by Nathan Dennis | Jan 11, 2022
Kevin Blankinship See the fresh roses edging that fair snow wrote an Italian poet with a prayer he couldn’t see my garden, how the hare gorges the buds before they start to grow or having grown they fly off in a draft then fall to stony ground & lie as peat...
by Nathan Dennis | Jan 11, 2022
Melissa Sussens sentenced Melissa Sussens (she/her) is a queer veterinarian and poet. Her work has appeared in Kissing Dynamite, Anti-Heroin Chic, Capsule Stories and SFWP Quarterly, among others. She placed 2nd in the New Contrast National Poetry Prize and...
by Nathan Dennis | Jan 11, 2022
Ecem Yucel Standing all day, every day, near the entrance door of a chain bookstore, he offers to passersby his poetry book, tucked under one arm, a stack of twenty, maybe more. His long, greasy hair clumsily pulled into a ponytail where white strands dominate...
by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Charles K. Carter They say the sun will swell up and engulf this whole planet someday. I want to be swallowed up by pure sunshine. I want to be free. Charles K. Carter is a queer poet and educator from Iowa. He shares his home with his artist husband and...
by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Ed Doerr Like desperate & confused snakes slithering from the depths of murky lakes, blue plastic flues writhe up her throat to plug into a square, a box, a damned machine that, pitiless, prolongs this sullen scene with billow’s breath, each huff & puff...
by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Debbie Robson Pearl grey, smoke brown clouds dance all night and I lie watching mesmerised by the sight – a tango about the moon as clouds reveal then hide the white rays on the mountain side and the ocean now dark, now light. The world revolves. Brown...
