May 2021
About This Issue
Poetry is about the unspoken, the memories that hold us together, and the images that make those moments even more powerful. This is what you can expect from our poets in this issue––pure power and freedom.
MASTHEAD
Thomas Kneeland, Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Martina McGowan, Poetry Editor
Contributors
Natalli Amato
“Memory”
Carol Casey
“Remembering”
Charlotte Derrick
“Mother Crab”
Kaylee Hamilton
“Reminisce”
Stanley Lim
“Summer Hours”
Takwa Sharif
“My Body,” “Low Vibrations”
Laine Betanzos
“Liminal Clarity”
Kay L. Cook
“Held Back to Repeat”
Jade Driscoll
“Monday Afternoons,” “Notes for Playing the Role of Formerly-Suicidal”
Peggy Hammond
“Vietnam Memorial Wall, 1990”
Judith Mikesch-McKenzie
“At the Goodwill, At Umpqua”
Shelby Tisdale
“Exodus”
Phoebe Blake
“e. pluribus”
Holly Day
“The Accident”
Mohamed Faisal
“Mother waits for son”
Rachel Hinch
“Dependency,” “Redemption,” “Letting Go,” “Hope,” “Affliction”
Matthew Miller
"Sitting pants down on the toilet, holding the autoinjector to my thigh, I hesitate"
Ellen June Wright
“Today is Not the Day for Poem Making,” “8:46 and Martyrdom”
T.L. Browning
“New Year’s Eve 1991”
Destiny DeCosta Torres
“My Identity”
Karen Gibbons
“Suddenly It Falls Away”
Kylie Johnson
“Truly A Romantic”
Tom Montag
"After Some Lines From Ouyan Xiu’s ‘Parting Grief’”
Brian Yapko
“Continuum”
