Category: Published Issues

Because Our Menu Has Changed
by Steve Luria Ablon Use the telephone keypad. Transmit your social security, careful just the last four numbers. Recall your address, your zip

Because My Last Name Begins With A
by Steve Luria Ablon Who wants to read first? Who will take notes? A last name starting with A is always first, always anxious, always armed. So

Sea City Museum: first return after emigration
by Brian Evans-Jones Sea City Museum: first return after emigration (Southampton, England) She thinks our son’s first word is “Mom”: I

River Tidings
by Brian Evans-Jones No rain here — the clouds thicken but keep mum and if not quite still then at least demure. No rain though the air’s charged

Birthday
by Douglas K. Currier Birthday a poem for J K Durick on the occasion of his birthday I’m not sure when it stops being party and

Rab Wilson
Rab Wilson: was born in Ayrshire and has worked in engineering, coal mining, and psychiatric nursing. His first major work as a poet, bringing

Christie Williamson
Christie Williamson: is a poet originally from Yell, Shetland who now lives in Glasgow. His poems have appeared in the New Shetlander, Gutter,

Chrys Salt
Chrys Salt: has performed at festivals across the UK, Europe, the USA, Canada, Finland, and India and won numerous awards. In 2012 The Burning

Tom Pow
Tom Pow: has written across a range of genres, including fiction, non–fiction, drama, and works for children. But he is primarily a poet.

Michael Pedersen
Michael Pedersen: is an Edinburgh born poet, writer, babbler, etc. He won the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and John Mather’s Trust Rising