Poetry

 

Young Lady with Banjo, ambrotype, c. 1865. Randolph Linsly Simpson African American Collection, Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

 

Jennifer Blair

“Melancholy”  

“Question”

Timothy Dyson

“Miss Lena’s Country Buffet”  

“So-Called Life”

Oriana Ivy

“O’Keefe: The Black Iris”  

“My First Love Wears Dentures”

 “Rose O Pure Contradiction (Eurydice to Rilke)”

Lissa Kiernan

“Nocturne”  

“The Craft”

Eileen Malone

“Pasteur: Coded for Error”

Ryan Mattern

“What We Become”

John McKernan

“Silence”

Christine Reilly

“The Horrible Thing Happened” 

“The Day I Became a Bird”

Ron Riekki

“I Don’t Want the Women Who Want Me”

Francine Sterle

“[how much of the map]”

Jessica Tyner

“Two Days Prior to the Burial”  

“How to Oil an Indian Man’s Hair”

James Valvis

“Altars”    

“At Least People”

Bill Wolak

“Tea Time”  

“One Venetian Sodomy Law”  

“Cassanova Explains the Invention of the Bra”