A GODLESS ASCENDS
Trish Hopkinson

 

 

 

Alcune Nature Morte or
The Game of Life

Gianluca Muratori
& Martha Ronk

Allison Blevins received her MFA at Queens University of Charlotte and is a Lecturer for the Women’s Studies Program at Pittsburg State University and the Department of English and Philosophy at Missouri Southern State University. She has been a finalist for the Cowles Poetry Book Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and the Moon City Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in such journals as Mid-American Review, the minnesota review, Nimrod International Journal, Sinister Wisdom, and Josephine Quarterly. Her chapbook, A Season for Speaking, is part of the Robin Becker series from Seven Kitchens Press. She lives in Missouri with her wife and three children.

 

 

Anonymous Landscape
(September 1st)

Yuko Otomo

 

 

 

Counting In Dog Years 

  by Frank H. Coons

David J. Rothman serves as the Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, where he also directs the Poetry Concentration, edits the journal THINK, and directs the annual conference Writing the Rockies. His most recent book, co-edited with Jeffrey Villines, is Belle Turnbull: On the Life & Work of an American Master (Pleiades, 2017). His most recent volumes of poetry, both of which appeared in 2013, are The Book of Catapults (White Violet Press) and Part of the Darkness(Entasis Press). A collection of creative nonfiction about mountains and mountain towns, Living the Life (Conundrum Press), also appeared in 2013. His poems, essays and scholarly work have appeared widely, in journals including Agni, Appalachia, Atlantic Monthly, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Mountain Gazette, New Criterion, Poetry, Sewanee Review, Threepenny Review and scores of other newspapers, journals and books. In 2018 he won a Pushcart Prize for the poem “Kernels,” which originally appeared in The New Criterion. He co-founded the Crested Butte Music Festival, was the founding Publisher and Editor of Conundrum Press (now an imprint of Bower House Books of Denver), and currently serves as Resident Poet with Colorado Public Radio and as Poet Laureate of Colorado’s Western Slope (2017-’19). With Toni Todd he co-founded and serves as co-director of the Gunnison Valley Poetry Festival and Reading Series. He lives with his family in Crested Butte, Colorado. ​

Devon Miller-Duggan has published poems in Rattle, Shenandoah, Margie, Christianityand Literature, Gargoyle. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Delaware. Her books include Pinning the Bird to the Wall (2008), Neither Prayer, Nor Bird (2013), Alphabet Year, (2017).

 

 

 

Even Now 

by Jill Sabella & Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

 

 

Footprints in the Trail
(Spring 2020)

Will C. Minor

 

 

 

FRAGMENT SCIENCE 
Paul Vangelisti & William Xerra

 

 

Hang On To The
Yangtze River

Neeli Cherkovski

 

 

Letters To Joan
Allison Blevins

 

 

 

Liquid Prisoner

Paul Vangelisti

Martha Ronk is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently a book on photographs, Ocular Proof. Her collection, Transfer of Qualities, was longlisted for the National Book Award and named an NPR notable book in 2013. Vertigo (Coffee House), influenced by W. G. Sebald's work of the same name, was selected for the 2007 National Poetry Series. Her book, Silences, was published by Omnidawn in 2019. 

 

 

 

My Brother's Keeper
David J. Rothman

Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I(2015). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974.

 

 

 

PINK
yuko otomo

 

 

Poison In Small Doses

 by Tammy Bendetti

 

 

 

Primate Poems 

 by Danny Rosen

 

 

 

QWERTY & CHICKEN WINDOWS
 by Jack Mueller