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Darren C. Demaree: January 2016 Poet of the Month

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Darren C. Demaree: January 2016 Poet of the Month
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Stefan Guido-Maria Krikl

EMILY AS BLOOD ALL OVER THE PLACE

I didn’t pay attention
& I didn’t care
about the silence.

We were moving
just fine
& each tiny clump

of skin we lost
was lost only
because we stared

only at the whole
throbbing.
There was so much

byproduct
& some of that
real blood

was too weak
to work through
the sheets anyway.

When I slid my hand
flush to the fabric, it,
again, left us like waves.

Darren C. Demaree is the author of "As We Refer To Our Bodies" (2013, 8th House), "Temporary Champions" (2014, Main Street Rag), "The Pony Governor" (2015, After the Pause Press), and "Not For Art Nor Prayer" (2015, 8th House).  He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.

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Alexandra Smyth: July 2016 Poet of the Month

Alexandra Smyth lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of the City College of New York MFA Creative Writing Program. She was a finalist for the 2015 Cobalt Review Gabriela Mistral Poetry Prize and a recipient of the 2014 Poets and Writers Amy Award. Her work has appeared in Cobalt Review, Gravel, and TAB, among others. 

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Alexandra Smyth: July 2016 Poet of the Month
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Darren C. Demaree: America Chose to Drown

Darren C. Demaree is the author of "As We Refer To Our Bodies" (2013, 8th House), "Temporary Champions" (2014, Main Street Rag), "The Pony Governor" (2015, After the Pause Press), and "Not For Art Nor Prayer" (2015, 8th House).  He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.

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Darren C. Demaree: America Chose to Drown
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Christina M. Rau: February 2016 Poet of the Month

Christina M. Rau is the author of the poetry chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit on Long Island, NY, her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, most recently in the journals The Main Street Rag and Parenthetical. In her non-writing life, she practices yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. Find her links on http://alifeofwe.blogspot.com

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Christina M. Rau: February 2016 Poet of the Month