Hila Ratzabi
Capture

Hila Ratzabi - Capture

Poetry
Hila Ratzabi is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press, 2022), which won a gold Nautilus Book Award and was a finalist for a National Indie Excellence Award. Her… Read more »
Kelly Terwilliger
Fishing Trip

Kelly Terwilliger - Fishing Trip

Poetry
Kelly Terwilliger is the author of two collections of poetry and a forthcoming book combining poetry, painting, and prose. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in the US, Canada, and… Read more »
Daniel J. Rortvedt
For Sylvia

Daniel J. Rortvedt - For Sylvia

Poetry
Daniel J. Rortvedt is a writer, educator, founding editor of Vilas Avenue, and author of the poetry chapbook Layers (2024). His poetry appears in Lunch Ticket, word west revue, JAKE, Bulb Culture… Read more »
Jemma Leigh Roe
Ma

Jemma Leigh Roe - Ma

Poetry
Jemma Leigh Roe is the author of Running with the Hare, winner of the 2024 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Her poems and artwork have appeared in Sonora Review, Redivider, The Baltimore… Read more »
Merrill Oliver Douglas
Mannequins on Smoke Break

Merrill Oliver Douglas - Mannequins on Smoke Break

Poetry
Merrill Oliver Douglas’s first full-length collection, Persephone Heads For the Gate, won the 2022 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook… Read more »
Nicholas Barnes
sun’s coming up

Nicholas Barnes - sun’s coming up

Poetry
Nicholas Barnes is a poet living in Portland, Oregon, whose work has appeared in over eighty publications, including Redivider, HAD, and Cola Literary Review. His debut chapbook, Restland, is… Read more »
Kimberly Gibson-Tran
What Hope Is There

Kimberly Gibson-Tran - What Hope Is There

Poetry
Kimberly Gibson-Tran studied linguistics at Baylor and The University of North Texas. Her recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Passages North, Reed Magazine,… Read more »
Hannah Keziah Agustin
Wisconsin, Summer

Hannah Keziah Agustin - Wisconsin, Summer

Poetry
Hannah Keziah Agustin is from Manila, Philippines, and resides in New York City. Her work is found and forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. Read more »

Mannequins on Smoke Break

Merrill Oliver Douglas

Headless, soap-white, nude, they cluster on the loading dock behind Old Navy. Don’t they get bored with their breasts, all formed in the same mold? Here one stands with hands on hips, as if she’s rendered a decision. One takes a first slow step toward the stairs. A third, perhaps annoyed at the sight of the dumpster parked close by, has turned from the others and fumes near the tan wall. Not one scar among them, not one lick of fading summer strap mark or pucker of doubt on a thigh.
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