The Forgiveness Project — after Szymborska
by Kathleen Balma Under what conditions should one admit wrongdoing? Is confessing in a dream as good as in a booth? Who goes
From Your Hostess at the T & A Museum
by Kathleen Balma If you will not tip me for my dance, tip me for daring to ask. Or if, having stared at me directly for the duration of a song
Better
by Kevin Sweeney He thinks it’s only a phase, my niece said about me and her life as a lesbian because I go to Mass every Sunday. I hope when I
Hope
by Kevin Sweeney At first we thought it was the Hope who lived on Broadway, my niece’s high school friend but this Hope was from Ferry Village,
Mark Schorr
currently serves as Executive Director of the Robert Frost Foundation in Lawrence, Massachusetts. His new manuscript is Sonnets and Songs of (I)
Megan Grumbling
serves as Reviews Editor for The Café Review. Her work is included in the 2010 edition of Best New Poets, published by the University of