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Today, Lise Quintana and Kevin Sharp explore “A U R O R A” by Luca Bevacqua, submitted to Zoetic Press for the Viable chapbook series. Before the text, we’d like to included a note from the submitter. I’d like to say some things about A U R O R A. I’m sure you noticed some of … Read More
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Today, Lise Quintana and Kevin Sharp explore “growth” by Kassandra Wolfe, submitted to Zoetic Press for the Viable chapbook series. memory [peering through the bathroom door] my first memory is of my mother as I peer through the bathroom door she sits on the edge of the cracked white tub plyers in hand, a towel … Read More
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Today, Lise Quintana and Kevin Sharp explore “Be What’s Left” by Sandy Hiortdahl, and “The Cheshire Cat Goes to the Faroë Islands,” by David Wayne Landrum, submitted for Issue #10, Alice in Wonderland. The Cheshire Cat Goes to the Faroë Islands “All right,” said the cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the … Read More
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Today, Lise Quintana and Kevin Sharp explore The Vivid Now by Nicole Beck, submitted to Zoetic Press for the Viable chapbook series. Borges and Gass1 The soul’s a groping intensity no, we can do better, the soul is a weed stuffed in the crack of a wall, kept alive by the drool of a tiger, … Read More
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Today, Lise Quintana and Kevin Sharp explore “Fighting Tales” by Juleigh Howard-Hobson, submitted for the Hans Christian Anderson issue of NonBinary Review. This poem relates to Hans Christian Anderson’s story “The Nightingale,” which you can read here. Just painted tin. Cheap gems. Baubles attached With glue and held together so tightly The mechanism is going … Read More
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Today, Lise Quintana and Kevin Sharp explore “Journey” by Lowell Jons, submitted for Zoetic Press’s Viable chapbook series. At Night I Pray Like Lincoln Make No Mistake Errant thoughts drift in unforced at 5:30 in the early dawn-proud morn. An owl gently hoots, a more distant coyote yap tip-toes in, a stealthy breeze hushes past. … Read More
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Lise Quintana and NathanTompkins explore three poems by Kia Groom, submitted for Issue #10, Alice in Wonderland. Wonderland Cartologist Started to see them: patches of world rubbed raw. Under, a bright scar. Two things at once, a scratch-off lottery ticket. Helps if I slip on plastic cat eyes, spectrum fade. Helps if I look through … Read More
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Today, Lise Quintana and Andrea Blyth explore “No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise,” by Jane Wiseman, submitted for Issue #10, Alice in Wonderland. No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise There was nothing on it but a tiny gold key. To reach for it. Stretch for it. See the time … Read More
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Today, Lise Quintana and Joey Gould explore “To Break Our Backs With It,” by Brendan Walsh, submitted to The Golden Walkman. Look—the ground bows to us. Dirt mends itself around the world we’ve planted inside Earth we grew from. But ground gives toil, gifts only once broken—a draft mule pushed toward numb-insanity, feeding hands it hates. … Read More
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Today, Lise Quintana and Kolleen Carney explore “Namesake,” by Abigail Ashing, submitted for NonBinary Review‘s Issue #10, Alice in Wonderland. Alice had lost something, or gained it, she hadn’t decided. There were stretch marks now over old scars. A firm, taut body grown soft. Ephemeral changes, all. All but one. Her cawing heart, crow-black and … Read More
