Special FeaturerbdJade Riordan, poetry, special feature

Jade Riordan: I Am the Magician

Special FeaturerbdJade Riordan, poetry, special feature
Jade Riordan: I Am the Magician

Rabbit Pelt Dream

 

Even the city

has abandoned itself for

an easier life.

 

In theory, I weigh

as much as a rabbit; I

sleep soft pelted and

 

fox-less. In theory,

I fall prey to the garden’s

old hunger; I look

 

on through the long night

at my soil and warmth self as

I decompose. In

 

theory, I remain

as a memory running

between cities, but

 

never entering.

In theory, I was just an

abracadabra.

 

In reality,

I am the magician, the

last dream before sleep.

 

Jade Riordan lives in northern Canada; she’s probably cold right now. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, Outrageous Fortune, Room, 3Elements Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is a member of Bywords' selection committee.



Special FeaturerbdDevon Wootten, special feature, poetry

Devon Wootten: Worst. Threesome. Ever.

Devon Wootten is a faculty member at Whitman College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, LIT, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Octopus, the tiny, Backward City Review, 26 – A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and The California Journal of Poetics. A former resident of Yaddo and Anderson ranch, he is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Montana and ABD in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Iowa. He lives with his wife among the wheat fields of southeast Washington. He curates wikipoesis.com. He's at devonwootten.com.

Special FeaturerbdDevon Wootten, special feature, poetry
Devon Wootten: Worst. Threesome. Ever.
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 FeaturerbdCatherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry

Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything

Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of the chapbooks Maria Sings (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press).  Recent poems have appeared in Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, MiPOesias, and elsewhere.  A graduate of NYU’s MFA program in Creative Writing-Poetry, Catherine is cofounder and curator of the SWWIM reading series.  She lives in Miami Beach with her husband, two sons, and daughter.

Special FeaturerbdCatherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry
Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything
Special FeaturerbdJoshua Lindenbaum, poetry, special feature

Joshua Lindenbaum: Google Search

Joshua Lindenbaum’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in HEArt Online, Breadcrumbs, West Texas Literary Review, Typishly, Five2One Magazine, Silhouette Press, Mistake House, The Bangalore Review, 3Elements Review, and several other publications. He’s currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at Binghamton University and will become a full-time professor despite a dismal job market. The pen has been his companion for quite some time, but it’s still waiting for him “to put a ring on it.” 

Special FeaturerbdJoshua Lindenbaum, poetry, special feature
Joshua Lindenbaum: Google Search