Past Issues

A Destroyed Sense of Self

Three poems by Theo Czepiel GLASS Staring in a mirror I see myself, Beautiful and not broken. The mirror shiny and perfect. An ornate...

Two Poems

By William Gross Meaningless Meaningless encounters - I can count you by the dozen. How prideful others are of their numbers - listen to...

Nature

Three Poems by Lauren Martin The Death of Nature The woods are thick, alive, thriving as the home to billions of microscopic residents....

Whispers of My Mortality

Three Poems by Kayli Hinkley The Hanging Tree “I was just a boy when I watched them hang a man from that tree,” Papaw said from the...

Tastes Like Heaven

by Jennifer Gambrel Snow fell silently on the coffin. Tommy watched, just as silently. The shiny brown was disappearing under white...

Ghost Riders (and other poems)

by Megan Lanphere Ghost Riders The hoofs beat along the path behind you. Breath is coming in short gasps while your lungs are screaming....

Siblings By Chance, Friends By Choice

by Arsheen Surani In December of 2019, my family spontaneously decided to go to Texas as we wanted to spend the holidays with our...

Longing

By Landon Perkins Longing the smell of autumn in the air brings back blessed memories of those left behind the crunch of the leaves...

Our Kids Deserve More

By Emily Roark Today’s kids are weak. Sure, you were born into mass shootings, broken households, and a financial crisis you didn’t...

Personal And Interpersonal

by Erin Achauer There is no monster in the closet Coming for your children It is just them As they truly are It is you You are maiming...

Jack Daniel's and a Girl

by Paige G. Brooks Ezra Thomas had just begun, as it seems at every free moment, sitting at the Rainbow Bar and Grill, ceding every...

The Idea of Love

By Katelyn Helton My newly applied mascara was running down my cheeks. My vision blurred from the piddling tears in my sockets as I held...

The Day that Changed Me

By Kali Hinkley It was a rainy December morning. I flipped through the pages of a novel as snow fell silently through the window. Hot...

The Market Cart

By Jennifer Gambrel Sway. Sway. Bump. Bubbles fall around us, popping on the buggy, the horse, me. They leave a slightly sticky spot...

Growth (A Collection of Poems)

By Erin Achauer My Poems Poetry is a way for me to unwind all the thoughts from my head Let all of my feelings out and catalog them on...

Holiness and a Lack Thereof and other poems

by Gabby Chumley I want you to hear this pass from my lips Before it passes from someone else’s: There is a hymn dying softly on the...

The Death of Love

By Symphony Jones The room was solemn. Nothing could be heard but the steady breaths between the couple. The duo who could have once...