Special FeaturerbdTierra Ouellette, special feature, poetry

Tierra Ouellette: Your Face After You Came

Special FeaturerbdTierra Ouellette, special feature, poetry
Tierra Ouellette: Your Face After You Came
Jake Hills

Jake Hills

Re: Your Face After You Came

 

Two blood moons blotchy

and hung on either side of your face:

A pale daybreak.

 

The left moon filters and refracts,

beginning its retrograde.

The copper body sinks into the pillow.

 

Spectral and absolute.

Turned away from me is how I prophesied you.

Tierra Ouellette is a recent graduate of Tufts University and now lives in NYC. Tierra works as the co-editor-in-chief of Softies: a publication dedicated to serving as a platform for women, trans and genderqueer people to expressive themselves creatively and actualize vulnerability as radical and powerful. Tierra is also a model signed with ANTI Agency, likes long walks and bubble baths.

Special Featurerbdgillian parrish, special feature, poetry

Gillian Parrish: Just When We Thought We Could Turn

Gillian Parrish is a teaching-geek who currently divides her not-enough-time between stacks of papers on brain-gut neuroscience in the classroom, persona poetics, community policing, and a mermaid tale for her sweet little niece. Her poems have appeared in various journals such as Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Literary Review, and forthcoming in Volt. She's the mothership behind spacecraftproject, an arts and poetry journal with an ethos best summed up in the words of said 4-year-old niece (hope for the planet), who, at Christmas dinner, solemnly remarked that "We are all connected. In a web. Like The Force."

Special Featurerbdgillian parrish, special feature, poetry
Gillian Parrish: Just When We Thought We Could Turn
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 FeaturerbdNatalie Solmer, poetry, art, special feature

Visual Poetry by Natalie Solmer

Natalie Solmer grew up in South Bend, Indiana. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Indianapolis Review. After 13 years of working as a grocery store florist, she now teaches composition and writing in various institutions all over Indianapolis. Her work has been published in journals such as Willow Springs, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Cimarron Review, MidWest Review and forthcoming from North American Review. More of her work can be found at www.nataliesolmer.com.


Special FeaturerbdNatalie Solmer, poetry, art, special feature
Visual Poetry by Natalie Solmer