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teaches English and creative writing in Portland, Maine and advises the Deering High School literary magazine Breccia. She studied English at

is a recently retired baby boomer child-of-the-sixties freed after working 40 years for “The Man” and sometimes “The Woman.” No more useless

is a poet living in Erie, PA with his wife Ann.

by Ron Androla You are Emily, the lovely Emily, Erie newscaster, soft-light Emily. Emily’s nipples taste Like buttery sandalwood Smoke woven

by normal sean o’neill, eugene’s son passed the syringe over to me “i come from an old line of fuckups,” he said “maybe this is the year i follow

by Gerald Locklin His first time back to Plant-watering duties Subbing for his wife While she spent the days Babysitting their

has poems that have appeared, or are forthcoming, online in La Fovea, the Wesleyan University Press blog, and The New Guard: Bang! Her visual

holds a master’s degree in poetry from Temple University. Her poems have appeared in Chain, EOAGH, The Fanzine, and other journals. She

has published poems in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, and other journals. She is currently collaborating on the modern opera Persephone in

is a freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in The Portland Daily Sun, Dispatch Magazine, Magnitude, The Portland Forecaster,

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