Maureen Alsop & Josh Gottlieb-Miller
_IGP9448-1

Maureen Alsop & Josh Gottlieb-Miller - _IGP9448-1

Poetry
Maureen Alsop is the author of Apparition Wren, the collection was recently translated into Spanish by Mario Dominguez Parra from Tenerife, Spain. Collaborative poems with Joshua have appeared at… Read more »
Shiah IrgangLaden
A Cold Migration

Shiah IrgangLaden - A Cold Migration

Poetry
Shiah IrgangLaden is a nursery school teacher in Baltimore City. He studied creative writing at Goucher College and has a few pieces published around the Internet. In his work, he tries to grasp on to… Read more »
Mary Morris
A Love Supreme

Mary Morris - A Love Supreme

Poetry
Mary Morris has won the Rita Dove Award and New Mexico Discovery Award. Her work has been published in Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Blue Mesa Review, Gargoyle, Poet Lore, and Southern Humanities… Read more »
Beth Lefebvre
An Unwitting Accomplice

Beth Lefebvre - An Unwitting Accomplice

Creative Nonfiction
Beth Lefebvre earned a M.A. in writing at Johns Hopkins University. She is a former newspaper reporter and editor, and her work has appeared in Cobalt Review and Urbanite magazine. She resides in… Read more »
Steven Pelcman
Between the Lost and the Forgotten

Steven Pelcman - Between the Lost and the Forgotten

Poetry
Steven Pelcman was born and resided in New York, then relocated to New Orleans, and on to Los Angeles before coming to Europe in 1997. He is a writer of poetry and short stories who has spent the past… Read more »
Jo Marie Darden-Obi
Crème de Kathleen

Jo Marie Darden-Obi - Crème de Kathleen

Poetry
J. Marie Darden is an Assistant Professor of English at the Community College of Baltimore County, in Baltimore, MD, where she teaches Creative Writing, Composition, and Developmental Writing. She… Read more »
E.M. Schorb
Death Row

E.M. Schorb - Death Row

Poetry
E. M. Schorb’s work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Antioch… Read more »
Andrew Purcell
Descent

Andrew Purcell - Descent

Poetry
Andrew Purcell lives and works in Upstate New York, where he enjoys hiking, fishing, and working with Bruce Smith to complete his MFA thesis at Syracuse University. His work has appeared in Forge,… Read more »
Jen Michalski
God's Creatures

Jen Michalski - God's Creatures

Fiction
Jen Michalski's novel The Tide King is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press (2013; winner of the Big Moose Prize), and her collection of novellas is forthcoming from Dzanc (2013). She is the author… Read more »
Angela Morales
Gunslinging

Angela Morales - Gunslinging

Creative Nonfiction
Angela Morales' recent work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Los Angeles Review, The Southwest Review, River Teeth, and Arts and Letters. She teaches English at Glendale College and is working… Read more »
Marc Hudson
Habitable Space

Marc Hudson - Habitable Space

Fiction
Marc Hudson’s work has appeared in The Seattle Review, Qarrtsiuni, Echo Ink Review and Hot Metal Bridge. His story “Timo’s Creations” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He writes and builds… Read more »
Christina Cook
Homing

Christina Cook - Homing

Poetry
Christina Cook is the author of Lake Effect, a chapbook of poems published by Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry… Read more »
Harry Bauld
Persimmons

Harry Bauld - Persimmons

Poetry
Harry Bauld is from Medford, Massachusetts. He won the 2008 New Millenium Writings poetry prize, and his poems have appeared in Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, The Southeast Review, Verse Daily,… Read more »
William Arthur Delaney
Rigor Mortis

William Arthur Delaney - Rigor Mortis

Sprints
William Delaney is a native Californian who graduated from UCLA. He has worked in insurance, advertising, real estate, and other fields while supporting a growing family and writing when he could find… Read more »
Shira Hereld
Six Months

Shira Hereld - Six Months

Poetry
Shira Hereld is a freshman at the George Washington University, majoring in Theater with a double minor in Political Science and Creative Writing. Her poetry has appeared in Choate Rosemary Hall's The… Read more »
Nemo Shaw
Stop All the Clocks

Nemo Shaw - Stop All the Clocks

Nemo Shaw is a 33 yr old Scots-born emerging artist. He graduated with a BMed Sci (Hons), England, going on to work in the area of Community Development. He writes songs about life, love and loss and… Read more »
Luke Rolfes
Straw Man

Luke Rolfes - Straw Man

Fiction
Luke Rolfes grew up in Polk City, IA and now teaches at Northwest Missouri State University. He is a fiction editor at The Laurel Review, and his stories appear in Passages North, Bat City Review,… Read more »
Brandon Hartley
The Day Before the End of the World

Brandon Hartley - The Day Before the End of the World

Poetry
Brandon Hartley holds an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Once a high school English teacher, he currently lives and works as a freelance writer in Tampa,… Read more »
Michael Kimball
There Isn't Anybody Expecting Me Anywhere Tomorrow

Michael Kimball - There Isn't Anybody Expecting Me Anywhere Tomorrow

Fiction
Michael Kimball is the author of four books, including Dear Everybody (which The Believer calls “a curatorial masterpiece”) and, most recently, Us (which Time Out Chicago calls “a simply… Read more »

Crème de Kathleen

Jo Marie Darden-Obi

For Supreme Opera Diva, Kathleen Battle


a victual of seemliness
lightly salted snow
sounds like a
wisdom- pressed mortar of divinity
sewn with cold wind
thinned with a pestle of honey

infused with still clear air
where bare is the pinnacle- icicle
blue brain dew goes all pink spectacle
hugs, lifts. a mountain top
high five with
God

if there were a wish,
a broth of sin and bliss
a tickle brushed madrigal
rushed from the lips to
itch itch itch in the pucker of the wrist
(how to aspire to music like this?) it would be you

a verbal nutation
a spinning gold dance on crystal
a witness
a manifestation
a conflagration of ice
an asphodel, a jacob’s rod

if holy ghosts were sonant
they would intend themselves
to 14 metered pounds of flesh
blend themselves with milk-addled bray
lie awake and pray
to sound like you:

the gentle lifting of shoulders
the fizzling right now that pleads no contest
the sugar-child mama’s arms stroke of i’m blessed
the honor of sonorous chocolate. the best
proof that God upended currency and paid with you,
the voice of His own money
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