Special Featurerbdar martin, special feature, poetry

A.R. Martin: I Bled on Your Bed Again

Special Featurerbdar martin, special feature, poetry
A.R. Martin: I Bled on Your Bed Again
Roman Averin

Roman Averin

for you

I bled on your bed again, 
Like a tree that drops sap onto
The face of a child that needs
Nourishment. 

I have nourished you
Plenty of times
But you continue to scrub your
Sheets like I left a giant
Shit on your plates for dinner.

A.R. Martin navigates aimlessly through the Las Vegas desert with her two cats. Her work has appeared in Hothouse Literary Journal and Echo Literary Magazine, both publications at her alma mater the University of Texas at Austin.

Special Featurerbdgillian parrish, special feature, poetry

Gillian Parrish: Just When We Thought We Could Turn

Gillian Parrish is a teaching-geek who currently divides her not-enough-time between stacks of papers on brain-gut neuroscience in the classroom, persona poetics, community policing, and a mermaid tale for her sweet little niece. Her poems have appeared in various journals such as Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Literary Review, and forthcoming in Volt. She's the mothership behind spacecraftproject, an arts and poetry journal with an ethos best summed up in the words of said 4-year-old niece (hope for the planet), who, at Christmas dinner, solemnly remarked that "We are all connected. In a web. Like The Force."

Special Featurerbdgillian parrish, special feature, poetry
Gillian Parrish: Just When We Thought We Could Turn
Special FeaturerbdKailey Tedesco, poetry, special feature

Kailey Tedesco: To Suck Dry

Kailey Tedesco's books She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publications) and These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press) are both forthcoming. She is the editor-in-chief of a Rag Queen Periodical and a performing member of the NYC Poetry Brothel. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. You can find her poetry featured or forthcoming in Prelude, Prick of the Spindle, Bellevue Literary Review, Vanilla Sex Magazine, and more. For more information, please visit kaileytedesco.com. 

Special FeaturerbdKailey Tedesco, poetry, special feature
Kailey Tedesco: To Suck Dry
Special FeaturerbdJuliet Cook, special feature, poetry

Juliet Cook: Rebirth the Parts I Hated

Juliet Cook is a grotesque glitter witch medusa hybrid brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. She is drawn to poetry, abstract visual art, and other forms of expression. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.

Special FeaturerbdJuliet Cook, special feature, poetry
Juliet Cook: Rebirth the Parts I Hated