Category: Spring 2014 Issue

No consolation!
by Natasha Georgievska We are too young to die like that Quiet and peaceful We rather bleed on the tavern floor With wine on lips and knives

His Wife and Girlfriend . . .
by Gerald Locklin Are the confidantes he would most like To take conversational refuge From each other with, But he’s learned each wants to hear

Big Glimmer
by George Bowering The ocean is always evaporating, he says, as if he were Friedrich Nietzsche, human kind is no better, I’ve reached a great age

A Late Smile
by George Bowering I was born in December, and now I’m in the December of my life. Has anyone seen what next year will be like or whether I’ll

Andrew Abbott

Xue Di Interview
Interview with Xue Di on the poetry of revolution, life in the United States, and the precise word The following phone and email interview with

I See Hunger’s Children
Selected Poems 1962–2012, by normal, LUMMOX Press, 2013, 111 pages, paper, $15, ISBN: 978-1-929878-80-2 Buy the Book My favorite poem in this

In a Kingdom of Birds
by Ken Fontenot, Pinyon Publishing, 2012, 73 pages, paper, $15.00, ISBN: 978-1-936671-07-6 Buy the Book Can ordinary lives be written simply?

Calendars of Fire
by Lee Sharkey, Tupelo Press, 2013, 60 pages, paper, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1-936797-26-4 Buy the Book “Why do we war on each other? This is an
