Donna Vorreyer
Ash Wednesday

Donna Vorreyer - Ash Wednesday

Poetry
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), both from Sundress Publications. Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in… Read more »
Nicholas Molbert
Box

Nicholas Molbert - Box

Poetry
Originally from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, Nicholas now lives and writes in Cincinnati. You can find his work at The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, DIAGRAM, Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, and… Read more »
Kate Levin
Catching Up

Kate Levin - Catching Up

Poetry
Kate Levin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation, The Paris Review - The Daily, River Teeth, and… Read more »
Amy A. Whitcomb
Cause for Celebration

Amy A. Whitcomb - Cause for Celebration

Poetry
Photo credit: Karin Higgins Amy A. Whitcomb is an artist and editor based in northern California. Her poetry and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Witness, New South, Terrain.org,… Read more »
Emily Stoddard
Inheritance Rosarium

Emily Stoddard - Inheritance Rosarium

Poetry
Emily Stoddard is a poet and writer in Michigan. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Tupelo Quarterly, Ruminate, Radar, Dark Mountain, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, America, Cold Mountain Review, New… Read more »
Jed Myers
Night Song

Jed Myers - Night Song

Poetry
Jed Myers was born in Philadelphia and lives in Seattle. He’s author of Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), The Marriage of Space and Time (MoonPath Press), and four… Read more »
Jana-Lee Germaine
Oklahoma, Blackbirds

Jana-Lee Germaine - Oklahoma, Blackbirds

Poetry
Jana-Lee Germaine’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, december,… Read more »
Taylor Supplee
Passage

Taylor Supplee - Passage

Poetry
Taylor Supplee is a gay poet from the Midwest who earned his MFA from Columbia University where he serves as the Lucie Brock-Broido Teaching Fellow. A finalist for the 92Y Discovery Award in Poetry in… Read more »

Cause for Celebration

Amy A. Whitcomb

It is New Year’s Eve. There is a hambone in the peas and a badger hide on the wall and a four-year-old who wants to show me a couple of coots’ feet in a Ziploc baggie. Tucking them into his jacket pocket and heading to the door, he announces, “I’m going back out with the boys,” by which he means the men, inspecting a wild boar hung to dry. How did I get here? A city girl, also vegetarian. The fawn skull on the stoop goes poof into a dog’s stomach when no one’s looking. The other dog wears a shock collar and the women of other men wear maternity jeans, and the sac of eggs that spills out of a catfish into the sink is tapioca to me, is the bulb of bulbs atop One Times Square. Conversation around the dinner table comes to cuts of meat, and when I ask my partner what rabbit tastes like, he answers, “Tastes like rabbit.” He doesn’t know that in my version I add “my love” to tenderize what he said. And yes I know what that word means. It means countdown to happy. His hand on my thigh, grounding me. The rest is gravy.
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