Special FeaturerbdKate Hanson Foster, special feature, poetry

Kate Hanson Foster: Never To Be Told

Special FeaturerbdKate Hanson Foster, special feature, poetry
Kate Hanson Foster: Never To Be Told
Craig Whitehead

Craig Whitehead

Never To Be Told

 

I check all the right boxes

on the questionnaire—       

I do not want to hurt

myself or others. I am not

scared. I do not cry

all the time—panic for no good

reason. I am sleeping.

I look forward to the enjoyment

of things. I hand the clipboard

through the glass window

and smile, and a reflection

slides back, faintly female,  

rat hair rising with the upwind.

I would never blame myself.          

Kate Hanson Foster's first book of poems, Mid Drift, was published by Loom Press and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Center for the Book Award in 2011. Her poetry has appeared in Comstock Review, Harpur Palate, Poet Lore, Tupelo Quarterly and elsewhere. 

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 FeaturerbdSammie Downing, special feature, poetry

Sammie Downing: Am I a River Or a Woman

The poet Ed Roberson told Sammie Downing, “You only have one life and you only have one work.” Advice she's taken to heart–she's filed taxes in 7 U.S. States and now finds herself working on a cattle and deer station in the depths of New Zealand. Find her fiction at Entropy Mag, my poetry at 3am Magazine and my blog at: www.herearelions.org. 

Special FeaturerbdSammie Downing, special feature, poetry
Sammie Downing: Am I a River Or a Woman
Special FeaturerbdDavid Boeving, special feature, poetry

David Boeving: A Crucifix Machine

David Boeving teaches rhetoric and writing at Eastern Michigan University and poetry and fiction at the Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility. David has published poems in Body Electric (Ann Arbor) and “‘News’ ‘Conference’ or Play Your T. Card” through Frog Island Press, and poems and photographs in NEAT, and Tongue Mag. He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan with his loving partner and their two cats.

Special FeaturerbdDavid Boeving, special feature, poetry
David Boeving: A Crucifix Machine
Special FeaturerbdAshley 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 FeaturerbdAshley Mares, special feature, poetry
Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands