Special FeaturerbdJanuary 17, 2017Noah Burton, special feature, poetry

Noah Burton: Turning Trees into Guns Is Easy

Special FeaturerbdJanuary 17, 2017Noah Burton, special feature, poetry

The Hive

Turning trees into guns is easy;

mouths into walls or heads into pollen,

not so in this morning rain.

Given a bouquet, the tree blushes;

patched bicycles fall over in rust

on the dirt roads. How convenient

the alley, thinking, sprouts a hydrangea

like a dream in a brain, simple.

Noah Burton's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Paperbag, The Puritan, Outlook Springs, Cruel Garters, among others. He is a recipient of the 2015 Dick Shea Memorial Prize in Poetry judged by Tanya Larkin. Noah lives in New Hampshire where he works at a burrito shop, adjuncts at local colleges, and plays in the occasional band/perpetual solo project, House of 1000 Sports Cars. www.noahburton.com

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Special FeaturerbdFebruary 17, 2017Devon 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 FeaturerbdFebruary 17, 2017Devon Wootten, special feature, poetry

Special FeaturerbdAugust 04, 2017Stacey Gruver, special feature, poetry

Stacey Gruver: Erosion is Self Care

Stacey Gruver is a poet and artist who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Maryland Individual Artists Award. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Eye to the Telescope, and The Puritan.

Special FeaturerbdAugust 04, 2017Stacey Gruver, special feature, poetry

Special FeaturerbdSeptember 18, 2017James 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 FeaturerbdSeptember 18, 2017James Croal Jackson, special feature, poetry

James Croal Jackson: Meanwhile, in Real Life

Special FeaturerbdApril 23, 2018Milo Gallagher, poetry, special feature

Milo Gallagher: A Centaur Dreams

Milo Gallagher's poems have appeared or will soon appear in The Kenyon Review, The Grief Diaries, Crab Fat Magazine, Potluck Magazine, Anomaly, and elsewhere. He is an MFA candidate at Mills College. You can follow him on twitter @miloemilyg.

Special FeaturerbdApril 23, 2018Milo Gallagher, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdAugust 13, 2018David Hanlon, poetry, special feature

David Hanlon: As Fickle as an Orange Is Orange

David Hanlon is from Cardiff, Wales, and currently living in Bristol, England. He has a BA in Film Studies & is training part-time as a counsellor/therapist. You can find his work online in or forthcoming with Calamus Journal, Occulum, Riggwelter Press, Dirty Paws Poetry Review, Into The Void, Impossible Archetype & The Rising Phoenix Review, among others.

Special FeaturerbdAugust 13, 2018David Hanlon, poetry, special feature