by Nicholas Gulig | Jul 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
The election happened and now you’re driving north.November freezes in the birch trees. The fieldshave nothing left. In Wisconsin where you pass themthe hills go rolling autumn through the cold.You’re home again. The edges of the cloudsturn gray. You change the...
by Hansa Kerman Pistotnik | Jul 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
Exhausted, this light.It was supposed to shinepiercingly brightset the roof ablazemelt the fire escapespark mica in the wallsinge a rat’s whiskersin its hole.But side-swiped by a taxi doorwindow-slammed off discount storeit launched from hood of truckin a streamonly...
by Georgia Ressmeyer | Jul 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
Life may not be as bleak as it seems. The hurried seasons—spring, summerand fall—may plow into winter’s caboose, send it vamoosing. Usually winter sits on a side rail out backnot moving an iced-up muscle. Now and then we poke it with a shovel,but that accomplishes...
by Ronnie Hess | May 1, 2017 | Magazine Article
Thomas J. Erickson’s first full-length poetry collection, The Biology of Consciousness, stopped me dead in my tracks, even before I cracked the cover. What on earth could the book or its title poem mean? Various sources tell me this: while not understood, the biology...
by Lisa Vihos | May 1, 2017 | Magazine Article
My measure of a poem’s quality is often found in the question, “How did the poet think of that?” If that poem should happen to begin an entire collection that has me asking that same question again and again, well, then I know I have something really special in my...
