christine stoddard

A Call to the Stronger Sex by Christine Stoddard

Ancestors whisper hungrily from their cradles of stars They will haunt us until we women-folk feed their obsession for tradition At least those are the stories that creep [...]

March 6, 2017

Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard

You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in trailers [...]

January 30, 2017

In Retrospect and other poems by Z.M.Wise

August 2, 2017

I should have looked both ways. I should have seen your forceful wishes to confuse me into mental paralysis. If I should [...]
Grateful Mother by Kayla Pongrac

February 1, 2015

When I was a child I owned a teddy bear that I leashed and dragged into supermarkets and banks and shopping malls. His eyes [...]
Drinking your Lye by Nicholas Olsen

July 16, 2017

I see pieces of you everywhere I go, smell hints of your perfume in drafts of wind as I walk down this old block trying to [...]
Three Poems by Andrea Lawler

August 1, 2015

Life is a Book Written by Bukowski Sitting in the car in the sweltering heat in the hospital parking lot waiting for my [...]
Arriving at LAX by Pamela Hammond

March 19, 2016

Flying in a 747 at 30,000 feet, through the porthole, a sunset wedges between the Pacific and mango-colored clouds. Nearly [...]
Pollen for the un-buried monster by Ashlie Allen

March 12, 2017

Grandma sat on the steps with me, not to spend time but to show me mercy. “You stink, little man.” she coughed. “Are [...]
June’s suspicious eyes by Raphael Maurice

March 15, 2017

You would say root and I saw it, the deep goodness of brittle earth. Blossom, you’d sing, as I licked my lips & fell [...]
Monogamy and other poems by Nooks Krannie

April 11, 2017

is it ok to not like life but still like you? somewhat i’m proud of my breasts and my nipples are warriors like mountain [...]
Photophobia by Bobbi Lurie

August 1, 2014

I pray he will eat. I know he won’t let me make him food. His fear of wasting water overwhelms him so he rushes to [...]
New Place by Rebecca Guest

October 1, 2014

The promise of newly painted walls lining empty rooms, a kind of hubris that sings up your arms, popping goosepimples of [...]
Family Reunion In Three Parts by Jessica Adams

March 19, 2016

1. It had been my aunt’s room when she lived at home. And after that, when she moved back to teach at the elementary [...]
Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard

January 30, 2017

You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in [...]

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