Special FeaturerbdWheeler Light, special feature, poetry

Wheeler Light: Here is How to Love

Special FeaturerbdWheeler Light, special feature, poetry
Wheeler Light: Here is How to Love
Jakob Owens

Jakob Owens

Here is How to Love

By reading a mirror into a mirror.
A poem into your stomach silent
as December. Only the air vent
can listen to the soft exhale
of your everything. The air vent
which is trustworthy by merit
of it also exhausting.
At that moment the bathroom
filling with hot air. The window
with your silhouette. You can look
in a window and see a mirror.
You can look in a window and see
outside yourself. Where you also are. 

Wheeler Light currently lives in Boulder, CO His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart Pulp, The Meadow, POSTblank, and Bottlecap Press, among others. 

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
Special FeaturerbdPhilip Schaefer, special feature, poetry

Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness

Philip Schaefer’s first collection of poems Bad Summon won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press and will be released Summer 2017. He is the author of three chapbooks, two of which were co-written with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry and has work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Thrush Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Bat City Review, The Adroit Journal, Baltimore Review, and Passages North among others. He tends bar in Missoula, MT.

Special FeaturerbdPhilip Schaefer, special feature, poetry
Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness
Special FeaturerbdDavid 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 FeaturerbdDavid Hanlon, poetry, special feature
David Hanlon: As Fickle as an Orange Is Orange