Special Featurerbdd foy, special feature, poetry

D. Foy: Even the Dirt

Special Featurerbdd foy, special feature, poetry
D. Foy: Even the Dirt
Oscar Sutton

Oscar Sutton

Excerpts from Springsights

1.

 

Birdsong & rain:

  which began

first, & which began?

 

 

Dogs in the brush

  catch the scent

of lovers sleeping.

 

 

Even the dirt

  has begun

to smell good again.

 

 

2.

 

Summer’s first star

  bled the way

a wrist bleeds, he thought.

 

 

Ants, beetles, gnats,

  3 AM,

summer again. Damn.

 

 

Reality:

  mosquitoes

that bite while you sleep.

 

 

3.

 

Greasy burgers

  & the shouts

of kids back to school.

 

 

The ticks of fall

  drop & cling,

only to get burned.

 

 

Oleander

  blossoms trapped

in webs. He missed her.

D. Foy is the author of the novels Made to Break and Patricide. His work has appeared in Guernica, Salon, Hazlitt, Post Road, Electric Literature, BOMB, The Literary Review, Midnight Breakfast, The Scofield, and The Georgia Review, among others, and has been included in the books Laundromat, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and A Moment’s Notice.

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Lana Bella: Dear Suki

A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), has had poetry and fiction featured with over 250 journals, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, Plainsongs, San Pedro River Review, The Writing Disorder, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere, among others. 

Lana divides her time between the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever frolicsome imps. 

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Lana Bella: Dear Suki
Special FeaturerbdAshley Mares, special feature, poetry

Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands

Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press) A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press), and Killer (Ghost City Press, forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, Prelude, PANK, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com and follow her @ash_mares2. 

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Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands
Special FeaturerbdPhilip Schaefer, special feature, poetry

Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness

Philip Schaefer’s first collection of poems Bad Summon won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press and will be released Summer 2017. He is the author of three chapbooks, two of which were co-written with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry and has work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Thrush Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Bat City Review, The Adroit Journal, Baltimore Review, and Passages North among others. He tends bar in Missoula, MT.

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Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness