Jon Lampe
A Confession Between Lambert and Lansdowne Station

Jon Lampe - A Confession Between Lambert and Lansdowne Station

Poetry
Jon Lampe received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami. His work has appeared in Pleiades, Salt Hill, and Big Muddy, among others. Read more »
Sarah Carson
Baby, Your Daddy Called to Say He Gave Us Chlamydia

Sarah Carson - Baby, Your Daddy Called to Say He Gave Us Chlamydia

Poetry
Sarah Carson is the author of the books Buick City (Mayapple Press) and Poems in which You Die (BatCat Press). She lives outside of Flint, Michigan with her daughter and two dogs. Read more »
Linda Parsons
Divine Rods

Linda Parsons - Divine Rods

Poetry
Linda Parsons is a poet and playwright and formerly an editor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She is the reviews editor at Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, former poetry editor of Now… Read more »
Lis Sanchez
Foolish

Lis Sanchez - Foolish

Poetry
Lis Sanchez has writing appearing or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Salamander, New Orleans Review, Harvard Review Online, The Bark, Puerto Del Sol, Lunch Ticket Amuse-Bouche, The Boiler, Journal of… Read more »
Allison Adair
If Imagination and Memory met unexpectedly, one last time

Allison Adair - If Imagination and Memory met unexpectedly, one last time

Poetry
Allison Adair’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Boston Review, FIELD, Ninth Letter, and Subtropics, among other journals, and will be included in this year’s Best… Read more »
Danielle Mitchell
Interview with Girlhood Fears

Danielle Mitchell - Interview with Girlhood Fears

Poetry
Danielle Mitchell is the author of Makes the Daughter-in-Law Cry (Tebot Bach 2017), selected by Gail Wronsky for the Clockwise Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in apt, Hayden’s Ferry Review,… Read more »
Ann V. DeVilbiss
Spell for the Healing Chorus

Ann V. DeVilbiss - Spell for the Healing Chorus

Poetry
Ann V. DeVilbiss has had work in Crab Orchard Review, The Maine Review, Pangyrus, and elsewhere, with work forthcoming in BOAAT and The Laurel Review. She is the recipient of the Betty Gabehart Prize… Read more »
Kateema Lee
Transcript of the Unnamed

Kateema Lee - Transcript of the Unnamed

Poetry
Kateema Lee is a Washington, D.C. native. Her recent work has been published in print and online journals such as Pirene’s Fountain, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, African American Review, Gargoyle, and… Read more »

Foolish

Lis Sanchez

i. This cherry tree has uncupped its blossoms too soon I’ve never viewed limbs so bowed tonight’s torrents could obliterate them Branches rock petals clutch Hunched in a coverlet I'll stay on the porch till sunup Is it foolish to believe that by seeing them through the cruelest spasms of the storm I'll be given some say ii. My father frowns out his nursing home window— agitated— he can't pluck the lodestar from the constellation flickering above the shuddering industrial silos he calls City of Woes. I trim his beard; he jerks back, studies me: You’re late, Kid. I brush away the clippings that lie clustered on his collarbones like white inflorescences. Lis, I remind. I’m Lis. Shift’s end, the nurse plods in, replaces the paper diaper, snugs the blanket, closes the blind against the approaching winds. Ashamed, he thanks her. He's sorry he kept her so deep into the night, far from her daughters, whose names he articulates. Later, his hands covering my own, his voice wavering: My Cordelia. iii. this night the storm behind us I want for you to see beyond the soot and the city’s greasy lights I want the stars to bloom for you in the deepest particles of your skin tomorrow let them gather your breath into a luminous bouquet but this night — I can’t make you see me forever shaken
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