Glenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California. Ingersoll’s prose poem epic, Thousand, is available from […]

Would you like some raisins, some cheese?
I delve into the pack
that’s been weighing me down,
pulling me back,
causing me grief,
but without which I would be without
raisins and without cheese.

The textbook explanation for this feat concerns the transformation of electricity to magnetism (and the reverse) and induced energy from one medium to another. But these accounts fail to explain what Agnes did next.

John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published […]

There is no love.
There’s black smoke.
There’s cigarette air
and there are automobiles breaking down
in the inclement weather.

Matt Surface’s literary work has appeared in New Reader Magazine and won 3rd place for the 2022 Olive […]

You hear him huffing his way to the house, cussing his key ring for falling from his hand. You feel his bumbling presence as he trudges through the door, letting a hint of winter wind into the hall before shutting it tight behind him. If it wasn’t for a very sudden and violent sneeze that came upon you, he likely wouldn’t have noticed you there, disheveled and defeated.

David R. Bowne is an Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, USA. […]

I remember hearing certain people thought flowers were obscene. That floral displays were essentially pornography, with uncovered carpel and stamen, reproductive organs for all to see, spread open, luring us in with vivid displays of botanical sexuality.

Alan Cohen was already a poet before he became a primary Care physician, teacher, and manager, and has […]