Matthew M. Cariello
is a writer and teacher originally from New Jersey, currently living in Columbus, Ohio, where he is on the faculty of the English Department at
David Budbill
newest book of poems, Happy Life, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in September of 2011. He is the author of two other Copper Canyon
Creation
by Wade Linebaugh These are the final nights of spring. A man feels God under the hot stars, when he must take fistfuls of grass just to stay
fall fugue
by Wade Linebaugh the pebble in my mouth tastes like chalk, an acrid river-rock culled from the bed of earth’s strangest river. i sympathize with
“all the tired horses in the sun how’m i s’posed to get any riding done?”
by Wade Linebaugh Being a strange boybird, Icarus is too busy to take Mom & Dad’s calls & a little girl eats wagon wheels covered in
To Whom
by Anele Rubin To whom can you say the wind suddenly stopped, the evening clouds were tinted pink, the mare laid her heavy head on my shoulder?