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is a writer from Los Gatos, California. Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Caveat Lector, Zoland Poetry, Main

lives and works in the other Portland, in Oregon. Other poems have been published recently in Free Lunch, The Tule Review, Off the Coast, Third

is a poet living in Santa Rose, California, who teaches at City College of San Francisco. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fugue,

had a long career as a high – school history teacher. He now divides his time between part – time teaching at Southern Maine

has published stories, poems, and essays in many magazines and anthologies including Cimarron Review (Oklahoma State University Short Fiction

by James K. Zimmerman you’ve got a sick crow in your yard the neighbor said but I know this: crows don’t get sick and

by James K. Zimmerman I lie between two pillows the whole bed is mine tonight you are not here I dream of

by Preston Hood Before the dead crawl out, I stitch it up with the white line of my thinking & watch the sunrise. I enter the mist though a

by Bill Edmondson Is not a town But commemoration Of blankety –blank A few two – story houses Some trailers a road Angling up

by Bill Edmondson Abandoned by a careless sailor Cast out on this verge of a dash Little larger than a sand bar They’re driven to shelter by

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