Issues Archive

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2024 Issue

Published October 1st:

Jackie McClure – When the Column Blooms (poetry)
Alice Lowe – Hawaiian Sunset (nonfiction)
David Athey – In My Father’s Backyard (poetry)
Carolyn Chilton Casas – Imprint (poetry)
Patricia Hope – Auction Circus (poetry)
Sherri Wright – The Things I’ve Carried (nonfiction)
Wesley Sims – If I Were a Bird (poetry)
Bonnie Demerjian – Words Will Have to Wait (poetry)
Sharon Whitehill – Laughter (poetry)
Martha Ellen Johnson – Let’s Fly Away (poetry)

Published November 1st:

Nicole Farmer – Injury Lessons (poetry)
Summer Hammond – Rhubarb Pie Day (nonfiction)
Stacie Eirich – Houston in August (poetry)
Steve Cushman – My Wife Explains How My New Book is One Long Love Poem (poetry)
Nicole Hirt – Sikwate (poetry)
Theresa Wyatt – On the Deck (poetry)
Michael Magee – Golden-Crowned Kinglets (poetry)
Marilyn Paolino – Lazy Man’s Pie (nonfiction)
Miguel Rodriguez Otero – Landscapes (poetry)
Laura DeHart Young – One Long Song (poetry)

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2024 Issue

Published August 1st:

Meredith Escudier – Way Back When (nonfiction)
Michael Lyle – Priced to Go (poetry)
Katharine Davis – The Marimekko Dress (poetry)
Anne Rankin – Going up Gorham (poetry)
Nancy Nowak – After Hours (Guggenheim Museum, 1984) (poetry)
Deborah Wessell – Estate Sale (fiction)
Jan Mordenski – Sometimes the moon (poetry)
Carolyn Jabs – Skipping (poetry)
Sheila Dietz – How Light Travels (poetry)
Leanne Rose Sowul – New Shorts (nonfiction)

Published September 1st:

Russell Rowland – Footwriting (poetry)
Julie Lockhart – Clare’s Boots (nonfiction)
Lana Hechtman Ayers – The Big Dipper (poetry)
Cheryl Sadowski – Farewell, in black and white (nonfiction)
Leslie Lisbona – Impossible Love (nonfiction)
Peter A. Witt – House Plants Lament (poetry)
Ellen Notbohm – The Breakfast Whisperer (nonfiction)
Jennifer Campbell – Hiding Behind a Book (poetry)
Julie Evan Smith – Marilyn Monroe’s Lipstick (poetry)
Sandra Marilyn – At the Heart of It (nonfiction)

JUNE/JULY 2024 Issue

Published June 1st:

Penelope Scambly Schott – I drove him back to the airport (poetry)
Leslie Lisbona – Washington Heights (nonfiction)
John Hoyte – Bookmark (poetry)
Nancy Byrne Iannucci – Spring (poetry)
Rachel Beachy – Swing (poetry)
Nancy Kay Peterson – Logging the Land (poetry)
Kandi Maxwell – The Horses (nonfiction)
Beate Sigriddaughter – Because It’s Beautiful (poetry)
Sandra Marilyn – The Laundry Laughers (nonfiction)
Christine Andersen – The Birdhouse (poetry)

Published July 1st:

Stacie Eirich – At the Lakefront, beside Sunshine (poetry)
Daphne Riddle – Sparks (poetry)
Robert Harlow – A Life Lived in Common (poetry)
Emily Lacey – Something Different (poetry)
Joseph O’Day – At Home (nonfiction)
Stephen J. Cribari – Peregrine (poetry)
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew – Maternal Fabric (nonfiction)
Mary Baca Haque – Notes We Cannot See (poetry)
William Swarts – Annual Report (poetry)
Jennifer Pinto – Keeping Diana Alive (nonfiction)

APRIL/MAY 2024 Issue

Published April 1st:

Carol E. Anderson – Lucky Girl (nonfiction)
Sharon Whitehill – Her September Familiar (poetry)
Robbie Hess – Churning (poetry)
Barbara Santucci – The Nest (poetry)
Sheila Rittenberg – Full Circle (nonfiction)
Robin Greene – Everything You’ve Ever Loved (poetry)
Michael Carrino – This April (poetry)
Liz deBeer – Blue Jay (nonfiction)
Richard Higgins – The Block (poetry)
Peter Devonald – A Necessary Pause in Transmission (poetry)

Published May 1st:

Amelia Díaz Ettinger – i touch this ripe tomato (poetry)
Joan Potter – The Night Nurse (nonfiction)
Susan Zwingli – Just Kids (poetry)
Tasneem Sadok – Anapana (poetry)
J.T. Whitehead – The Fool: 0 (poetry)
Ginny Bartolone – City Sounds (nonfiction)
Linda Allison – For the Love of Color: Ochre (poetry)
Anne Bower – Muscle Memory (poetry)
Stacie Eirich – Atlanta International, Concourse D (nonfiction)
Stephanie Shafran – One Out of Ten (nonfiction)

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024 – Two-Year Anniversary Issue

Published on February 1st:

Jeff Burt – Breath (poetry)
Vicki Addesso – Summer’s End (nonfiction)
Charlie Steak – acquisition (poetry)
Ellen Skilton – A Night in Alaska (poetry)
Diana Raab – Storms (poetry)
Konrad Ehresman – Aviary (poetry)
Lisa Low – And Yet This Life (poetry)
Melanie Faith – Buy the Fanciful Ones: A Tale of New Shoes (nonfiction)
Andrew McBride – On the Mend (poetry)
Paul Hadella – Angel (fiction)

Published on March 1st:

Leslie Lisbona – Hell’s Kitchen (nonfiction)
Alexander Etheridge – Birthplace (poetry)
Sharon Scholl – Early Spring (poetry)
Arthur Ginsberg – The Pillars of Creation* (poetry)
Michael S. Glaser – Despair (poetry)
Douglas Cooper – French Broad River (poetry)
Diane Choplin – Empty Netters (nonfiction)
Cecil Morris – suddenly the third day of spring (poetry)
Brian C. Billings – Another One Gone South (poetry)
D.S. Maolalai – March Weather (poetry)

DEC 2023/JAN 2024 – The Winter, Holiday, & Reflection Issue

Published on December 2nd, 2023:

Peter A. Witt – Expectations (poetry)
Christine Andersen – Echo (poetry)
Brian C. Billings – Eleven Elves in Eight Elfchens (poetry)
Sherri Wright – Longing for a Close Family (nonfiction)
Jennifer Campbell – Cordially (in Winter) (poetry)
Melissa Wold – Thrift Shop Santa (poetry)
Marianne Lonsdale – Nutcracker Memories (nonfiction)
Suzy Harris – Fear of Falling (poetry)
Amelia Díaz Ettinger – Feliz Año Nuevo/Happy New Year (poetry)
Charlene Stegman Moskal – The Radiator (poetry)

Published on December 17th, 2023:

J.T. Homesley – This peculiar work (poetry)
C. DeForest Switzer – Shadows and Silhouettes (poetry)
Diane Funston – The Walk to Ma’s House (nonfiction)
Allison Baldwin – Target, at Christmas (poetry)
Tarah Friend Cantore – How Poppi Met Nonni (nonfiction)
Steve Wilson – San Marcos Christmas (poetry)
Nancy Kay Peterson – Christmas 2000 (poetry)
Kersten Christianson – If Not Glitter, If Not Gold (poetry)
Ernest Troost – Christmas (fiction)
Rohan Buettel – Another Christmas (poetry)

Published on December 31st, 2023:

Alexandra Newton Rios – January 1 (poetry)
Terri Watrous Berry – Jack and the Box (nonfiction)
K.L. Johnston – Tanka for the New Year (poetry)
Inge Sorensen – Christmas Dessert (haiku, poetry)
Jennifer Smith – Blue Snow Globe (poetry)
Gregory Cusumano – Days After Christmas (fiction)
Jeannette Tien-Wei Law – Brixen in Winter (poetry)
Antonia Wang – Two Dolls and Three Kings (nonfiction)
Bonnie Demerjian – Sing a Song of Midnight (poetry)
Cecil Morris – Some Kinder Resolutions for a Better Year (poetry)

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2023

Stephen J. Cribari – Feeding Time (poetry)
Angela Kasumova – Letter to an Estranged Father (nonfiction)
Melissa Witcher – Say It With a Smile (fiction)
Sharon Whitehill – Circumlocution When Speaking of Water (poetry)
Suzannah Watchorn – Beyond Vision (poetry)
N.G. Haiduck – How to Iron (nonfiction)
Peter T. Cavallaro – Lord of Depths (poetry)
Lisa Ashley – The Rains of November Have Come Again (poetry)
Margaret D. Stetz – Class Assignment (poetry)
Robert Nisbet – Glancing Down at the Carnival (poetry)
Stacie Eirich – For Every October (nonfiction)
Paul Cummins – A Good Night (poetry)
Christine Andersen – Wild (poetry)
Brian Christopher Giddens – Walk a Block (poetry)
Peter A. Witt – On Schedule (poetry)
Colleen W. – Songs in the Subway (nonfiction)
Travis Stephens – Reminder (poetry)
John Zedolik – Framed Declaration (poetry)
Bonnie Demerjian – Wednesday in the Neighborhood (poetry)
Anne Leigh Parrish – Perhaps (poetry)
Burt Rashbaum – Late Aspen (poetry)

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2023

Amy Akiko – Artificial Lawn (fiction)
R.M. Kinder – The Visit (poetry)
Barbara Siegel Carlson – The Scent (poetry)
Cynthia Bernard – Wandering the Mojave (poetry)
Kristin Van Tassel – deepsea census (poetry)
M.S. Rooney – Wouldn’t it be something (poetry)
Regina Berg – In My Mother’s Last Garden (poetry)
Sarah Das Gupta – Birds at Dawn (poetry)
Sharon Scholl – Fall Sun (poetry)
Angela Townsend – Ruth and Oscar (nonfiction)

JULY 2023

Cheryl Sadowski – My Father’s Coat, in Three Acts (nonfiction)
Mary Zelinka – Roller Coaster (nonfiction)
Paul Hostovsky – Beauty (fiction)
Christine Brooks – the Irish goodbye (poetry)
Kenneth M. Kapp – Whooshie and Me (fiction)
Rosalie Hendon – Evanston in June (poetry)
Sarah Das Gupta – The Pink Rosette (fiction)
John Surowiecki – Last October (poetry)
Alexandra Newton Rios – Ser Mujer 2023 (poetry)
Carole Greenfield – Some Days (poetry)
Brian Daldorph – Changes (fiction)
Joshua Zeitler – Queen Elizabeth II died while I was mowing the lawn (poetry)
Thomas Feeny – The Garden (poetry)

JUNE 2023

Tarah Friend Cantore – The Bird’s View (poetry)
Joan Potter – The Old Photographs (nonfiction)
Susan Shea – Wizardry (poetry)
Andy Larter – Magpie (fiction)
Deborah Doolittle – John Greenleaf Whittier to the Root-Bound Marjoram (poetry)
Angela Kasumova – For Sale: Kawai Upright Piano, $1,250 (nonfiction)
Ruth Holzer – The Dawn Chorus (poetry)
Sherri Wright – Haleakala Sunrise (nonfiction)
Wally Swist – After the Blizzard (poetry)
Alice Lowe – Duck Duck Goose (nonfiction)
Riley Davis – My one true love is golden like the sun (poetry)
Brett Scott – Julia and Chang (fiction)
Candy Hamilton – Defining Silence (nonfiction)

MAY 2023

Alice Collinsworth – Wolves (poetry)
Raymond Berthelot – What They Can’t Take Away (poetry)
Clarence Allan Ebert – On Observing My Daughter At Breakfast (poetry)
Tracey Ormerod – The Leaving Moment (nonfiction)
Sharon Scholl – Late Love (poetry)
N.T. Chambers – Awakening (poetry)
Diane Webster – Raindrops (poetry)
Stacie Eirich – “Hope like Sunlight” (poetry)
Lexie Kauffman – The Smart One (fiction)
Peter McNamara – Reverie (poetry)
Debbie Theiss – Common Loon (poetry)
Luke Nadeau – Winter, Snow (poetry)
Dale Ritterbusch – As Simple as That (poetry)

APRIL 2023

Nicole Farmer – How to Walk Your Dog (poetry)
Elizabeth Hereford – Rise (poetry)
Nancy Machlis Rechtman – The Power of the Circle (poetry)
Serena Burman – Picnic on a Plane (fiction)
Simone Kadden – When Stars Align (nonfiction)
Trent Busch – Epithalamium (poetry)
Robert F. Bradford – Hide and Seek (poetry)
Ann Bracken – Counting (nonfiction)
G. Milton – The House (poetry)
Esther Sadoff – I learned self-destruction from a cartoon (poetry)
Laura & Stephen Feldman – The Phone Call (fiction)
Peter A. Witt – Memories of Old Things (poetry)
Marcia Yudkin – The Litterer and I (nonfiction)

MARCH 2023

Stacie Eirich – Breaking Open Joy (poetry)
Nicole Farmer – home for the holidays (poetry)
Janice Northerns – The Landscape of Childhood (nonfiction)
Corinne Walsh-Williams – 62 (poetry)
Erin Lunde – Strategies for Defeat (poetry)
Daniella DiMaggio – The Trapped Door (nonfiction)
Brian Billings – From One Adult to Another (poetry)
Jeannette Tien-Wei Law – Trimester to St. Patrick’s (poetry)
Fred Miller – Shells (poetry)
E.J. Mathews – The Universe on Rewind (poetry)
Gloria Lauris – Don’t Miss the Boat (nonfiction)
David Sapp – Gypsies (poetry)
Jane Perry – Ginger Cake (poetry)
Victor Pearn – hi tech goodbye tech (poetry)
Charlene Stegman Moskal – Bellflower (poetry)

FEBRUARY 2023 – One-Year Anniversary Issue

Heather Bartos – Resolutions (nonfiction)
Wendy Bloom – Reflected Light (poetry)
Susan Hodara – Dear Chair (nonfiction)
Dawn L. C. Miller – The Hip (poetry)
Michele Johnson – small (nonfiction)
Marianne Brems – Feather Meme (poetry)
Alison Arthur – Thumbing a Ride (fiction)
Corey Bryan – that’s enough (poetry)
Francis Conlon – The Books We’ll Never Read (poetry)
Susan Mannix – Tony Told Me (nonfiction)
Lauren Oertel – Remember Me (poetry)
Susan Miller – Stage IV (poetry)
Foster Trecost – Fish Tales (fiction)
Leslie Lisbona – Taboule (nonfiction)
Jennifer Campbell – Seen (poetry)
Nancy Byrne Iannucci – Heartbreak Hotel (poetry)

JANUARY 2023

Mona Mehas – “Christmas Tree Thrown Away” (poetry)
Cindy Jones – “The Gift” (nonfiction)
Pama Lee Bennett – “Faculty Recital” (nonfiction)
Lilyth Coglan – “Hide and Seek with Robin” (poetry)
Charlene Lyon – “Snow” (poetry)
Ron Theel – “The Rock Garden” (nonfiction)
E.H. Jacobs – “Rapid Transit” (fiction)
Robert Nisbet – “Later” (poetry)
Peter Witt – “Garden Reading” (poetry)
Susan Reese – “The Leavings” (nonfiction)
Jeff Burt – “A Birthday Meteor” (poetry)
Gordon W. Mennenga – “A Windy Day on Sans Souci Drive” (poetry)
Joan Potter – “The Blur” (nonfiction)
Clarence Allan Ebert – “Stealing a Night from the Stars” (poetry)
Ben Westlie – “Hiding from the Moon” (poetry)
Melissa Knox – “The Lamp in the Room” (nonfiction)
Elodie Barnes – “Rooting” (fiction)

DECEMBER 2022 – The Winter, Holiday & Reflection Issue

Zan Bockes – “In Deep December” (fiction)
Briena Sohns – “My Old Air Conditioner” (poetry)
Derville Quigley – “The Christmas Tree Shop” (fiction)
Mary Kate Bunstine – “Birthday Presence” (poetry)
Austin Gilmore – “Spruce” (fiction)
RC deWinter – “yuletide carol” (poetry)
Brant Short – “The Fourth Gift” (poetry)
Becky A. Benson – “Nourish” (nonfiction)
Sarah Bruenning – “A Rare Snowstorm” (poetry)
Ralph La Rosa – “Christmastide” (poetry)
Crystal McQueen – “Snow Days” (nonfiction)
John Grey – “Separation Anxiety” (poetry)
Jennifer L. Gauthier – “The Willow in Winter” (poetry)
Will Neuenfeldt – “Children’s Cookies” (poetry)
Kraig Kiehl – “Help?” (fiction)
Marianne Lonsdale – “Parting Gift” (nonfiction)
Victoria Clayton – “Mount Kenashi” (nonfiction)

NOVEMBER 2022

Jesse Curran – “What a Nature Poem Can Learn from a Love Poem” (nonfiction)
Ursula McCabe – “Sweet Moon” (poetry)
Alison Sanders – “Dear Anthony” (fiction)
Anna Stolley Persky – “My Mother, Feminism, and Barbie” (nonfiction)
Sheryl Guterl – “Haunted Lake” (poetry)
John Sheirer – “Mid-Summer Saturday” (microfiction)
Caroline Randall – “lightning bugs” (poetry)
Melissa Wold – “Happy 125th Birthday Miss Earhart” (poetry)
Marie Look – “Climbing a Hill in China With My Father” (nonfiction)
Jayne Martin – “Consider the Dawn” (poetry)
Mary Padgen Michna – “Rain Drop” (poetry)
Michele Annable – “Suspension” (fiction)
Ron Theel – “The Holding Tank” (nonfiction)
Hawke Trumbo – “Sunrise Dances” (poetry)
Sharon Whitehill – “Farewell Season” (poetry)
Colleen Wells – “Cut and Carry” (poetry)
Carol Barrett – “Dusk” (poetry)
Natalli Amato – “Feed” (nonfiction)

OCTOBER 2022

Robert McParland – “To Thoreau” (poetry)
Rebecca Ward – “Mysteries” (poetry)
Kate Marshall – “Bridging” (nonfiction)
Carol L. Gloor – “Pain Management” (poetry)
Nick Wynne – “Never Too Late” (nonfiction)
Christine Andersen – “Lines” (poetry)
Andy Oram – “Cradling” (poetry)
Jennifer Campbell – “The Unboxing” (poetry)
Laurel DiGangi – “A Special Place” (fiction)
K.L. Johnston – “Afternoon by the Brick Pond” (poetry)
Katharyn Howd Machan – “Lydia Palmer: Redwing, 1888” (poetry)
Meredith Escudier – “A Painting features Forever” (nonfiction)
Carole Greenfield – “Trace Fossils” (poetry)
Jonah Meyer – “i have flown from my home” (poetry)
Sandra Marilyn – “The Color of Noise” (nonfiction)
Paul Dubitsky – “You Never Know” (fiction)
Steven Deutsch – “What the Old Want” (poetry)
Melissa Donati-Pizirusso – “untitled” (poetry)

SEPTEMBER 2022

Beth Ford – “The Train” (fiction)
Judith Yarrow – “Life at Large” (poetry)
Claire Galford – “A Hawk in the Night” (nonfiction)
Braden Hofeling – “Distance” (poetry)
Kristin Chemis – “Artifacts” (poetry)
Nancy Kay Peterson – “Six Months After Father’s Leave-Taking” (poetry)
Stacie Eirich – “Sunday Afternoon on the Eagle Trail” (nonfiction)
Lucy Fox – “Hiding in Plain Sight” (fiction)
Michael Shepley – “Eagle Fantasy” (poetry)
Pat Hulsebosch – “Just a Glimpse” (nonfiction)
Travis Stephens – “First & Last” (poetry)
Ethan Kahana – “A New Heart from Somewhere” (nonfiction)
David Curry – “Choreography” (poetry)
Sharon Scholl – “Grandpa Taught Me To Garden” (poetry)
Megan E. O’Laughlin – “Voicemail” (nonfiction)
Karen Luke Jackson – “The Heart Unfurled” (poetry)
Alice Lowe – “Jacaranda” (nonfiction)

AUGUST 2022

Alison Arthur – “Field Work” (fiction)
Robin Greene – “A Woman and a Waterfall” (nonfiction)
Sharon Whitehill – “A Victorious Tilting” (poetry)
Fredric Koeppel – “Luck” (poetry)
Clint Martin – “A Transformer Kind of Moment” (nonfiction)
William Falo – “The Heritage Park War” (fiction)
Mark Jackley – “Trucker Coffee” (poetry)
Alexandra McIntosh – “The History of Everything” (nonfiction)
Adnan Onart – “Joy of Chewing Gum” (poetry)
Paul Rousseau – “Widowed Memories” (nonfiction)
Satish Pendharkar – “Flamingos” (poetry)
Emily Rankin – “The Basil” (nonfiction)
Margaret D. Stetz – “Robins” (poetry)
Thomas E. Strunk – “We Were Bugs” (nonfiction)
Maureen Sherbondy – “Mutiny at the Club” (fiction)
Caryn Coyle – “What I Can’t Forget” (nonfiction)
Susan Pope – “The Place Between” (nonfiction)
Kate McNairy – “Autumn” (poetry)

JULY 2022

Iris Melton – “Bees” (fiction)
Cosmo Goldsmith – “Paperboy” (poetry)
C.T. Holte – “Jukebox” (poetry)
Chris A. Smith – “Upwellings” (poetry)
Josephine Greenland – “Sweeter Than Your Name” (fiction)
Valerie Valente – “Someplace Else” (poetry)
Leslie Dianne – “The Greeting” (poetry)
Ken Cathers – “before the sky” (poetry)
Reena Kapoor – “My Grandmother in One Sentence” (nonfiction)
Alexander Etheridge – “Fable of Love on Fire” (poetry)
Lana Hechtman Ayers – “House Hunting” (poetry)
Margaret Kelliher – “King” (fiction)
Pete Zenz – “Elegy to Winter” (poetry)
Samantha Ashe – “Places I Have Unexpectedly Found Tears” (poetry)
David Blumenfeld – “Polio” (nonfiction)
Ale Malick – “Life’s a Mystery” (fiction)
Suzanne Ondrus – “Two Poems from Ouagadougou” (poetry)
Ann Ingalls – “Between My Toes” (poetry)
Lindsay Dudbridge – “Why the Rabbits Run” (nonfiction)

JUNE 2022

Bonnie Demerjian – “The Turning” (poetry)
Joyce Miller – “3 haiku” (poetry)
Brigita Orel – “Posted” (fiction)
Tad Tuleja – “A Full Moon in Winter” (poetry)
Sarah E N Kohrs – “Beyond the Window” (poetry)
Thai Lynne – “A moth and her flame” (poetry)
Gail Purdy – “A Lifeline” (nonfiction)
Hilary Stanton – “Memories of Arenal” (poetry)
Carol Coven Grannick – “Surprise on the Tollway Enroute to New York” (poetry)
James Blears – “The Clock” (poetry)
Rob Lowe – “Pilgrim” (poetry)
Mike Paterson-Jones – “Jeffrey died healthy” (fiction)
Catherine Coundjeris – “Sparrows I Have Known” (poetry)
Barry H. Gordon – “Who Knew” (poetry)
Yuan Changming – “Heartfelt: A Bilinguacultural Poem” (poetry)
Mathieu Cailler – “October Baseball in Mississippi” (fiction)
t.m. thomson – “Crumbs” (poetry)
Carl Hubrick – “The Swinger” (poetry)

MAY 2022

Lisa Spencer Trecost – “The Lost One” (poetry)
Alyssa Harmon – “nephelococcygia” (poetry)
Kenneth M. Kapp – “The Package” (microfiction)
Heather Sager – “We Went Walking” (poetry)
Tanner Rubino – “In a Living Room” (poetry)
Abigail Mathews – “Grandma’s Refrigerator” (nonfiction)
Jessica (Tyner) Mehta – “Familial Territory” (poetry)
David Patten – “Perfect Teeth” (fiction)
Haley Grace – “Fight for Bedtime” (nonfiction)
Hugh Blanton – “Life’s Revenge” (poetry)
Tiel Aisha Ansari – “Reflections of the Rio Grande” (poetry)
D. Dina Friedman – “Because The Wind Is Rising And This Week There Was A Microburst” (poetry)
Bonnie Demerjian – “Three Scenes in Sunlight” (nonfiction)
Gigi Guizado – “Salsa y Reggaeton Went Silent” (poetry)
Nancy Machlis Rechtman – “Don’t Bury Me Alone” (poetry)
Corinna Underwood – “Autumn” (poetry)
Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch – “Call Me Mary” (fiction)
Charles Tarlton – “Seabird” (poetry)
Allison Wehrle – “Grateful Heart” (nonfiction)

APRIL 2022 – National poetry month

Stacie Eirich – “i am learning to be still” (poetry)
Frank William Finney – “Snowscape” (poetry)
Darrell Petska – “To Old Grass and Weeds” (poetry)
Philip Davison – “A Collection of Three” (poetry)
Jennifer Weigel – “Broken Wing” (nonfiction)
J.V. Foerster – “Black Lines” (poetry)
Mieke Leenders – “A mind like a broken arm” (poetry)
Sara Sherr – “Where to Start” (poetry)
Grace Huynh – “Family dinner #3” (poetry)
Nicholas Barnes – “lament” (poetry)
Kersten Christianson – “Guidebook for Heart Protection” (poetry)
Travis Stephens – “Inventory of the Night” (poetry)
Kat Stubing – “Heartworm” (poetry)
Stacie Eirich – “Earth’s Joy” (poetry)
Robert Okaji – “Night’s Turning” (poetry)
Alexis Pearson – “Next Stop” (poetry)
David Goad – “Meeting” (poetry)
Ed Higgins – “Below Beach Sands” (poetry)
Stephanie Buesinger – “7:00 PM, JUNO” (poetry)
Benjamin Leuty – “Two Pages” (poetry)

MARCH 2022

Sarah Henry – “Mardi Gras Season” (poetry)
Steve Gerson – “A wind blew through” (poetry)
Johanna Tollefson – “Benthic: Definition- the flora and fauna found on the bottom, or in the bottom sediments, of a sea, lake, or other body of water.” (poetry)
John Grey – “Shine On” (poetry)
Michele Tjin – “Life and Love as Seen Through My Plum Tree” (nonfiction)
Dianne Thomas – “And It Must Follow” (poetry)
Jeana Mahan – “My Youth” (poetry)
Amelia Díaz Ettinger – “The Single Story of a Latinx Pinocchio” (poetry)
Hope Nisly – “At Dawn Where Two Worlds Meet” (nonfiction)
Nancy Byrne Iannucci – “Primitive Prayer” (poetry)
Gale Acuff – “Some People Die and Go To Hell and Some” (poetry)
Jon Wilder – “Paradise on High” (poetry)
Stephanie Buesinger – “Hashtag Icarus” (fiction)
Uday Khanna – “This should’ve been an Urdu ghazal instead” (poetry)
Jen Prince – “Some Evidence” (poetry)
Erin Lorandos – “summer season” (poetry)
Terri Mullholland – “Sawdust” (fiction)
Rich Boucher – “Astronomers Estimate That There Are at least Seven Letters in the Word ‘Romance’” (poetry)
J.T. Whitehead – “The Lovers: VI” (poetry)
Chris Talbott – “lapis lazuli” (poetry)
James Callan – “Catch and Release” (nonfiction)
Brian Yapko – “Lost on the Mountain” (poetry)
Jeff Burt – “But It Deepens” (fiction)
Walter Weinschenk – “My Eyes are Small” (poetry)
Emily Donaldson – “Mud Season” (poetry)

FEBRUARY 2022

Heather Bartos – “Succulent” (poetry) and “In Praise of Pink” (nonfiction)
DS Maolalai – “The lawsuit” (poetry)
Pamela McCarthy – “Maybe Death Smells Like Onions” (fiction)
Juanita Rey – “In the Department Store” (poetry)
Foster Trecost – “Time-Tested Tenets” (fiction)
Nancy Byrne Iannucci – “Witch” (poetry)
Jon Wilder – “Morning Texts” (poetry)
Marianne Brems – “Not Too Often” (poetry)