Poetry
Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s first collection of poetry, Either Way You’re Done (2017), was published by Sundress Publications. Her chapbook, Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015), was winner of the…
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Letter in the Shape of a Banyan Tree
Poetry
Sara Henning is the author of View from True North, cowinner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award. Her latest collection of poems, Terra…
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My Father in the Front Door
Poetry
Francine Witte’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, and Passages North. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press), The…
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Praise the wind in your face, the hill rising before you
Poetry
Rose Auslander lives on Cape Cod. Obsessed with water, she is the author of the book Wild Water Child, the chapbooks Folding Water, Hints, and The Dolphin in the Gowanus, and poems in the Berkeley…
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Poetry
Lisa Suhair Majaj, a Palestinian-American, is the author of Geographies of Light (Del Sol Press Poetry Prize winner), and poems and essays in many international publications. Her writing has been used…
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Francine Witte
Rowing in rough each night, as if our house were an ocean
he had rivered into, slicing his useless oars against the sudden wash
and warn of my mother, who looked square into his face where anyone
could see his wish to be anywhere else, or anyone else. But he never left,
just worked and raged till one day, he slumped over heart-attack
dead, face down in the supper my mother had prepared
for hours. Later she would have to learn to halve her recipes,
just like she halved her life. I waited for her to grow back
her missing self, like some kind of starfish, but she never did.
Just kept watching the doorway to see what would fill it next.
Maybe the sun that just kept rising in the sky to a high soprano
or the world itself that kept doubling and tripling as she waited inside.
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