Poems by Michael Chang

Poems by Michael Chang

Art: Blueberries by Clarke Condé dispatches from supper club   “The edge of a lie I offered you / the smell of your body behind a flannel shirt”—Douglas Crase, Toronto Means the Meeting Place “The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it...
Do-It-Yourself by Jonathan Odell

Do-It-Yourself by Jonathan Odell

Art: Ghost Rain by Briarwood Bohemian   Do-It-Yourself   Death came for my mother three times, and twice she refused to go. It was dangerous to underestimate how fierce she could be. Lying just below that sweet powdered veneer was a wounded animal ready to...
Poems by Kathleen Hellen

Poems by Kathleen Hellen

Art: Ocean Therapy by Christy Mandeville   no small affair that wrings with injured hands to mere the accusations after ee cummings   I wrecked the rain that wrecks intent, slipping out from under somewhere terribly deficient, I wept and wept beyond that...
descent by John Sweet

descent by John Sweet

Art: Bare Trees by William Zuback     descent   fear of frozen sunlit afternoons and                                         broken glass,                                           of the truth,                  of dying too young and of    living past the...