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...
Poems by Suphil Lee Park

Poems by Suphil Lee Park

Art: from Excavations series by Detlef Gotzens   Change of Heart    It’d make no differenceif you did or didn’t.           I’m addressing a fly           for the world’s been reduced           to that–a self           interest I cannot fault.But if you found...
Poems by Louis Gallo

Poems by Louis Gallo

Art: Contemplation by Alexey Adonin THE PIANO   All the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles all the old thinking.Robert Hass, “Meditation at Lagunitas”   I.I’m in a dwelling that does not existalthough here I am now in the dream—maybe an amalgam...
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...
Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found by Warren Wright

Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found by Warren Wright

Art: Cotter Bridge, courtesy of Thurman J. Williams of Cotter, Arkansas   Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found   I was born March 21st, 1942, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, the first child of Ernie Edward Wright and Alice Erlene Collins, who was always called Aline...