by Peter Burzynski | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Mom said, Kiss her hand.I didn’t want to kiss my teacher;especially not on the bulginggreen vein of her thin hands.I think she had red hair. She waskind. She sent a memo home:the boys shouldn’t drop their pantsall the way when using the urinal. “Fathersteach zippers...
by Ed Werstein | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Incense and extinguished candlesScent my small-town Saturday night.Post-benediction, our priest returns to the rectory.Stained-glass filters church light into the dusk.A mourning dove signals daylight’s departure. We wait at the corner storefor the truck from the...
by Karla Huston | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
I’m one of those readers who start at the beginning of a volume of poems. I don’t page through, nor do I read the end of the book first. While reading Sarah Sadie’s new collection of poems, however, I found myself drawn to the narrative that scrolls across the bottom...
by Michael Kriesel | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Milwaukee poet Mark Zimmermann’s first full-length poetry collection, Impersonations, dazzles with a gallery of pithy portraits written in a novel form. Take, for instance, “Osama bin Laden.” Islam is all.Man is madein Islam. And as manis old as sand, soIslam is...
by Steve Tomasko | Nov 2, 2016 | Magazine Article
I came across a dead porcupine sitting on its bellylooking asleep—his only sign of injury a crookedand bloody nose—and thought perhaps I’d get a poemout of it—this corpse I nearly stumbled overin the dark cedar copse. But the world doesn’t always give you poemswhen...
