A Forever Drifting Red Balloon Review by Rachel L. Slotnick Matthew Cooperman, “Spool” Parlor Press 2016, 120 pages, softcover, $14 Matthew Cooperman writes poetry that simultaneously engages and disengages. His new collection, titled “Spool,” appropriately features an…
Reviews: Mega-City Redux
Escape from a World Which Brings Harm A Review by Brian Burmeister Alyse Knorr, “Mega-City Redux” Green Mountains Review 2016, 62 pages, softcover, $15.00 We all want understanding. Compassion. Safety. We want an escape from beliefs and…
“The Graffiti of Pompeii” – An Interview with Laura Sobbott Ross
Laura Sobbott Ross has been writing poetry since she was a teenager. Her writing has appeared in The Florida Review, Meridian, and many others. She was a finalist for the 2016 Newfound Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, as well as a finalist for the Pushcart Prize and the Arts & Letters Poetry Prize in 2016.
Reviews: It’s Best Not To Interrupt Her Experiments
A Noun That Can Change the World a review by Rachel Slotnick Carlo Matos, “It’s Best Not To Interrupt Her Experiments” Negative Capability Press 2016, 64 pages, paperback, $12.95 As I read Carlo Matos’ new collection of…
Poetry: Kara Candito
To Save One Animal from Sickness, It Is Necessary to Sacrifice Another Kara Candito I know a woman who loved her husband’s flight so much that she strapped a condor to her back. Naked in the quemadero she…
Flash: David Mohan
Walking in the City at Noon David Mohan Tom Sojourn, the Navajo, liked walking in the city at noon. Sometimes Thrift Store Juliet, with her hair messed up in a grey straggle, would tag along. She got her…
Interviews: Bonnie Jo Campbell
Mothers, Daughters, Lovers, Misfits: An Interview with Bonnie Jo Campbell by Karin Cecile Davidson Bonnie Jo Campbell knows her way into the art of rural noir, her literary gaze on the landscape of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula spare with…
‘Simbelmynë’ – An Interview with Anna King
Anna King is a PhD student at Georgia State University, 
a mother of two, and a small-business owner (she runs a soy candle business with her husband Chad). Her other passions include fitness, preferably Cross-fit at her local gym in McDonough, Georgia. King’s works have been published in literary magazines as well as academically in the “Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers.” King was offered a fellowship by the Summer Literary Seminars and she has been nominated for a Pushcart. King’s chapbook “Simbelmynë” is a finalist for the 2015 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize.
Fiction: Khanh Ha
Mara’s Daughter by Khanh Ha The evening’s drinks began to turn my head into a block of hardening cement. I ordered black coffee. The first time in a night club with them, Faye―Uncle Vinh’s wife―sat between Uncle and me.…
Nonfiction: Royal Young
Fame Shark Royal Young I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad’s creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part…
Poetry Prize
The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize Open: Closed—share your writing with us next year! Deadline: TBA Guest Judge: TBA Award: First place is publication, $1,500 prize, 25 contributor copies, and royalties contract. Three finalists will be announced. Reading Fee: $15 Enter:…
Poetry: Mesler
Memphis Mojo Corey Mesler It’s the river roiling in the dusk, a rainbow of silt and silver, the bridge a double seadog, misty M, the road to the capital of Soul. Ghosts whisper around street corners, Monk Cassava still…