Everything Ends With Amen

by on May 10, 2018

Conversation is communion.
Pay attention: G-d is speaking.
Pay attention: someone’s praying.
Same with poems.
Everything ends with amen.

 


Laura M Kaminski grew up in Nigeria, went to school in New Orleans, and currently lives in rural Missouri. Her most recent collection, The Heretic’s Hymnal: 99 New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming from Babylon Books / Balkan Press in 2018. More about her poetry is available at The Ark of Identity.

birds feed off of me

by on May 3, 2018

 

birds feed off of me:
break my eyes
& swallow the tide

 


Jamie O’Connell currently lives in the Bay Area, where she received her MFA in Writing at California College of the Arts. Her work has been featured in Menacing Hedge, Troop Zine, Newfound, and Forth Magazine, and exhibited in College Avenue Galleries in Oakland. She spends most of her time with her majestic zebra-striped dog, Daisy.

Missing birds

by on May 2, 2018

 

Missing birds –
echoes in the empty trees.

 


Steve Klepetar is relocating from Saint Cloud, Minnesota to the Berkshires in Massachusetts. His work has appeared widely and has received a number of nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, including two in 2017. The most recent of his eleven collections include A Landscape in Hell (Flutter Press); Family Reunion (Big Table); and How Glass Shatters (One Sentence Poem Chapbooks).

solstice night

by on Apr 25, 2018

 


Debbie Strange is a Canadian short form poet, haiga artist and photographer whose creative passions bring her closer to the world and to herself. She is the author of Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads (Keibooks 2015) and the haiku collection, A Year Unfolding (Folded Word 2017). Please visit her archive of published work at Warp and Weft ~~ Images and Words.

a bridge

by on Apr 24, 2018

 

a bridge
spanning a frozen river
I sign the DNR

 


Robert Witmer is an American who has resided in Tokyo, Japan, for nearly 40 years. A semi-retired professor and petanque aficionado, he looks forward to trekking again in the Himalaya mountains, where he once recited Whitman to the lovely woman who became his wife. His first book of poetry is titled Finding a Way.

the darkest

by on Apr 18, 2018

 

the darkest
corner of a closet
cut upon cut

 


Jan Benson is a Pushcart Prize nominated haiku poet living in Texas. Her work is in translation in seven languages. Jan is a member of The British Haiku Society, and Poetry Society of Texas. She has work listed in the Living Senryu Anthology and at The Haiku Foundation poet registry. @janbentx

summer’s end

by on Apr 13, 2018

 


Hifsa Ashraf is from Pakistan. She writes short stories, and poetry in different languages (Urdu, English, and Punjabi). Her haiku, senryu, tanka, and haiga have been published in different online journals. She won third place in the Annual Tanka Contest 2017 by Mandy’s Pages. Her short stories have been published in a UK-based English magazine.