I’m all alone, floating down the Clark Fork in the middle of the night. I have a pepperoni pizza bungeed to the rear…
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New Poetry by Ellie J. Anderson: “Impact, 1984”
New poem by Ellie J. Anderson: “Impact, 1984”
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New Poetry by Pawel Grajnert: “Michigan”
New poem by Pawel Grajnert: Michigan
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Wild Delights: Patrick Hicks Interviews Brian Turner
Patrick Hicks: Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and taught English in South Korea for …
New Poetry by Sharon Kennedy-Nolle: “Soundings”
SOUNDINGS Things, your black b-ball shoes, loose-laced, open-tongued, curse one corner; your books, benched, t…
New Poetry by Lisa Stice: “Our Folklore”
Our Folklore Long ago, you were molten rock, and I— well, I spoke the language of bears. But now that I have been out…
New Nonfiction from Patricia Contaxis: “Luminous Things”
It is late October and the season is turning. The morning chill is not the surface cool of fog, the chill you feel in…
New Poetry from D.A. Gray: “Our Backyard Apocalypse”
We set small bowls of sugar water
on the garden’s edge. Bees were scarce
since the freeze which had almos…
Poetry from Eric Chandler: “Hetch Hetchy”
Hetch Hetchy There are two signs on The towel rack. One says, “cozy” and explains that The towel rack Heats your towe…
New Poetry from Lisa Stice: “Water Cycle”
No matter where we are, the oceans
meet us in some form.
I am small
and my daughter (who is only…
New Poetry from Ben Weakley: “Beatitudes I,” Beatitudes II,” “Beatitudes III,” “Beatitudes IV”
Beatitudes I. The Lord blessed us with knowledge. Twin curses, good and evil. Why else plant the luscious tree…
Poetry by Amalie Flynn + Images by Pamela Flynn: “#150,” “#151,” “#152,” “#153”
SPIDER / 150 Thick in Louisiana swamps Atchafalaya Basin Hot cypress shooting out Stretching in that bayou Where pipe…
New Poetry by Stephen Massimilla: “Wounded”
WOUNDED —to Laura Bleating thing without wool Thunder without sound Ghost of wooded peaks, of cons…
New Poetry from Gail Nielsen: “Something Like Nightfall”
SOMETHING LIKE NIGHTFALL something, like night falls slow, as if nothing in the world has ever moved but dista…
New Nonfiction from Ulf Pike: “Tone Deaf”
With a slightly youthful blurring of reality, sandhill cranes resemble pterodactyls in flight. Each year when they re…
New Poetry by Mary Ann Dimand: “Earth Appreciation” and “Lusting, Stinting”
New poetry by Mary Ann Dimand: “Earth Appreciation” and “Lusting, Stinting”
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New Poetry by Carol Graser: “Parkinson’s Triolet” and “Summer Isolation”
THE WIDENING FAULT / image by Amalie Flynn Parkinson’s Triolet I cup the base of your skull, catch precious ce…
New Poetry by Betsy Martin: “About What You Have,” “Female Figure in Photos,” and “To Missoula”
GRASSES QUIVER BEFORE / image by Amalie Flynn ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE In my dream Dad, age one hundred twelve, has…
New Poetry by Sam Cherubin: “Don’t About Not,” “Mermaid Tavern,” and “Emerald Inula”
Don’t About Not If I can’t or think do it like I’m …
New Poetry from Hannah Jane Weber: “My Childhood Smelled Like,” “Surprise Dawn”
MY CHILDHOOD SMELLED LIKE cabbage, salted tomatoes, and cracklings.the flume of dust I awakened when my fingers untan…
New Poetry from Alise Versella: “Parallels,” “Red-Breasted Sparrows,” “I Wonder If History’s Men Knew They Would Be Great,” “A Fierce Sense of Resolve”
PARALLELS The birds with convictionTap out their lyrics in the snowAnd their chatter descends upon the mountainsLook …
“Art-Making is My Light:” An Interview with Poet Suzanne S. Rancourt
As Suzanne Rancourt notes, her work is a bridge between disparate worlds, attempting to make connections between thes…
New Poetry from Eric Chandler: “The Things You Leave Out”
The Things You Leave Out after Yamamoto Jōchō, Jim Morrison, and Robert Frost You quote One c…
New Poetry from Liam Corley
In Which I Serve as Outside Reader on General Petraeus’s Dissertation [The current version of the Army’s Field …
New Poetry from Shana Youngdahl
After the Maine Tin Min Company Prospectus, 1880 The earth has veins we can open with our hammers. Follow the cassite…
New Poetry by Amalie Flynn for the WWI Centennial
Zone Rouge (for the centennial) 1. When the land was. 2. Full of bodies dead. And twisted. 3. When the fighting was. …
New Fiction from Ulf Pike: Son of God
I. Esses The warmth of his voice makes us wary of his intentions. He bears our sin of greenness like a precious burde…