"And here’s the naked stem of thorns…" by Eric Williams

October 5, 2020<October 5, 2020

And here’s the naked stem of thorns…

A gothic tale inspired by the real life story of Dante Rossetti’s exhumation of his wife and pre-Raphaelite muse…

October 2, 2020<October 2, 2020

A poetic ode to famed, and currently controversial, artist Philip Guston, who consistently tried to put himself in other…

September 23, 2020<February 4, 2021

These three poems by Sarah Lilius explore the anguish often endured by women who are trapped, either by their own…

August 31, 2020<August 31, 2020

These three poems by Peter Lilly invite the reader to intimately experience the uneven passage of time. Looking back,…

August 24, 2020<August 24, 2020

These three poems by Phillip Shabazz explore memory haunted by national tragedy and the personal consequences of human acts…

August 17, 2020<August 17, 2020

These three poems by Terence Winch have a radiating grade of dialectical energy in which opposing forces are synthesized,…

August 10, 2020<August 10, 2020

The first of these three poems by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens dances down the aisle of a paint store as colors…

July 27, 2020<October 12, 2020

These three poems by Jacob Grossfeld exist somewhere between the destructive editing of a turpentine burn and an improvisatory…

July 20, 2020<July 26, 2020

These two poems by Matt Dennison explore the complexity and hidden dangers behind and within the seemingly mundane: how…

July 14, 2020<July 14, 2020

A celebration of master storyteller Charles Rammelkamp’s latest release, Catastroika, a poetic exploration of a century of Russian history from…

June 29, 2020<June 29, 2020

These two poems by Hibah Shabkhez are attempts to assuage a guilty conscience that will never cease to lament…

June 22, 2020<June 22, 2020

Sonic play and existential angst pull these two poems by D. R. James toward their exploration of “tongue-tied” uncertainty….