Special FeatureJoanna Valentehowie good, special feature, poetry

Howie Good: Nothing Great About Being Dead

Special FeatureJoanna Valentehowie good, special feature, poetry
Howie Good: Nothing Great About Being Dead

ANOTHER PIECE OF USELESS ADVICE 

The same rain falling on us 
with dreary sincerity 
fell on the Great Dead, so-called 
despite there being nothing 
great about being dead. 
Write every day, I was taught. 
Better yet, the rain said, 
trigger various car alarms, 
and whatever the point of two 
or more exclamation points in a row is, 
browse the pawnshops 
and the green spray of hills, 
forgetting, if you can, the children 
at the gates of the orphanage. 

Editor’s note: This poem appeared in a previous issue.

Howie Good is the author of Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize. His latest book is A Ghost Sings, a Door Opensfrom Another New Calligraphy. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDaniela Olszewska, special feature, poetry, photography

Daniela Olszewska: Sleeping Machine

Daniela Olszewska is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), True Confessions of An Escapee From The Capra Facility For Wayward Girls (Spittoon Press, 2013), and Citizen J (Artifice Books, 2013). With Carol Guess, she is the co-author of  How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and Human-Ghost Hybrid Project(Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming).  Her website is: http://www.danielaolszewska.com

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDaniela Olszewska, special feature, poetry, photography
Daniela Olszewska: Sleeping Machine
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteCatherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry

Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything

Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of the chapbooks Maria Sings (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press).  Recent poems have appeared in Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, MiPOesias, and elsewhere.  A graduate of NYU’s MFA program in Creative Writing-Poetry, Catherine is cofounder and curator of the SWWIM reading series.  She lives in Miami Beach with her husband, two sons, and daughter.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteCatherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry
Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJames Croal Jackson, special feature, poetry

James Croal Jackson: Meanwhile, in Real Life

James Croal Jackson is the author of The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FLAPPERHOUSE, Rust + Moth, The Bitter Oleander, and elsewhere. He edits The Mantle and is a former winner of the William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest. Find him in Columbus, Ohio or at jimjakk.com.
 

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJames Croal Jackson, special feature, poetry
James Croal Jackson: Meanwhile, in Real Life