samantha madway

Unrecovered Poem by Samantha Madway

Rooms filthy from all the sorrow. Trashcans filled with tissues filled with snot. Dark circles dyed under every eye. Dead skin cells, bits of nails from nervous nibbling coat [...]

September 2, 2016

days i can’t carry by anna meister

June 1, 2015

Road trips are a good way to test compatibility. I know I love him because he doesn’t irritate me all that much even when [...]
A DATING PROFILE THAT HAS BEEN PARTIALLY FILLED IN WITH A SMARTPHONE’S PREDICTIVE TEXT FEATURE and other poems by Linette Reeman

June 20, 2017

[after Madeline Lessing] My name is: HELLO BEAUTIFUL I AM ALIVE TODAY AND PHEW BOY AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG My age is: [...]
Three Poems by M.F Nagel

August 1, 2014

Love or a trick of light Somewhere East of the the pale moons of twilight Cometh the iceman Sing ‘in memory in vespers’ [...]
Garden Before The Move by Jean C. Howard

March 19, 2016

Like an old movie, sepia tone soaking through light falling frame by frame, slow death rattling across the pavers, Or even [...]
Out on the Eastern Slopes and other stories by Steve Passey

May 24, 2017

My Grandfather hunted. My father hunted. Everyone we knew hunted. Everyone knew someone on the reserve. A treaty card allows [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

February 1, 2015

Tightly Packed Sardines Forget the niceties And note the following: While you are tightly packed Like sardines in a can, [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #10

June 1, 2015

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 10 are: Autobiography by Deirdre Coyle Blizzard of 1950, Eatontown [...]
Three Poems by Ariel Francisco

August 1, 2015

Self Portrait With Moths After Rain Moths stumble through dusk, descending towards the glow of a glimmering lamppost [...]
Dying to Leave by Ashlie Allen

February 1, 2015

I made sure everyone was asleep before I tried again. I had nothing to carry just the weight of uncertainty. No one knew how [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #16

September 2, 2016

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 16 are: Two Poems by C.M Keehl Two Poems by Erin McIntosh [...]
With Feathers by Sheldon Lee Compton

April 10, 2017

What place is safe now, so we can say what our good logic leads us to understand? Saying we will create our own sunlight, [...]
Summer Storm and Birds by Jason Brightwell

March 19, 2016

Evening sky sags in recovery, hanging a lantern — yellow half-light, birds recognize the nearing end of a summer storm. [...]