Category: Winter 2014 Issue
W. E. Butts
John F. Buckley
lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is attending the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. His second book of poems written in
Michael Bove
Karina Borowicz
has published a collection, The Bees Are Waiting, which was selected by Franz Wright for the Marick Press Poetry Prize and was named a 2013
Dick Allen
his eighth collection of poems, This Shadowy Place (St. Augustine’s Press), won the 2013 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His earlier new poems are
Sitting on an Old Stone Fence, Looking into the Distance
by Dick Allen Far away, there’s what might be a windmill or a silo, or just a trick of the eye, and are those eye specks or crows floating out
Her Secret
by Wesley McNair Why Thurman must cover every counter top, table and chair with his things, Wilma no longer asks, knowing he will only answer as
Crepuscule
by Sydney Lea There’s a man with two bearded collies: on his drive back home from an office, the widower passes the three at 5:30. When winter
Cartography in Retrospect
by Mike Bove Roads to nowhere, rivers flowing back into hills: I can think of several wrong ways to draw a map. All it takes is one slack stride
Side by Side
by Mark DeFoe In decency and calm our homes repose. Flowers bless our summer. Each fall we rake. When the snow comes we heave the snow aside So