Special FeaturerbdSeptember 27, 2017Terrance Wedin, special feature, poetry

Terrance Wedin: Endless Bodies

Special FeaturerbdSeptember 27, 2017Terrance Wedin, special feature, poetry

Bigger Splash

stripped the pool of summer days

learning to swim, sink, lounge

search tan legs down a chaise

build a diving board surrounded

by shrubs: this is where I found

endless bodies, warm

divorced of fantasy from breathing

chlorine and watching thunder hours

at the bottom, waiting for lungs

to adjust to the particulars

of treading in love young,

escape found later evenings

in empty apartments television

loud so our mistakes seemed quiet

disasters like lost bikini tops

and bottoms pale/burnt

promises left me wishing

for lightning to close me open

Terrance Wedin is a professional bartender and an adjunct instructor at Columbus College of Art and Design. His work has appeared in Esquire, Ninth Letter, Hobart, New World Writing, Smartish Pace, and other publications.

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Special FeaturerbdMay 03, 2017Kristen Brida, special feature, poetry

Kristen Brida: Tinder Bio Sonnet

Kristen Brida's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, New Delta Review, Hobart, Whiskey Island, DUM DUM Zine, and elsewhere.

Special FeaturerbdMay 03, 2017Kristen Brida, 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 FeaturerbdFebruary 21, 2018Christine Scanlon, poetry, special feature

Christine Scanlon: He Was Older

Christine Scanlon is a graduate of The New School MFA program and currently teaches writing composition at The City College of New York. She has work previously published in White Stag, Indicia, and The Fem among other publications.

Special FeaturerbdFebruary 21, 2018Christine Scanlon, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdJuly 23, 2018Dominik Parisien, poetry, special feature

Dominik Parisien: Survival Is Sinking

Dominik Parisien's work can be found in places such as The Fiddlehead, Uncanny Magazine, Plenitude, Strange Horizons, as well as other magazines and anthologies. He is the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, which won the Shirley Jackson Award, as well as other anthologies. His latest project is Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry.

Special FeaturerbdJuly 23, 2018Dominik Parisien, poetry, special feature

Special FeaturerbdAugust 30, 2018Brian Alan Ellis, poetry, special feature

Brian Alan Ellis: Endorse Me on LinkedIn as a Domino’s Pizza Quality Tester

BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Productions, and is the author of three novellas, three short-story collections, two books of humorous non-fiction (Sad Laughter is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms Press), and Something to Do with Self-Hate, a novel. His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Funhouse, Heavy Feather Review, Talking Book, and Queen Mob’s Tea House, among other places. He lives in Florida, and tweets sad and clever things at both @brianalanellis and @HouseofVlad.

Special FeaturerbdAugust 30, 2018Brian Alan Ellis, poetry, special feature