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"Prey" by Peggy Hammond

"Coyote" by Zachary Small

"Coyote" by Zachary Small

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Oleksandr Rupeta

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Postscript Reading Series: Mike Marina Speaks with Poet Chanel Brenner

Chanel Brenner is the author of Vanilla Milk: a memoir told in poems( Silver Birch Press, 2014) which was a finalist for the 2016 Independent Book Awards and honorable mention in the 2014 Eric Hoffer awards. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Raleigh Review, Spoon River, New Ohio Review, Muzzle Magazine, Barrow Street, Salamander, and others. Her poem, “Apology,” won first place in the Smartish Pace Beullah Rose Poetry Prize.

Read her poem "What We Choose to Believe"

Interviews coming soon with poets Mallory Rader and T. Dallas Saylor.

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Send Us Your Work: Submissions Open Until December 15th

We are looking for poems that perform Olympian feats with language that leave a reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human. We want powerful imagery and enjoy the juxtaposition of images in interesting and unexpected ways.

We want poems and stories that make the reader think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or all of the above. We gravitate toward exquisitely crafted writing that has something important to teach us--something that readers really need to know, but might not have understood this was a need until the last word of the work.

See guidelines here.

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Spring 2020 Volume 11

Now Available!

This issue features fiction by J.T. Townley, Matt McGowan, Rebecca Ruth Gould, James West, & Matthew Zazzarino among others; poetry by Jacqueline Jules, Sam Barbee, Tony Gloeggler, David Sapp, Tufik Shayeb, & Mariana Sierra among others; Photography by Teresa Meier, Matt Smith, Brett Stout, Leslie Yerman, Roger Camp, & Matt Willby ; Visual Art by Alyssa Monks; interview with Alyssa Monks

Purchase a copy here.

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