Welcome to Issue 8: Spring 2019! Click here to read our Editor’s thoughts on the epic amount of rain Indianapolis has been getting and the guilt that comes with not writing during NaPoMo.
Featured Poet: Willy Palomo: click here to read our conversation about ‘political’ poetry, making comfortable readers uncomfortable, the responsibility of the poet to their society and their subject matter, Palomo’s exploration of his El Salvadorean parents’ stories, and the power, as well as the limitations, of poems.
Three poems by Willy Palomo:
Featured Artist: Peter Bethanis
July Westhale Dear John Cheever
Sam Herschel Wein For the Glitter
Savannah Slone dismantle my oddities
Spaceflight Sonata P By-Naoko Fujimoto
Featured Artist: Naoko Fujimoto
Maureen Sherbondy Frozen Clock
Wesley Sexton After Eating Pizza I found in A Public Place
Leslie Contreras Schwartz MY MOTHER THE SEAMSTRESS
Anum Sattar thai balsam
Featured Artist: Minami Kobayashi
Gabriel Rubi Running Backward
Benjamin Niespodziany Yellow Applause
V. C. McCabe Judgement
BJ Love TODAY WHEN I WOKE UP
Merigomish Sunrise Trail By-Keith Moul
Eddie Krzeminski Quitting
Dillon Thomas Jones
burned letter to birth mother: tell my father if you see him
burned letter to birth mother: bedtime storytime 2
Carly Inghram What sort of animal are you
Kathleen Hellen Black Cat, Oyster Bar
Kegs and Eggs By-Ben Pinder
Kelle Groom Rape Kit
Kasey Clark Psalm as David and My Twin Harvest
Serafina Rogers Foundation
Nic Alea Dead Name