That First Rain Fervently trying to return to the start of rainy season, when gestures rotted in the air, when words acquired the cruelty...

Kathy Mak is an emerging writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has completed an online creative writing course called Lit Mag...

entrapment spell Where lies love/ Dove sta amore / Here lies — “28” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Some feeling of...

getting ready i undulate like butterfly roach. i find the cornered belt-loop. i dress in overgrown plaid by soft lampshade. there’s...

In Al Russell’s debut poetry collection, Children of the Anxious City, the gods are less glamorous, the figures of myth less remote, and...

Lannie Stabile, a Detroiter, often says while some write like a turtleneck sweater, she writes like a Hawaiian shirt. A finalist for the...

I believe I say it as an affirmation, stepping from the train tracks to take in a new city, Christmas just a far-off spot on the horizon....

Juliette Sebock is the author of Mistakes Were Made and has work forthcoming or appearing in a wide variety of publications.  She is the...

Washing Up Table-seated, I watch my mother Slosh suds in the sink, commanding water To weigh down sodden cloth, scrubbing. Her hands make...

graveyard love a vast hill to climb, you lead me through the heather where the air is filled with hay fever scents through smatterings of...

Here, Now I See Break all the broken pieces into intangible matter Drown all the stream-less rivers into the oceans Catch all the winds...

you’re pouring too much sugar in your tea, much like i used to and when i leave you'll wonder why you saw me drinking coffee. you'll...

Elizabeth York Dickinson received her MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry and photography have appeared in Gravel,...

How to Drink Whisky He shows me how to drink whisky and I re-gift what there is of this place to him, what’s novel, what may retain some...

shallows Atlas, falling blazing ice hurtling last voices of long dead stars pierce loamy riverbanks  earth crumbling in the wake of...

Juliette Sebock is the author of Mistakes Were Made and has work in publications including Royal Rose Mag and Cauldron Anthology. She is...

Nashira is an Afro-Pinay/Polynesian artist & activist from Cebu. She uses art as a weapon to champion for the rise & recognition of women...

I'm Not Ready Yet Do you remember it? so the hell begins all over again she brings up a past I do not wish to speak of in hopes that my...

Divine Intervention this is what she has been waiting for, an answer, finally delivered, splitting her body as she rips herself open ...

Iron Girl She stole more from him than he from her. It was how Olympian marriages worked since Zeus tricked Hera into opening her golden...