Special Featurerbdspecial feature, will stanier, poetry

Will Stanier: You Wouldn’t Believe the Things I’ve Done

Special Featurerbdspecial feature, will stanier, poetry
Will Stanier: You Wouldn’t Believe the Things I’ve Done
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Puffs Over

 

The building falls,

I fall asleep.

 

You wouldn’t believe

the things I’ve done

with legal tender,

but I’ll tell you anyway.

 

No, I don’t own a bath mat.

 

The building falls,

white cloud of debris.

A white car speeding slowly

in the foreground.

 

It’s like using a rock

to get out of a hard place, he said.

Which isn’t relative to this,

in fact, it’s entirely different.

Will Stanier lives in Tucson, where he's an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arizona. Before Tucson, he lived in Athens, Georgia, where he co-hosted the reading series Dude, Where’s My Poetry? His chapbook, Fakie, is out byInvalid Press.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness