
Holding On

Donna Vorreyer - Holding On

Poetry
Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. She lives in the… Read more »
Michael Beard
Mute Ghost of Your Grandfather

Michael Beard - Mute Ghost of Your Grandfather

Poetry
Michael Beard (he/him/his) currently studies poetry at the Bowling Green State University MFA program and serves as the managing editor for Mid-American Review. His poems have appeared or are… Read more »
Winshen Liu
自強號 (zì qiáng hào)

Winshen Liu - 自強號 (zì qiáng hào)

Poetry
Winshen Liu is a Taiwanese American writer who has worked in various roles in non-profits, education, and tech. Her writing has appeared in Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and Raft, and is… Read more »

Mute Ghost of Your Grandfather

Michael Beard

at the road’s edge, stepping along ghost asphalt and ghost dirt,
ghost blue handkerchief in his back pocket, listening to ghost
robins twining autumn thin, the ghost-lit moon, ghost memory

of a boy who loved him, you the boy, sitting in a ghost field,
ghost rain beating into you the blue ghost of longing, how the
dead touch everything away.
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