Mothers Respond – A folio edited by Cindy Veach and Jennifer Martelli The poems in this folio explore how we,…
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Icarus Takes a Window Seat Your voice on the phone carries a rattle of beverage carts, seatbelts snapping, and the…
HOW TO SURVIVE A DICTATOR → Call your mother-in-law who lived through the Third Reich. She may tell you…
Poem for the New Year My daughter said she would go outside her comfort zone, would pull the string on…
Instructions for Motherhood Gut the herring. Cover your body in ash. Thorn with the blood that grows from the roses.…
Winter Baby Tell me the truth, I said to my friend, who had just given birth. How bad is it?…
Sunflowers Just inside the gate, the rise and fall of dying sunflowers: disheveled petals and downcast eyes. Then a flick…
Review by Anne Britting Oleson “For in that sleep…what dreams may come,” said Hamlet. He was speaking of death,…
Review by Margaret Rozga Award-winning poet Jane Satterfield’s fourth collection Apocalypse Mix differs in range, tone, and form from the…
Aleppo in the Heart of the Living Room Every soul needs a proper chaperone to say nothing of a champion.…