Special FeaturerbdJames Ardis, poetry, special feature

James Ardis: He Just Didn’t Breathe

Special FeaturerbdJames Ardis, poetry, special feature
James Ardis: He Just Didn’t Breathe
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SCOUTING REPORT: Hank’s a college pitcher who has man-strength on the mound but he lands on his extended foot too far right he leaks open and loses his own body
 

SCOUTING REPORT: Hank’s a college pitcher with a kid brother, a leaking body, pet spiders he catches in the backyard and man strength on the mound
 

SCOUTING REPORT: Hank’s kid brother put half a peanut in his nose that was so big it didn’t come out for three days
 

SCOUTING REPORT: The kid didn’t even tell anyone he just didn’t breathe out that nostril for three days
 

SCOUTING REPORT: But once that half a peanut was out he realized everything is perfect life is perfect

James Ardis published the chapbook "Your Arkansas: A Strategy Guide" (Gauss PDF) in 2016, a project that combines psychosis and video game strategy guides. His writing appears in Leveler, The Rumpus, and Small Portions, among others. He writes semi-frequently for Heavy Feather Review, Bullshitist, and Crossing Genres.

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 FeaturerbdJames Croal Jackson, special feature, poetry

James Croal Jackson: Meanwhile, in Real Life

James Croal Jackson is the author of The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FLAPPERHOUSE, Rust + Moth, The Bitter Oleander, and elsewhere. He edits The Mantle and is a former winner of the William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest. Find him in Columbus, Ohio or at jimjakk.com.
 

Special FeaturerbdJames Croal Jackson, special feature, poetry
James Croal Jackson: Meanwhile, in Real Life
Special FeaturerbdDimitri Reyes, poetry, special feature

Dimitri Reyes: I Told the Brother Gracias

Dimitri Reyes is a SortaRican PuertoVegan poet born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Through experience, his poetry becomes a meditation on veganism, well-being, Latinx culture, and growing up in the inner city. Dimitri is currently  a candidate in the Rutgers- Newark MFA program and his poetry is published or forthcoming in Acentos Review, Naugatuck River Review, Radius, DrylandLit, and others.

Special FeaturerbdDimitri Reyes, poetry, special feature
Dimitri Reyes: I Told the Brother Gracias