March Contributors

Izzy Nameth Beck, Allyn Bernkopf, David Calogero Centorbi, Cat Dixon, Deron Eckert, R.M. Engelhardt, Marc Frazier, Devon Fulford, Bex Hainsworth, Adele Hally, Jeff Hardin, Katie Johntz, David Lee, Naomi Bess Leimsider, Joshua Lillie, KG Miles, Tempest Miller, James Morehead, Yvonne Morris, Blair Nelsen, Hailey Paetzel, Cara Paleschi, · R L · powell, Prahi Rajput, Mikki Rios, Brad Rose, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Maisie Kennedy Sherriff, Kalina Smith, Annie Williams, Brandon Yu

Poetry

March Highlights

anything that casts a shadow

by Joshua Lillie
“I’m what happens when you surprise an armadillo / with a weekend trip to Pensacola. / I’m the face in the crowd that you can’t quite place. / Am I your uncle? I’m too young to be your uncle.”
the legend of thumbelina as generational trauma: glosa on sylvia plath’s “lady lazarus”

by Kalina Smith
“The apples didn’t fall far / from the gnarled family tree, / covered in cockchafers / who kill the lilies and violet, / burning every shred of beauty down / in just a moment’s flash.”
remedy

by Bex Hainsworth
“It's been fifteen years since I allowed / her fussing, but now we both indulge. / I can’t say which balm soothes the burn. / When she slips teabags into my suitcase, / I smile, hold close her charms.”
museum for the somnambulists

by James Morehead
“We’re together in the galleries / holding hands and pointing / Your father joyous after Canadian Thanksgiving / my father’s father unreadable over a poker hand…”
ass

by Tempest Miller
“A donkey bites my hair / a bear hides in a tree / a bear hides in a tree / but the donkey kicks back legs into a woodburner / and lets go…”

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three poems

by M. Kelley Peach

“The chorus of Mr. Ford’s / Children sing a song of sorrow. / A dirge voiced in screeching rubber tones.”

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three poems

by Brandon Shane

“I touch his cheek, / and he emerges after a decade / consuming the roots of his daydreams…”

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five poems

by Cody Cook

“Some take the blood as ink, / To write what they cannot know- / A grief they hold no claim to.”

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grimso tale to outlast fear

by Zev Levinson

“Children bestride pulsation evernigh Slickening eyebeams betray such wonderfolk Tender this expedition innocent and scarred Outlasting fear as Echidius Stumple did”

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three poems

by Stephen C. Middleton

“So, tonight we dance / In the town under the mountain / & tomorrow / …all fall down.”

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two poems

by Strider Marcus Jones

“drinking absinthe together, hand rolling and smoking cigars- / being is, what it really is…”

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a poet’s path

by Ron Whitehead

“Make love with thunder, / laugh with the roaring wind.”

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smokestack

by Noll Griffin

“There’s a hollow in the sofa that can still support a shadow…”

David Estringel 6/13/25 David Estringel 6/13/25

five poems

by Conor Hultman

“…no shoes or socks at the scene / dense woods near interstate 65 / he is known to authorities as woody"

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momma said be nice

by Chris Kads

“When the men retire / so do the rules / instilled by their mothers.”

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sunday school poems

by Gale Acuff

“After Sunday School today I warned my teacher that she's going to burn because she said Hell and damn again and she says them a lot but she told me that she says them for instructional purposes only…”