Cormorant Flight | Victoria Punch
"I go down, down / black as a bracket against the sky / lowered in increments / down, down to the level below / wing-rail smooth, feather bent / under the eye of the clock..."
Sound Poems: Boys and Girls | Janis Butler Holm
"That girlish lethal weaponry will expurgate this duffle coat. / That girlish intake manifold will clamor for this turnip bed..." New sound poems by Janis Butler Holm.
Conquest, as Seen by the City | Ashley Deng
"you call to me and demand / I let you enter, / past these walls and into my / streets, / words snarled out in a language / whose vocabulary is littered with remnants of / conquest..."
Selected Poems | Cameron Morse
Cameron Morse is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of eight collections of poetry. His latest is The Thing Is (Briar Creek Press, 2021).
Atween the Wind an the Wa | John Aberdein
"Cranreuch cauld wis the tarmac bauld, / The gled i the laverock's sheddie; / Ah masel for the haar-tooteroo / Wis tuckt up in ma beddie..." John Aberdein's novels have won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Fiction of the Year Award.
Selected Poems | Christine Tierney
"i found out on the day i was thick-wet-heat / i found out on the day i tussled through the weeks and morphed into sunflower..." Christine's poetry has been published in Fourteen Hills, Poet Lore, Permafrost, and elsewhere.