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Sara Backer’s Poetry

Sep 14, 2017 by

Too This, Too That At the party fire pit, he banters with women he has known since college. Funk from big speakers, eggplant...

Stella Carruthers’ Poetr...

Sep 14, 2017 by

A First Taste of Rainbow If he was yellow he dripped buttercups, pinches of kowhai seeds, pages of highlighted notes. Ideas to...

Salena Casha’s Poetry

Sep 14, 2017 by

I Want to See Myself the Way a Lover Does I want to see the sheet slide off whitened skin at the tug of an invisible hand down...

Laura Cok’s Poetry

Sep 14, 2017 by

Early Days We haven’t even told each other yet. It’s something like a still unspoken bet, whose horse will be the first to...

Vivian DeRosa’s Poetry

Sep 14, 2017 by

Love Poem for Someone I Have Not Yet Met 1. I trust that your hands will be the books I’ve reread so often the spine has...

Neil Griffin’s Poetry

Sep 14, 2017 by

Field Season: Waiting out the Storm Outside the jungle’s green lungs heave tubercular slicking the walls of our nylon cell...

Mohja Kahf’s Poetry

Sep 14, 2017 by

The Body’s Aramaic Flesh groans with memory of its ancient language, phrases cried at the parting of the birth canal of the...

Rachel Smith’s Poetry

Jun 29, 2017 by

Dragonflies The life cycle of Anisoptera also known as the dragonfly, consists of copulation, which lasts 1-2 minutes, then...

Poetry Winner Barbara Black

May 11, 2017 by

microconundrums unheard music you swallowed a songbird its beak stuck on the same wrong note this is no time for minor...

Poetry Finalist Sharon Black

May 10, 2017 by

Painting We don’t talk about the subject, its tilted head, the fat comma of its body swelling out of the frame. In the...

Poetry Finalist Angela Stubbs

May 9, 2017 by

I’m an Expert at Confessions I’d love to steal one of your brother’s vintage cars and go for a spin. If I said come...

Poetry Finalist Iris Dunkle

May 8, 2017 by

Charmian London Meets Harry Houdini That the heart is not shaped like a trick box though velvet-tongued, though bottomed with...

Angela Stubbs’ Poetry

Apr 10, 2017 by

Feedback of Desire I want to crack an egg on your ass, fix your chipped nail polish, read those poems you never...

Tyrell Collins’ Poetry

Mar 8, 2017 by

Divine I stand by the seafront, The sky is— An elastic band of colors. I listen from the Quercus Virginiana[1] The...

Shelley Tracey’s Poetry

Jan 9, 2017 by

Admission Approaching you uncertainly, not expecting an admission through a wedge of gates fanged by steel wire. ...

Kath Jonathan’s Poetry

Nov 15, 2016 by

Without You I’ve loved you between these bars for too long. Inside my cheek I’ve scratched a scar for you. Soon I’ll forget...

Robin Susanto’s Poetry

Nov 10, 2016 by

SONG AND FOG You told me rain was shelter, the mist on our lashes was stars, love grew on trees, and there was Summer under...

Hayley Antolos’ Poetry

Nov 7, 2016 by

X You know how to find them, my involuntary smiles. Tracing routes with your words over maps I keep to myself, somehow still...

Don O’Cull’s Poetry

Nov 2, 2016 by

Delirium Our sobriety faded, we kissed under the canopy of loud sad songs, in the saucebox of the bar, between a dim flux of...

Lauren Suchenski’s Poetr...

Oct 31, 2016 by

I Hate That Trite Resolution I hate your hand on the trigger pulling these cliches towards us with a firm, magnet grasp I know...

Daniela Elza’s Poetry

Oct 29, 2016 by

their thin mouths I slip through time sideways straightening up the dark. a note a...

Poetry Finalist Heather McNaug...

Aug 30, 2016 by

The Breakup I said, more loudly this time, “We’re breaking up,” then the line went dead, or the signal cut out—what do you say now,...

Poetry Finalist Addison Peacoc...

Aug 13, 2016 by

Love Does Not Look Good on Me Love has never blinded me, But it doesn’t quite match my eyes. And I hate the idea of a naked...

Poetry Finalist Kathlyn Meyer

Aug 12, 2016 by

Ragdoll She was physically rich. When she walked all hunker, swagger she could hear “mm-mm” a block before and after....

Poetry Finalist Pamela Dillon

Jul 16, 2016 by

She Went to Dance Oh, Fata Morgana, from my eye to the long line of the horizon I see you. Everything ripples in this desert...

Magdalena Wolak for Poetry

Jun 30, 2016 by

kintsugi I read about disorders and stars ...

Mary Hennessy’s Poetry

May 4, 2016 by

How to Get There from Here Your Ava Gardner mama alive, juggling penny-wrappers and jars of peanut butter—Auntie Mame in a...

Amber Johnson’s Poetry

Apr 5, 2016 by

i’m trapped i can feel it, the edge of eternity presses against the soul of me like your chest to my cheek & i know there...

William Ste. Marie’s Poe...

Mar 30, 2016 by

Possessions Not everything like a stomach ache, Only things that I didn’t know about, the things I couldn’t look for. Not...

Mia Romero’s Poetry

Mar 21, 2016 by

One Night i wake up with a start. i’ve been in a timeless deep, except i was always aware of you lying beside me and i’ve kept...

Dorothy Swoope’s Dinner ...

Feb 14, 2016 by

Sweet Valentine: At the piano you play chords of magic and mystery and maybe even a little hope. I feel the essence of this...

William Ste. Marie’s For...

Feb 13, 2016 by

Secret Valentine: We must never tell of a long ride home and how you said you were born in two places at once. We must never speak ...

Karen McDermott’s Bored ...

Feb 10, 2016 by

Sad Valentine: driving on our first date look what a green fire hydrant they’re usually red Huh, I said ...

Kaye Linden’s Poetry

Jan 26, 2016 by

How Can A Woman? Pale pink, but the slender cartridge and shiny, slimy sensual lip slicker vaseline-quality of the new lipstick...

Aaron Poochigian’s Poetr...

Dec 17, 2015 by

Song: Defiantly of Love Meet her at Grand Central Station and walk her down under the bridge where the wild kids play in the street...

Linda Rui Feng’s Poetry

Nov 6, 2015 by

Presidio: There to love the afternoon is to love in the afternoon. The colors are not the colors of flowers but of stones. You follow...

From the Editor

27 January 2018

We are proud to announce our 2017 Prose Contest Shortlist of authors. For fiction we have Barbara Black, Margaret DeRosia, Corinne Larochelle, Ray Morrison and Jessica Purdy. For non-fiction we have Lauren Krauze, Meghan Davidson Ladly, Samantha Juric, Celia Ruiz and Edward Varga.

We will publish two finalists each day, in no particular order, until the 31st when our winners will go up.

Congratulations to each author whose work was selected from a large pool of talent! And thanks to all our contributors and readers.

Check out our new Talk to Me interview with Cassie Stocks, whose novel Dance, Gladys, Dance is on the Canada Reads 2018 longlist.

LOVE

Diane

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