Johnny Willems (he/him) is an eighteen year old collage and zine maker from Northwest Indiana. He is a resident writer for The Star...

Priya Verma is from India, currently pursuing her bachelor degree in literature.

Born in Ankara, Turkey, Nazli Yildirim is published by various magazines in Turkey. Besides poetry, she is a photographer and she likes...

Born in Ankara, Turkey, Nazli Yildirim is published by various magazines in Turkey.

maybe this time you hear the echoes of questions people have asked before with the hard answers already spilled on the ground

Lifelight She is scented with petals of roses, white and pink, with vanilla sugar, passion fruit and grains of rice

Trick of the Light When I was 17 I leaned my forehead against the dirty window of a bus and made a promise to the going-to-bed-now sun

In Our Hands Because storms shook our rafters broke our floodgates carried parts of us into the wind

Grandfather Some nights I dream of nothing at all

Embroidery you have seen too few sunrises to have already unlearned innate skills of life — too young to step

I'm transported 60 years in the length of a heartbeat with the opening chords & I remember us, coupled at Empire State in the good old days

My Heart is Not a Toy Last winter, you eased and mended my trepidation, broken heart, like a broken toy secluded

Nicotine Kiss Grey lips and rosy lips sailing alongside as ships against the tempestuous waves of the ocean.

Interface The layman wakes up in the morning and doesn’t worry about striving for anything but a coffee.

Canopy Album And for all of us there are trees.

Interview with J. Edward Kruft

Moonbeams illuminate the cedar wood floors of the tiny antique shop, The only source of light in the darkest hour of the night

BELOVED My beloved eyes glare as the morning sun; Her eyes infused with shrewd thoughts; They haunt, I should strenuously run

Elveden lightdrops:

Sparrow Passer domesticus tricolored trilling Lake Erie's eastern shore