Special FeaturerbdDecember 27, 2016patricia connolly, special feature, poetry

Patricia Connolly: A Melting God

Special FeaturerbdDecember 27, 2016patricia connolly, special feature, poetry

a melting god

§§ §§ §§ §§ §§

of blonde

droplets still

perfectly, the second hand has

dinged the face

a backdoor breeds

familiarities with coffee

marks the counter

tops, remind me of

western

if western was

a place

in the future

of things

I won’t miss

an intake vent

painted

shut. I can hear

my downstairs

neighbor pace

Patricia Connolly's book Recluse received an honorable mention in Coconut Poetry’s 2012 Joanna Cargill Book Prize, and some of her poems have appeared in The Rain Party and Disaster, Other Rooms Press, Askew and The Bend. She has an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. She lives and works in Chicago, where she teaches sociology and literature for a community college.

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Special FeaturerbdFebruary 17, 2017Devon Wootten, special feature, poetry

Devon Wootten: Worst. Threesome. Ever.

Devon Wootten is a faculty member at Whitman College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, LIT, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Octopus, the tiny, Backward City Review, 26 – A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and The California Journal of Poetics. A former resident of Yaddo and Anderson ranch, he is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Montana and ABD in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Iowa. He lives with his wife among the wheat fields of southeast Washington. He curates wikipoesis.com. He's at devonwootten.com.

Special FeaturerbdFebruary 17, 2017Devon Wootten, special feature, poetry

Special FeaturerbdApril 05, 2018Brynn Martin, special feature, poetry

Brynn Martin: This Is Not a Tragedy

Brynn Martin is a Kansas native living in Knoxville while she pursues her MFA in poetry from the University of Tennessee. Her poetry has appeared in Public Pool and Contrary Magazine. She loves ee cummings and cats almost equally.

Special FeaturerbdApril 05, 2018Brynn Martin, special feature, poetry

Special FeaturerbdApril 23, 2018Milo Gallagher, poetry, special feature

Milo Gallagher: A Centaur Dreams

Milo Gallagher's poems have appeared or will soon appear in The Kenyon Review, The Grief Diaries, Crab Fat Magazine, Potluck Magazine, Anomaly, and elsewhere. He is an MFA candidate at Mills College. You can follow him on twitter @miloemilyg.

Special FeaturerbdApril 23, 2018Milo Gallagher, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdJanuary 03, 2019Tara Jayakar, poetry, special feature

Tara Jayakar: What Use to the Living

Tara Jayakar is a Brooklyn-based Midwesterner & freelance editor, lover of bread and space. She is the Founder/Bookmaker at Raptor Editing, & she holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Tara's work has appeared in The Shoreline Review, the Lumina Journal blog, MACK, andHeadspace #1.

Special FeaturerbdJanuary 03, 2019Tara Jayakar, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdMarch 04, 2019Corie Rosen, poetry, special feature

Corie Rosen: False Memory

Corie Rosen's work has appeared in Arts & Letters, Crab Creek Review, and Juked, among many other places, and has also been anthologized, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and featured on NPR. Her first book of poems, Words for Things Unsaid, is forthcoming from Aldrich Press in 2020.

Special FeaturerbdMarch 04, 2019Corie Rosen, poetry, special feature