Jeff Mock is the author of Ruthless.  His poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The […]

Scott T. Hutchison is the author of two books of poetry, Reining In (Black Bird Press) and Moonshine […]

Smitha Vishwanath’s poems have been published in the Thieving Magpie, Rattle, Spillwords Press, MasticadoresUSA, Silverbirch Press, Borderless Journal, […]

Lenny Levine enjoyed a successful 20-year career as a recording studio singer and composer of jingles for McDonald’s, […]

Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances […]

Abhishek Udaykumar is a writer, filmmaker and painter. He graduated from Royal Holloway University of London with English and […]

Nicholas Viglietti is a writer from Sacramento, CA. He started writing in high school for the school newspaper. […]

Peter Mladinic’s most recent book of poems, House Sitting, is available from the Anxiety Press.  An animal rights […]

You totally get why the bees and bugs are drawn in too, so you don’t mind them so much.  We’re all taking chances.

The sun, unrelenting now, hammers my head. Blooming white and lilac azalea flowers spill from ceramic pots that line the famous Spanish Steps. Rows of people, most sitting, their faces to the sun. The winter coat weighs on my shoulders, high heeled boots bite my toes. Greasy sweat between my breasts.