Special FeaturerbdApril 03, 2018Jeanette Quick, poetry, special feature

Jeanette Quick: Thunder Will Break the Earth Apart

Special FeaturerbdApril 03, 2018Jeanette Quick, poetry, special feature

Holler Back

dogs protect yards of forgotten-dream debris, projects

faded in sunlight, rusted metal scraps that one day

will come in handy. a child’s overturned plastic dump

truck intertwined bent wire of what was once a house

for chickens. the sound of the holler, bloated buzzing

of bugs, shrieking of mating frogs in murky bog water,

little red birds speaking to each other in urgent tones.

deep gusts sweep the skins of the tall thin trees that

stand like soldiers to the sky, wind electrifying the air

as if, any moment, thunder will break the earth apart.

Jeanette Quick lives in San Francisco. Her work has been published in Ghost City Review, Rat's Ass Review, The Curious Element, The Bright Line, Penumbra, The Tax Lawyer, District Lines, and the American Banker. She has earned residencies from OBRAS Portugal, Elsewhere Studios, Art Farm, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She holds a Jurisdoctorate from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Berkeley. She regularly contributes theater reviews to DC Metro Theater Arts.

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Special FeaturerbdApril 05, 2018Brynn Martin, special feature, poetry

Brynn Martin: This Is Not a Tragedy

Brynn Martin is a Kansas native living in Knoxville while she pursues her MFA in poetry from the University of Tennessee. Her poetry has appeared in Public Pool and Contrary Magazine. She loves ee cummings and cats almost equally.

Special FeaturerbdApril 05, 2018Brynn Martin, 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 FeaturerbdOctober 08, 2018Kristen Bulger, poetry, special feature

Kristen Bulger: Triptych of the Body

Kristen Bulger is a poet from New Hampshire and currently lives in Boston, MA. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in Salamander, Superstition Review, Houseguest, and elsewhere.

Special FeaturerbdOctober 08, 2018Kristen Bulger, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdOctober 09, 2018Jonathan Andrew Perez, poetry, special feature

Jonathan Andrew Perez: The Lake

Jonathan Andrew Perez has previously been published in Prelude, Junto Magazine, The Write Launch and Silver Needle Press. Most recently, he was invited and attended The Virginia Quarterly Review 2018 poetry workshop with Jericho Brown.

He has a Master’s in English Literature and African American Cultural Studies from the University of Virginia, and works an Assistant District Attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office as a prosecutor.

Special FeaturerbdOctober 09, 2018Jonathan Andrew Perez, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdOctober 15, 2018special feature, poetry, marilee goad

Marilee Goad: Beg for Attention

Marilee Goad attended the University of Chicago and has work published or forthcoming in Ghost City Review, OUT/CAST, and Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Scope arts magazine for medical students.

Special FeaturerbdOctober 15, 2018special feature, poetry, marilee goad