A Review of The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems by Michael Hettich
I confess–I’ve known Michael Hettich for 50 years. We were housed in the same freshman dormitory at Hobart College. But it’s more...
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- Oct 27, 2023
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editor's notes
photo: John Cameron “If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.” -...
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table of contents
Editor's Notes headlines w/Stuart Kestenbaum Stuart Kestenbaum Craig Chen Jaime Speed Laura Schaeffer Cynthia Knorr Eva Rose Goetz Faith...
- Oct 16, 2023
Stephen Campiglio
Chelonia Station In a cramped, dingy foyer of a train station in the countryside, I’m seated opposite a mother and her child, with the...
- Oct 16, 2023
Sophia Ivey
Baby Teeth There is nothing left to burn so I put my finger tips in the flame. Like a fishhook ...
- Oct 16, 2023
Lisa Allen
After Terrance Hayes After Terrance Hayes reads sonnet after sonnet about his past and future assassin, I dream of ducks. The glory of...
- Oct 16, 2023
Cora McCann Liderbach
Walt Whitman, Ray Bradbury and Me After deep brain stimulation surgery for essential tremor I sing the body electric, for I am the...
- Oct 16, 2023
Steve Deutsch
Vellichor There was a time bookstores ran for blocks along 4th Avenue—the air outside seasoned with mildew and must. Nowadays, you need a...
- Oct 16, 2023
Lucy Walker
Poem I don’t know what sort of beauty to value anymore. Three sparrows on the lilac branches outside my window hop and spark the morning...
- Oct 16, 2023
Stephen Cramer
Thunderous The sound of a tree growing in fast forward— a hundred years in thirty seconds—is a brief recital of rasp & squeak & groan,...
- Oct 16, 2023
Patrick Swaney
Delivered I’m traveling and need to travel lighter so I ship a package across the country to myself. I fill out my name twice. Neatly...
- Oct 16, 2023
Polly Brown
Shadow Late afternoon, sun dropping west, the barn’s shadow shifted on green and brown grass—this was August—to a perfect, rectangular...
- Oct 16, 2023
Melissa Holm Shoemake
Miscarriage Story Told with Quotes from the Movie “Mean Girls” (2004) 1. “Is butter a carb?” On our girls’ trip, we check a suitcase of...
- Oct 16, 2023
Brendan Stephens
Watching TV with a Busted Antenna It’s a lot like when a therapist wearing a peacock- colored shawl, dark azure and sparkling green,...
- Oct 16, 2023
Maureen Sherbondy
The Teens The teens are stuck with I inscribed on their tongues. They believe they woke as queens and kings. Sometimes they assume mother...
- Oct 16, 2023
Sierra Page
To the fist at the bottom of every bottle Here’s to the fist at the bottom of every bottle. Every bottle smashed on the side of a...
- Oct 16, 2023
Steve Langan
Good Morning America I am so sorry I nearly left the mind for the body, for the spirit; forgive me. Most days I am really very happy, I...
- Oct 16, 2023
Sally Cobau
Yellowstone At breakfast, in the Three Bears Restaurant in West Yellowstone, while eating a huge cinnamon roll, I overhear the man in the...
- Oct 16, 2023
Marg Walker
There Are Days this cage without bars this rut you are wearing into sidewalks how you can’t buy passage anywhere and haven’t packed...
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