Katie Kenney is a recent graduate of University of Denver’s Publishing Institute and received her MFA in Creative Writing ...

“It has published on a range of topics that perhaps seemed controversial to someone at some time (specifically, academics in the early 2020s) but certainly not to the broader culture in 2025.” “Over ...

As the passing pumpkin moon. Like a dream so phenomenal, like a diamond glows. Melancholic sense grows. Sarah Samarbaf is a poet with a background in performing arts.

“Yet these walls sound with echoes of the past,/With whispered prayers which linger in the air/And animate this space – still holding fast:/A shelter from the passing world’s despair.” A shelter from ...

Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such ...

I. blows its whistle below the lumberyard. since a big company bought its name. dryer crease, crossing limbs. II. asks homes ...

“But embers don’t care who goes or stays. They fire up blueberries/and coyote brush, traumatizing elk/deer/hawks/hares again.” Carolyn Martin’s poems have appeared in more than 200 publications ...

“No one assigns homework./No one expects anyone to do anything./Disappoint, like ill-fitting pants,/can chafe you to death.” Tension begins in the parking lot.

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...