The swilling drips jump from roofs and trees, clapping their hands, stomping their feet, glowing like firework embers at cathedral heights down, down to the limestone spatter of funerals in motion. And soon the dam exhales particulate spit like a drunkard at a foul memory, and the river hisses hot smoke and smolders with the […]
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Cónal Creedon
Cónal Creedon is a novelist, playwright, and documentary film maker. His fiction has been translated into Bulgarian, German, Austrian, Italian – with extracts published in China. His stage plays have been commissioned by the Irish National Millennium Celebrations Committee, The Irish Arts Council and The European Capital of Culture, and have been awarded two Irish […]
Kierstin Bridger: To the Girl From the Reformatory Town
You wrestled against the clutches of brothers and cousins, etched lessons in your muscle, broke tendencies, rerouted synapse with unwritten chapters entitled, Risk, Pain, and Tolerance. Though pale and tender as your own, you clawed your way into their flesh; red scratches and waning moons of bruise. You carved a language of ferocious prey and […]
Wendy Cannella
Wendy Cannella’s recent publications include the essay “Angels and Terrorists” featured in The Room and The World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn from Syracuse University Press, and the prose poem “Immortality” selected for a special section of shorts in the 35th anniversary issue of Mid-American Review. Other poems have appeared in Phoebe, Free Lunch, […]
Kierstin Bridger
Kierstin Bridger is a Colorado writer and winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, the ACC Writer’s Studio and was short-listed for the Manchester Poetry Competition. She is editor of Ridgway Alley Poems and Co-Director of Open Bard Poetry Series. Her book Demimonde is recently out by Lithic Press. You can find more of her […]
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno’s book, Slamming open the Door (Alice James), a memoir in poetry form about the murder of her daughter, was among the ten best-selling books of poetry in the U.S. in 2009. Bonanno has been the Founding Director of Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts, in Philadelphia, PA since 2011. She has […]