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Drama

  • What’s Needed by Greg Farnum

Fiction

  • A Good Tabernero Listens by Ruthie Marlenée
  • All I Have Is Yours by Linda Boroff
  • Remembering Leta by Adrienne Ross Scanlan
  • Effort by Andrew Nicholls
  • Something in Between by Allison Whittenberg

Non-fiction

  • The Old Ball Game by Terry Barr
  • Existing in a Time of Pandemic by Ann Bodle Nash
  • Waiting for It to End by Jennifer Brennock
  • Rethinking Scarcity: A Journey Through New Mexico’s Gypsum Dunes by Katherine Michalak
  • Don’t Wake the Monsters! by Suzanne Olson
  • What’s in a Face or The Eyes Have It by Christopher Thornton

Poetry

  • Deathbed Drawing of Keats by Joseph Severn by Anne Pitkin
  • Communion by Sandra Kacher
  • To the Light by Kathleen Holliday
  • Meditations by Andrew Michael Roberts
  • Christmas Break by Mel Flannery
  • The Taste of Praise by Elya Braden
  • Lapse by Samantha Malay
  • Journal Entry: Even If It Takes All Night by David B. Prather
  • Moviegoers by Ace Boggess
  • Arachne by Christopher Nye
  • Quilting by Dan Overgaard
  • Captain Frank by John Hicks

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Category / Poetry

Moviegoers

By Ace Boggess

It’s about forgetting
what’s beyond your few feet of space.

Does it make you laugh? Think? Cry?
Cringe gripping the armrest of your seat?

Continue reading… "Moviegoers"

Journal Entry: Even If It Takes All Night

By David B. Prather

You’d think darkness enough
to lull, but the streetlight flares up
at the foot of the bed, burns all night.
Some parts of the world fall deeper
into their shadows, and some
shape themselves into creatures
you cannot name. I cannot name
all the reasons why I am unable
to remember my dreams.

Continue reading… "Journal Entry: Even If It Takes All Night"

Footprints in the Snow

By Christopher Nye

These are French footprints,
leaving the road north of Beauvais,
disappearing into a Norman wood.
Boot size and tread say—a man.

Continue reading… "Footprints in the Snow"

A Poem

By Ray Sharp

This broad plank of a table,
wood warped and wavy,
pitches the most familiar things —
cups, bowls, my orange thermos —

Continue reading… "A Poem"

The Family

By Tara K. Shepersky

There are four of them: two solid sorrel horses,
and two spotted goats.

Some permutation of patterns is always grazing
side by side. Or sometimes playing—

Continue reading… "The Family"

Sustenance

By Quinn Bailey

Tonight the wind will not let
The trees sleep.

Branches to the ground,
The few squat evergreens
Sway through the meadow

Continue reading… "Sustenance"

Bareback

By Ranney Campbell

Don’t you ever get lonely, he asked.
I understand, I don’t like people either
but sometimes, he said, I just need them.

Continue reading… "Bareback"

Walking the Shelter Dogs

By John Delaney

When I walk past the adoption cages,
each dog makes a case to be the chosen,
with a bark, a jumping up, some raucous
reason to be recognized and singled out.

Continue reading… "Walking the Shelter Dogs"

Telling Time

By Kathryn Hunt

Tonight, I stood outside, named the stars
you’d named for me. Dug out maps
that told you how to go. My actions,
you once said, let those stand for me.

Continue reading… "Telling Time"

Between

By Samantha Malay

trespass quietly
to smell the end of summer
in the sundown trees
and lunchbox rust

Continue reading… "Between"

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