claire polders

Locked In, Locked Out by Claire Polders

Minnie pushes her shopping cart down the aisles and thinks about getting a car. Not to drive it, for she has nowhere to go, but to sit in it on rainy Sunday afternoons. [...]

January 4, 2016

Two Poems by Mark Jackley

June 1, 2014

IT SNOWS, THE DEAD RETURN In the chill blanketing the barn horses shiver like rubber- booted fathers at the door who softly [...]
Pitiful by Jeffrey Zable

May 29, 2016

Driving home in a cold, pouring rain I spot this guy limping along in the street completely barefoot, wearing only a t-shirt [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #8

February 1, 2015

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 8 are: Dying To Leave By Ashlie Allen French Press by Hannah White [...]
Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard

January 30, 2017

You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in [...]
Crying in Cars with Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy

March 9, 2017

Footsteps follow me in the parking lot, looking back I see only dead leaves turning in the breeze —it must be the ghosts. [...]
Planting Flowers and other poems by Paul Wiegel

February 20, 2017

Each one blooms a beginning. They look like white teacup tops, or like a lobes of the brain with all those tucks and folds [...]
Toxic Shock by Alex Creece

May 29, 2016

First Aid 1.01: do not remove an embedded object yourself. Even after the obligatory hospital visit, I was never fully [...]
The Prescription by Jenya Doudareva

March 1, 2017

It was about time to renew summer. Traditionally, a person or a group that had the necessary power would do it. It was [...]
the rainy part of the world by mark petterson

June 1, 2015

After the rundown middle school where I tutor a thirteen-year-old who reads at a second-grade level, and really we just read [...]
How were we to know? by Daniel Von der Embse

April 1, 2015

A small, scented patch of paper is all that remains of the time we lived together above the all-night barbershop on [...]
four poems by Justin Hyde

April 1, 2015

i haven’t been with his wife in three months as i come out of the showers towel around my waist at the ymca he’s [...]
A Call to the Stronger Sex by Christine Stoddard

March 6, 2017

Ancestors whisper hungrily from their cradles of stars They will haunt us until we women-folk feed their obsession for [...]