October Contributors

L. Ward Abel, Paul David Adkins, Eva Alter, Naa AshleyAfua Adowaa Ashitey, James Benger, Wayne F. Burke, Simon Collinson, Steven Bruce, Charlotte Cosgrave, Dario Cvencek, Jason Davidson, Derek Dew, Gabrielle Brant Freeman, Adrian Frey, GTimothy Gordon, Ewen Glass, Howie Good, GRSTALT Comms, Zebulon Huset, John Jeffire, David Koehn, Chantel Lavoie, Zev Levinson, Thomas M. McDade, Robert McDonald, Daniel Edward Moore, Kathleen Nalley, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Jordan Trethewey, Grady VanWright, Philip Venzke, and Terry Ann Wright

Poetry

October Highlights

  • amor y las chuparosas (love and hummingbird charms)

    by Jordan Trethewey

    “‘Divine hummingbird enrich my life and love, so that my lover will want only me.’ -anonymous prayer​.”

  • confessions

    by John Jeffire

    “She looks at him as he looks out the kitchen window into the evening darkness.  She does not think of whose pain she would be easing.”

  • women can be ravenous

    by Terry Ann Wright

    “…we wove a snare. we became / our own noose. o we aver / sour & we savor mourn. we / see moon & we become omen.”

  • gunning it

    by Dario Cvencek

    “you do not need a gun”

  • evolved

    by Chantel Lavoie

    “The last Manson girl-child in prison / whose arm, at 21, grew sore, stabbing / wakes every day, knowing / she’s a destroyer. She regrets.”

  • hoax

    by Jason Davidson

    “I’ll be cold asleep on the floor, with you sutured inside my skull’s / parlor, / a naked cowboy, a shining giant, a beautiful hoax, a permanent coma.”

  • punctuation

    by Wayne F. Burke

    “Add a comma, throw in a dash, use an ellipsis whenever you do not know where to go...”