Poetry: November 2025

Ruth Bavetta: “My Father’s Shirts”

Jacob Butlett: “Feeding Time at the Zoo”

John Compton: “the musical of the bell jar”

A.M. Hayden: “Ghost Leg”

Joshua Lillie: “What Becomes A Tumbleweed”

Joseph Mills: “Retinue”

J.R. Solonche: “The Ceiling”

Alicia Wright: “She doesn’t wish me dead”

Poetry: October 2025

Sam Culotta: “A Winter Coat”

Paul Ilechko: “Memories of a Memory”

Madison Isbell: “corpus christi, early march”

Lindsay McLeod: “Sleeping Dogs”

Andrew Mulvania: “Self Portrait As The Grasshopper Trapped Inside Van Gogh’s Olive Trees”

Abner Oakes: “Floating Teeth”

Sterling Warner: “Slap Shot”

Poetry: September 2025

Susan Cossette: “Five Things I Will Do in Aegina”

Tony DeGenaro: “Flight Path”

John Grey: “On a Funeral Pyre”

Jeremy Jusek: “Prescriptions Written in Calligraphy”

Cindy Rinne: “Ghost Turkey”

Patricia Russo: “The Dead Time Traveler”

Poetry: August 2025

Sarah Angstadt: “Counterproductive Side Effects”

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal: “Hearing Aid”

Sue Blaustein: “Serving Orders at Brother’s Foods”

John Brantingham: “The Greening of Creatures”

J.D. Isip: “Triceratops”

Paul Jones: “Two Flamingoes at Pea Island Reserve”

Samuel Prestridge: “My Father, Hailing from Ignorant Hill, Texas…”

Diana Rosen: “NEWS ITEM: Westside Pavilion to be UCLA Biomedical Research Center”

Poetry: June 2025

James Benger: “Entrance”

Barbara Daniels: “White Horses”

Cal Freeman: “Always”

Mari Kitina: “Only the Rice Cries”

Michael Lauchlan: “Trout”

Richard Levine: “For Want of Care”

Dudley Stone: “Turbulence”

Meredith Wattle: “Erie Goliath”

Ann Weil: “Living Through”

Poetry: May 2025

Jean Biegun: “On Call”

Karina Castrillo: “I never wanted you to be like us”

John Grey: “Photographs”

Geoffrey Heptonstall: “Floating”

Andrea Horowitz: “Behind Midnight’s Curtain I Recompose Your Birth”

Leonard Kress: “A Night at the Opera”

Laurie Kuntz: “Sooner or Later”

Leigh Parsons: “Still Frozen”

Matthew Pritt: “Joseph F. Seaborn, 1898-1956, Mary B. Seaborn, 1906-“

William Taylor Jr.: “Poem for the New Year”

Poetry: April 2025

Rose Mary Boehm: “Boil them”

Rebecca Clifford: “Climatic Divinations”

Sam Hendrian: “Magazine Ads”

Paul Ilechko: “A Clock Is Ticking”

Tricia Knoll: “Next Time You Interview a Unicorn Prepare Better Questions”

H.K.G. Lowery: “Villa Diodati”

Samuel Prestridge: “Why I’ve Not Cut Down The Yes Ma’am Bush”

Tamarah Rockwood: “Persephone’s first day out”

Jason Ryberg: “No Great Hurry”

Matthew Ussia: “Home Improvement Advice for Anyone Owning a House More Than One Hundred Years Old”

Poetry: March 2025

Sue Blaustein: “A Song for Centipedes”

Felicia Clark: “Chrome Cheers”

john compton: “[we play scrabble—]”

Sam Culotta: “Voices in the Other Room”

Jenna K Funkhouser: “The House at the End of the Road”

Ken Gierke: “After the Rain”

Julia Hatch: “A Thoughtless Moment of Zen”

James Croal Jackson: “Drymouth”

Daniel Edward Moore: “From the Castle of Resentment”

Jimmy Pappas: “The Ineffable”

Poetry: February 2025

Jason Baldinger: “a time capsule of dust”

Stephen Barile: “Cedar Crest Cove”

Jane-Rebecca Cannarella: “Quilted Rainbows”

Lorraine Caputo: “And That Wind Twirls”

Rick Christiansen: “Borrowed Blood”

John Dorsey: “Jerry Garcia & German Root Beer”

Howie Good: “Uketopia”

John Grey: “Flower People”

Judy Lorenzen: “Anyway”

Tim Peeler: “Untitled”

LB Sedlacek: “Art vs Life (Dream 09/19/15)”

Poetry: January 2025

Nadia Arioli: “Sam Insists Only Oak”

Jon Bennet: “Petty Dreams”

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozábal: “Thoughts”

Sarah Carleton: “No, I would not like to ride”

Bart Edelman: “What Happens Here”

Marc Janssen: “Dog Days”

Linda Lerner: “Twenty-Four Hour Non-Stop News”

Anita Lerek: “Song for Blood Vibrato”

Jim Murdoch: “The Great Ledger in the Sky”

Timothy Tarkelly: “Long Night”

Robin Wright: “Nesting”