To My Twenty-Six-Year-Old Daughter by Connie Post You are sitting in front of me two days before my hysterectomy…
Browsing: poetry
Beta splendens (Siamese Fighting Fish) by Paulette A. Pashibin Beautiful carnivores: curious, watchful, with strange appetites. Females eat their…
dark angel (from calvary) by eve packer all you’ll ever be is a one-nite stand says my mother, at…
Gifts by Patrice Boyer Claeys From Mother: a crystal bowl—sleek sides tapering to weighted base lead-heavy, incised, its clean…
Silver Linings An MER VOX Folio Curated by Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach Since the 2016 election, the news…
Christina Springer
Keisha Molby-Baez Seeds Planted My birth name Keisha My heavenly name Child of God My family names daughter, sister,…
Julia Lisella Charlotte’s Zinnias Each pop of brazen orange or hot pink quivers as Charlotte’s legs cross over…
Catherine Esposito Prescott Palm Blossoms From down the block they look like a layer of snow. Hundreds have…
Allia Abdullah-Matta Allia Abdullah-Matta is a poet and teacher-scholar who uses creativity and artistic expression as instruments of…