John A. Nieves
John A. Nieves Ligatures We knew the mossy side of the trees would guide us to the cabin, up the long forking path, switching back hard enough to turn any [...]
Randy Shelley
Randy Shelley Migrations It was cold, early morning, and my father and I’d been out hunting duck. There was a little wind, just enough to raise the fog off the [...]
Sarah Curtis Graziano
Sarah Curtis Graziano The Shadow of a Song When the reporter started calling, I was scrubbing potatoes and gazing out at the long slats of indigo the maples had cast [...]
Kathryn Waring
Kathryn Waring [...]
Bruce Ducker
Bruce Ducker Koi “It’s possible,” he said. It’s not impossible.” The property manager rested an elbow on an arm, rubbed the bridge of his nose. “All the cost will be [...]
Susan Kleinman
Susan Kleinman Help Us See Your Face Chesed shel emet they call it – the truest loving-kindness, preparing a body for burial. Truest, because it is done at inconvenient times, [...]
Ari Moskowitz
Ari Moskowitz My Father Left Me a Dying Town We lived in a dying town in coal country Pennsylvania. Most of our restaurants had closed, Eddie’s corner store had [...]
Alain Douglas Park
Alain Douglas Park I Don't Want Anything to Happen; I Want Something to Happen Wednesday night, already dark, I fully intended to ask my lovely teenage daughter something quick [...]
Adam Roux
Adam Roux On the Beach Near the Hospital del Mar Martin at the beach, but not alone. Annalise is there too, on her towel beside him, in sunglasses and a [...]
Jonathan Johnson
Jonathan Johnson’s fourth book, May Is an Island (poems), will by published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in Fall 2018. His poetry has been published widely in magazines, anthologized in Best American [...]
Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones is a poet and freelance writer living in Seattle. She is a Poetry Northwest staff member, and was an editorial intern with C&R Press. Before interning with C&R Press, Sarah was an assistant poetry [...]
Deborah Keenan
Deborah Keenan Two Stones Pick up one stone. You can carry it. You can carry it a long way. Pick up the second stone. You can carry it. These are [...]