ABOUT THIS ISSUE

Our November 2020 issue features powerful poetry from writers across the world. Imagine a world without the written word. The contributing poets in this issue set the poetic atmosphere with vivid depictions, alluring sounds, and familiar feelings.

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MASTHEAD

Thomas Kneeland, Editor-in-Chief
Camara Wallace, Poetry Editor
Patrick Springer, Poetry Editor
Aspen Brown, Poetry Editor
Eric D. Saunders, Poetry Editor

 


POETRY


 

FEATURED POET

Hillary Woodall Franks

“Phoenix Butterfly”

Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

“The Man They’ve Shot Dead” & “The Goings Across the Other Ways”

 

Gonzalinho da Costa

“Sailing”

 

RW Franklin

“Not My Shirt” & “Lost Identity”

 

Katie Kemple

“Pandemic Skies”

 

Katherine Leavy

“what is the sound of survival”
“doing laundry at your parents’ house, millennial age 28”
“it was never going to work”

 

Leah Mueller

“Bisbee Storm at 5,500 Feet”

 

Ariba Pasha

“Search for a Lost Soul”

 

Liam Strong

“Giving Gender Dysphoria a Name Other Than––”
“elegy for dead end roads”

Wayne Benson

“I am a Black Poet”

 

Amy Fair

“Threshold”

 

Marina Greenfeld

“Taxidermy” & “Anthem”

 

Prakash Kona

“The Idea of Mankind”

 

Micah McGurk

“Organic”

 

Robert Okaji

“In That Pause”

 

CJ Strauss

“I Don’t Write Poetry Anymore”