Special FeaturerbdJoan McNerney, poetry, special feature

Joan McNerney: Beware

Special FeaturerbdJoan McNerney, poetry, special feature
Joan McNerney: Beware

Beware

 

If you touch Medusa

her serpents will wrap

themselves around you.

She soars through water

with giant wings gold fins.

Hundreds of snakes

crawling from her head.

 

Some long to be near

Medusa to hear her hissing

lisping songs forgetful.

She can suck blood from

throats coiling minds

past infinity before

they breathe again.

Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Warriors with Wings, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.  Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work.  Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky and she has four Best of the Net nominations. 



Special FeaturerbdSage Curtis, special feature, poetry

Sage Curtis: Drowning Daddy Issues

Sage Curtis is a Bay Area poet and MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and she performs it whenever possible. Recently, she's been interested in the glamour and grit of addiction, and places we find it unexpectedly. You can find more of her work at sagedaniellecurtis.wordpress.com

Special FeaturerbdSage Curtis, special feature, poetry
Sage Curtis: Drowning Daddy Issues
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 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
Special FeaturerbdGary 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 FeaturerbdGary Charles Wilkens, special feature, poetry
Gary Charles Wilkens: Edit the Sad Parts