Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such negotiations. As a mere reader unacquainted with this superb poet, I cannot say what ...

I. blows its whistle below the lumberyard. since a big company bought its name. dryer crease, crossing limbs. II. asks homes ...

Carolyn Martin’s poems have appeared in more than 200 publications throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. She ...

Mark Connelly’s fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, Milwaukee Magazine, Cream City Review, The Ledge, The Great American ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

“The tower tall strikes bells. The day slinks out/Leaving behind skies watercolor clear/And gives the evening air the taste of song” ...

“And so things continue as before, because in a post-historical era, sprinkled with German-Hegelian state worship and a view of oneself as the summit of civilizational development, there is no need to ...

far away, blind to the actuality of being.

“we struck/each other so often, too often,/like astronauts/scraping for the last flight/back to earth” for all I could not say. You hit the brakes. “Get out.” “No.” “No one curses at me.” “It’s not at ...