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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »

The Day Before the End of the World

Brandon Hartley

The house is almost empty, open rooms
tongued by what little light is left.

Suitcases swollen like clouds sit
barely zipped in the corner of the living room.

What does one pack for such a journey?
If not shoes, then perhaps a map

drawn on the soul, folded in quarters
like a favorite T-shirt.

We lie on the floor where our bed once sat,
our eyes cow-heavy, hands raw from cleaning.

Outside, the stars begin to burn in the lie
they’ve been telling us for years.
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