Rebbecca Brown

The no puts perspective in a prism or a prison refracts.  Says there are two sides, evenly negated.  The no is a blooming proposition.  It is active, compressed, in between splinters lies a nest of mites.   Give me no to give me bliss.

Sandra Marchetti

My work is steel-girded because of my fathers and mothers in poetry. Instead of divorcing my predecessors, I would rather marry them or at least take up their causes.

Paul Cockeram

When it comes to pleasure, tell the whole story. Always speak in superlatives--the finest performance, the brightest note. I had my best drink, for example, a hundred yards down the beach from a most fascinating hole in the ground.

Kerry James Evans

. . . why are we
so afraid to embrace
each other like our atomic
selves are so wont to do . . .

Simon Perchik

And the river falling into you
lies down the way you are fed
by stones that no longer open

Lauren Scharhag

Here, twigs might just be the strongest material,
The cradle of generations. Bits of trash and hair
Dangle between power lines and dogwood blossoms...