Simeon Berry lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he serves on the Board of Directors for Salamander. He has been an associate editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National...
Joe Milazzo is the author of the chapbook The Terraces (Das Arquibancadas and Little Red Leaves Textile Series) and the novel Crepuscule W / Nellie (Jaded Ibis Productions). He co-edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing] and is also the...
I Don’t Know Do You Roberto Montes 2014 Ampersand Books 102 pages Review by CHRIS EMSLIE What Montes achieves in his debut collection of poems is the reverse of objectification. Rather than reducing the body of the beloved to a thing, a mere object of desire,...
I Wanted to Write About the Almost and the Once by Cindy Beebe upon a time my mother almost worked at the Park Avenue Funeral Home. Where she would’ve styled the hair of the newly deceased population there and even the brand new babies. Her duties would...
Imagine If Everyone You Ever Loved Never Stopped by Kallie Falandays Touching you. If you never stopped changing: You’re still in your bedroom: blue lamp-light, still teenage-hurt, no alarm clock. How do you get up in the morning after being held down by so...