Category:Words

Five Poems

Lindsey O’Neill

Poetry
Six months of living together, six empty Corona bottles consoling the counter,
he paid me back for my portion of the round cherry dining table.

I packed two forks, three glasses
five apartments in four days, rode the worn-out passenger seat

alongside the realtor, city shivering in concrete ...

4 New Poems

Charles Simic, Former U.S. Poet Laureate

Guest Artists Poetry
The hush of a summer morning
Bathed in the light of sunrise
Drew me to the open window
And the astounding beauty
Of every flower and tree in my yard ...

What’s in a Landscape?

Wayne Wild

Essays
Since the spring of 2017, I have been developing a Liberal Arts course that I call, “Interior and Exterior Landscapes: Identity and Expression.” I added the “Identity and Expression” at the urging of my students, who thoroughly enjoyed the discoveries…

A Comic’s Relief

Chloe Southern

Creative Nonfiction
“Do you have any idea how much weed I smoke with your mom?”
The room breaks into laughter. Will basks in his punchline, soaking up the spotlight. He saunters across the stage smiling, his eyes down, as if his next…

Five Poems

Brenda Miller

Guest Artists Poetry
Stake

as in burned at
for heresy or misunderstanding—

martyrdom or taken
in error, mistaken ...

Excerpts from “Alva and the Beast”

L.S. McKee

Guest Artists Poetry
These poems are excerpted from a series in progress currently titled “Alva and the Beast.” This project, through its central character Alva, explores tropes of passion, longing, loss, and mortality through the lens of nature and technology—and how these two…