edward birt

You are what you eat and I’m not meat by Edward Birt

Bacon. Ham. Sausage. Steak. None of this gets on my plate. Chops. Chorizo. Squid and offal. Divine to some, to me just awful! “Why?!” folks say – “Meat’s so [...]

February 23, 2017

The Season Finale by Carly Berg

February 1, 2014

George, I realized as we turned onto our street, had ruined my life. His eagerness to play big provider made it too easy to just be a mother. Our daughter barely looked up from chatting with her new dorm mates when I waved good-bye. Now I was nothing. <a href=""> Read More... [...]
On a Photograph Never Taken of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Friends, Manhattan, May 1, 1920 by Benjamin Goluboff

September 2, 2016

Fifth Avenue had been cleared and they drove Stanley Dell’s Buick twelve blocks down the parade route before a cop [...]
The Same Shine by Ernest Gordon Taulbee

October 23, 2017

The absence of a hangover made Samuel suspect he was dead. Last night’s moonshine had the perfect mix of burn and corn [...]
When the sun is close and other poems by Miriam Calleja

August 14, 2017

What do you do if you’re that close to the edge, And you don’t know how you got there? How do you feel when, Just by [...]
My Empty Stomach by Ashlie Allen

September 2, 2016

I am too dizzy to eat, though the lemon cake smells good. She made it for me because she knows I am sad. We will argue when [...]
Patience, Dear by Ira Herbold

October 1, 2014

I am waiting in a darkened room, facing the door, hands on knees. I am waiting for Christianity to seem plausible. I am [...]
Family of Four Lokos by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

February 26, 2017

Stephanie, John, and Hector spent an evening in early July selling their art on a sidewalk in Old City. The money – all [...]
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 [...]
SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT PLAYS GOD and other poems by Stephanie Tom

January 24, 2017

The phenomenon of Schrödinger’s cats states: being that the cat was simultaneously half-alive and half-dead in the [...]
Homeward and other poems by MJ Santiago

June 13, 2017

I thought I remembered digging into your soft sides, dripping splinters on the ground. And after that a hole remained. We [...]
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 [...]
In Which All of My White Ex-Boyfriends Simultaneously Run For President by Khaya Osbourne

May 29, 2017

the careless whisper, soft pair of lips, hushed ‘i love you’ that you threw into the night comes back to your [...]