Katie Kenney is a recent graduate of University of Denver’s Publishing Institute and received her MFA in Creative Writing ...

Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such ...

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

As the passing pumpkin moon. Like a dream so phenomenal, like a diamond glows. Melancholic sense grows. Sarah Samarbaf is a poet with a background in performing arts.

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

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

“This insufficient code of the soil—/aphasia’s shorthand where/language lathers in mud, masquerades its atoms” ...

“Yet these walls sound with echoes of the past,/With whispered prayers which linger in the air/And animate this space – still holding fast:/A shelter from the passing world’s despair.” A shelter from ...

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 ...