Category Archives: Poetry

Kelsey Dean   The Kumiho Cooks Pajeon   He expects me to know how to fold plump stalks of green onion into batter and light the fire, to cut those milky-white cloves that sting my nose, make me yelp, bare … Continue reading →

  Thomas Locicero   The Child, or the Tiger?   It was the silence that made the strange fog More menacing, and then it was broken. A distant, then a not-so-distant, dog, Then the first words—curse words—I heard spoken. Collar … Continue reading →

  Alison Mcbain   Thumbs   sitting in the window, she watches sun storms— bluebottles suiciding valiantly against their reflections   that night, she sups from acorn caps holds a grain of corn in two hands gets drunk from a … Continue reading →

Jane Yolen Circling the Moon             while sea gulls circle the moon —Wendy Howe     Gulls circling the moon, pull tides around their wings, warm themselves in these colder times.   They will not drown in that Mare, … Continue reading →

  Josh Pearce On the Express   There you go flying down a one-way track in an iron corset all done up in the back with steel-rail stitching that pinches you into an arrow dynamic figurehead.   Coal sparks in … Continue reading →

                                      _______________ Vince Gotera is Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. Former Editor, North American Review. New Editor, Star*Line (Science Fiction and … Continue reading →

            Ken Poyner   First Landing   We were prepared to take them To our leader. All manner of lights And sound devices were arrayed To allow us to demonstrate a mathematics We hoped we … Continue reading →

                                    _______________ Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Reno, Nevada, but she received her MA in English from Penn State. She currently lives … Continue reading →