by Meg Day When they removed the yellow tape from the doorway, our neckless birds still sat, unfolding, on the tabletop, his stack of paper—foils & florals & one tartan velum—fanning out […]
What Will I Tell His Daughter
Arrival
by Ann LaBar When I arrive, my father will ask, “They pay you for that?” And I will answer no. Payment For poetry is rarely legal tender. It is broken barrettes, non-pareils […]
Tricia Booker on getting overwhelmed
Somehow it helps when someone else admits to pain you feel yourself. “Peeps, I am in a trench. You know how I get. My 2014 Happiness Project has taken a direct hit, […]
Parents Without Partners Toga Dance, Circa 1970’s
by Patricia Fargnoli Stardust hung over the American Legion Hall as we headed from our car to the door, sheathed in sheets, mid-life, pocketbooks swinging. Something better happen, Maureen said. As we […]
Letting. It. Go.
By Molly Caro May Giving birth to a baby and a book the same year. Molly Caro May, author of a newly released memoir, The Map of Enough, shares the struggle and unexpected beauty […]
Not So Minor Characters: The Beats’ Female Voice
By Monica Wendel Last weekend – an icy one in which I was batting that energy-draining combination of hangover and new-semester cold – a friend pressed a copy of Joyce Johnson’s Minor […]
My Psycho Valentine
By Julia Connolly Even as a little girl I found the gooey-ness of Valentine’s Day suspect. Yeah, the candy was great, but all those hearts, flowers, red and pink everything made me […]
Maxine Kumin June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin resided in Warner, New Hampshire, on Pobiz Farm, where she took her morning nude swim for decades. Morning Swim by Maxine Kumin Into […]
Ever-Daring, Ever-Playful Erica
An Astute and rave Review of Erica Dawson’s two books of poetry in Oxford American In “The Evolution of Erica Dawson,” Russell Willoughby writes, “Erica Dawson writes in assertive, sometimes defiant, declaratives. […]
Girls, We Got the Green Light to Get Read
Let’s make the most of it. This just in from The Guardian: “Bias towards male writers – underlined in 2013 study – fuels drive to switch attention to female authors,” writes Allison […]
The Gloria Sirens 