Tisha Turk After months of grappling with life-threatening illness, Tisha Turk emerged into a new/old life. The understated, resonant poems of “Getting […]

Roger Pfingston On a solitary, early morning visit to his vegetable garden, a man unexpectedly, “…began to weep for no reason [he] […]

Timothy Walsh “That is the way of apples, always reverting/to wilder strains, no two entirely alike,/since apples are, like us, not true […]

Sharon F. McDermott Like alleys themselves, Sharon McDermott’s poems are tough, gritty and sometimes violent. They are also lively, daring, on edge, […]

Diane Kerr Diane Kerr is a retired child and family therapist who also holds a M.F.A. from The Warren Wilson program for […]

Corey Mesler Corey Mesler has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Pindeldyboz, Orchid, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore, and […]

F. J. Bergmann F.J. Bergmann is mostly from Wisconsin. She claims to have an MFA from the School of the Americas. She […]

 R. Virgil Ellis R. Virgil (Ron) Ellis retired from university teaching in 1997 and has since devoted his time to writing, editing, […]

John Lehman Midwest native John Lehman recollects and explores his life encounters in Acting Lessons, the newest chapbook in the Parallel Press […]

Austin Smith Austin Smith was born in 1982 and grew up on a family dairy farm north of Freeport, Illinois. He still […]

Thomas R. Smith In his recent review of Thomas R. Smith’s chapbook Kinnickinnic for Verse Wisconsin, B.J. Best writes that Smith “imbues […]

Lisa Marie Brodsky Driven by the twin muses of confessional poetry and theatre from a young age, Lisa Marie Brodsky grew up […]

Going Wrong Marilyn L. Taylor’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Scholar, Measure, and many other journals and anthologies. Her work […]

John Pidgeon John Pidgeon uses the classic style of a sonnet to “address the darker side of life’s experiences—death, war, loneliness [and] […]

Tracy Youngblom The poems of Tracy Youngblom juxtapose the experiences of “earthly existence” with that of the possibility of eternity. She “maneuvers […]