Photo by Eiliv-Sonas Aceron on Unsplash Your kid should bleed to death. It’s cool. Someone will scoop the flesh. They are picked up. …
Weekly Feature | Nadir, by Ronnie Smith
An island made blind
by the earth’s curve,
deafened by technology.
Weekly Feature | Another Day in America, by Courtney LeBlanc
Once a man with a gun tucked into a side holster walked by my table. I was eating brunch, …
Weekly Feature | Doloroso, by Gayle J. Greenlea
photo by Man Ray Somewhere the notes fell from our music — a dark indigo pooling around the polished …
Weekly Feature | Holographic Animals, a poem by Kushal Poddar
Photo by Manidip Mandal on Unsplash Animals, mostly holograms, flicker. The roads to the woods dream if they could meander back inside our …
Weekly Feature| The Gutting by Jeremy Proehl
My father hauled a dead sea turtle from a beach in the Florida Keys he coveted that shell, he’d seen …
Weekly Feature | Fragile by Gayle J. Greenlea
photo : Peter Shefler, visual artist and poet We collide in a tender fugue reeds with slender necks jostling against …
Weekly Feature | Mother Earth by Rachael Ikins
“Mother Earth was inspired by a painting a friend gifted me. I met the actual artist at a gallery event years later. Global warming and human impact on the planet are a constant ache in the back of my mind.”
Weekly Feature | Complex PTSD
Editor’s note: The day we received Taylor Grace’s submission I read “I’m the Comedian Who Just Confronted Harvey Weinstein. Here’s Why I Spoke Up.Survivors of sexual assault shouldn’t have to explain their experiences — or stand in a room with Harvey Weinstein.” The parallels are stunning. Share this pairing of poetry and prose far and wide.
Weekly Feature | Ethans: pro-“life”
by Paula Ethans
“what good is a flower
if it never gets the chance
to grow. blossom into a bloom….”
Weekly Feature | When will we START?, by Infinity
Photo by MohammadHosein Mohebbi on Unsplash by Infinity Tears fill my eyes as I speak for you Mother Nature! What have we come …
Three Featured Poets | Arting in Solidarity with Greta {from the archives}
featured poets: Lola Stansbury-Jones, Unimak Pass, and Michelle Wong
image: Greta Thunberg/Twitter
