Michael Torres was born and brought up in Pomona, California where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Water~Stone Review,Southern Indiana Review, and online as The Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week, among others. He has received grants from the Minnesota State […]
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Kirsten Kaschock
Kirsten Kaschock is the author of four poetry books and a chapbook: Unfathoms (Slope Editions), A Beautiful Name for a Girl (Ahsahta Press), WindowBoxing (Bloof Books), The Dottery (University of Pittsburgh Press/winner of AWP Donald Hall Prize), and Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer (Subito Press). Coffee House Press published her debut speculative novel– Sleight. She teaches […]
kerry rawlinson: “Shear”
I popped the ice-cream in the microwave and my lukewarm coffee in the freezer – (not premature dementia, you see, but fracture). Today, I yanked up yesterday’s jeans that still had yesterday’s panties down one leg. It didn’t matter. I wore them that way all day.
kerry rawlinson
Decades ago, autodidact & bloody-minded optimist kerry rawlinson gravitated from sunny Zambian skies to solid Canadian soil. Fast-forward: she follows art & literature’s Muses around the Okanagan, barefoot, her patient husband ensuring she’s fed. She’s won a few contests (eg. Geist; PostcardsPoems &Prose; CaGo), and recent work appears in: CincinattiReview; grey borders; NewFlashFiction Review, Literary Review of […]
Elizabeth Cantwell: “The People Who Live In Boats”
It is easy to become one of the people who live in boats. You can actually make the decision yourself—all you need is a boat and a body of water, unless you want to be one of the people who live in boats in their driveways, which is certainly the less attractive option. There are […]
Elizabeth Cantwell: “Housewarming”
The garden the previous tenants left is abandoned save for a handful of peppers hanging on tenacious thumbing their flesh at the heat I roll our trash cans next to them I am replete with June High noon I am convinced there is something medically wrong with me My voice has been hoarse for a […]