Tag: Issue 5

  • ON THE RIVER

    The river stands still, a mirror for the full night sky and the clouds passing, turning by degrees from black to gray to flat white as they move in front of the moon and take in her light.  Even the river’s main channel, the parent bed over whose banks the water poured when power dams…

  • WHY I LEAVE THE HOUSE EARLY

    She never turns off the coffee pot. Black and boiling, an empty glass bomb slowly warming to a pending fire. When I turn it off she shivers, says it’s too cold for her to consider, then blames me when she burns her tongue. Next time I’ll let it sit, sip my mug from outside. Watch…

  • Sheikha A.

    Sheikha A. is from Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. Over 300 of her poems appear in a variety of literary venues, both print and online, including several anthologies by different presses. Her work is forthcoming in The Seventh Quarry, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Clockwise Cat and elsewhere. More about her can be accessed on…

  • Babette Cieskowski

    Originally from Oahu, Hawaii, Babette Cieskowski has lived in southern Florida, Kitzingen, Germany and central Texas. She is currently earning an MFA in poetry from Ohio State University. Her poems have been published in Coastlines, The Rectangle, Black Heart Magazine, Arsenic Lobster, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Compose.

  • Robert Long Foreman

    Robert Long Foreman’s ction has won a Pushcart Prize and contests at Willow Springs and The Cincinnati Review. A collection of his essays, Among Other Things, is forthcoming from Pleiades Press in February 2017. He is writing a novel. His website is http://www.robertlongforeman.com.

  • Bayleigh Fraser

    Bayleigh Fraser is an American poet currently residing and writing in Canada. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Bad Penny Review, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Forage Poetry, Hart House Review, One, Rattle, and other publications.

  • Beth Konkoski

    Beth Konkoski is a writer and high school English teacher living in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children. Her work has been published in literary journals such as: Mid- American Review, The Baltimore Review, and The Potomac Review. In 2010 her chapbook “Noticing the Splash” was published by BoneWorld Press. She enjoys reading…

  • Dorene O’Brien

    Dorene O’Brien has won Red Rock Review’s Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the New Millennium Fiction Award and the international Bridport Prize. She is a NEA and a Vermont Studio Center creative writing fellow. Her stories have appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Chicago Tribune, the Montreal Review, Detroit Noir and others. Voices of…

  • Dorene O’Brien

    Dorene O’Brien has won Red Rock Review’s Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the New Millennium Fiction Award and the international Bridport Prize. She is a NEA and a Vermont Studio Center creative writing fellow. Her stories have appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Chicago Tribune, the Montreal Review, Detroit Noir and others. Voices of…