Special FeaturerbdMarch 04, 2019Corie Rosen, poetry, special feature

Corie Rosen: False Memory

Special FeaturerbdMarch 04, 2019Corie Rosen, poetry, special feature

The Red Door

The first time I saw you again, we’d sat,

spoken as if it were days, not years, gone.

The white cloth at the table’s edge laid flat

a field of our former love forgotten.

It was easy to imagine it then,

building our house (children, more and more and—

magic that might have been!)

Red, I’d thought, the only color for our door.

A red-doored house, filled up with our love’s hours.

Now, in my stilled home, no child of mine smiles,

and I wonder what might have been (ours, yours).

Only, of course, there is no house, no door.

What do you put in a place hope’s abandoned?

False memory of a red door, and nothing.

Corie Rosen's work has appeared in Arts & Letters, Crab Creek Review, and Juked, among many other places, and has also been anthologized, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and featured on NPR. Her first book of poems, Words for Things Unsaid, is forthcoming from Aldrich Press in 2020.

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Special FeaturerbdNovember 09, 2016lana bella, special feature, poetry

Lana Bella: Dear Suki

A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), has had poetry and fiction featured with over 250 journals, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, Plainsongs, San Pedro River Review, The Writing Disorder, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere, among others.

Lana divides her time between the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever frolicsome imps.

Special FeaturerbdNovember 09, 2016lana bella, special feature, poetry

Special FeaturerbdAugust 15, 2017Kailey 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 FeaturerbdAugust 15, 2017Kailey Tedesco, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdAugust 21, 2017Ashley Mares, special feature, poetry

Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands

Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press) A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press), and Killer (Ghost City Press, forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, Prelude, PANK, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com and follow her @ash_mares2.

Special FeaturerbdAugust 21, 2017Ashley Mares, special feature, poetry

Special FeaturerbdMay 21, 2018Gary Charles Wilkens, special feature, poetry

Gary Charles Wilkens: Edit the Sad Parts

Gary Charles Wilkens’ first book, The Red Light Was My Mind, won the 2006 Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize. His manuscript Fayetteville was a Finalist in the 2014 Moon City Review Poetry Contest. His poems have appeared more than 70 journals and anthologies, including The Texas Review, Moon City Review, Passages North, the Adirondack Review, James Dickey Review, Melancholy Hyperbole, and Midwest Quarterly. His fiction has appeared in Drunk Monkeys, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and Pale Ghosts Magazine. His day job is Associate Professor of English at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Special FeaturerbdMay 21, 2018Gary Charles Wilkens, special feature, poetry

Gary Charles Wilkens: Edit the Sad Parts

Special FeaturerbdAugust 30, 2018Brian Alan Ellis, poetry, special feature

Brian Alan Ellis: Endorse Me on LinkedIn as a Domino’s Pizza Quality Tester

BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Productions, and is the author of three novellas, three short-story collections, two books of humorous non-fiction (Sad Laughter is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms Press), and Something to Do with Self-Hate, a novel. His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Funhouse, Heavy Feather Review, Talking Book, and Queen Mob’s Tea House, among other places. He lives in Florida, and tweets sad and clever things at both @brianalanellis and @HouseofVlad.

Special FeaturerbdAugust 30, 2018Brian Alan Ellis, poetry, special feature