from Ars Poetica? The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys […]

from Heart’s Arrow on the ceiling the Sistine Chapel that tap finger zap that divine big bang iconic connection communion by which I mean art’s arrow flies in one direction […]

Transfiguration of the Beekeeper’s Daughter Because the bees flew toward light the color of honey, she couldn’t see them but heard their hum, deep thrum of the colony come out […]

what I had what I had to have what I had to have taken what I had to have taken from me what I had to have taken from me […]

THE ELIJAH PRINCIPLE – for the next one What if it works the same way, today? What if this snood-scarf I’m making out of yarn from the clearance aisle is […]

WHATEVER ELSE, THE PROGNOSIS IS NOT TOO GRIM – THE POETRY OF JIM MOORE by Dion O’Reilly Whatever Else Whatever else, the little smile on the face of the woman […]

Another Happiness Publish your best work, find a decent job. Eat some sizzling octopus, the many kissing tentacles meaty on your tongue. Success, you think, Joy! For a while anyway, […]

MICHELINE MAYLOR FEATURES KIT DOBSON Dr. Kit Dobson is an extraordinary professor and essayist at the University of Calgary. I call him extraordinary because he hasn’t let the grind of […]

Styx and Stones I have a secret wilderness I keep inside, tight as spider-eggs tucked in for the winter and waiting to be far flung, strung, then tamped tight as […]

Susan Browne Features Chelsea Harlan Recently, I’ve fallen in love with the work of American poet Chelsea Harlan, currently living and working as a librarian in upstate New York. Her […]