Special FeatureJoanna ValenteBenjamin Niespodziany, poetry, special feature

Benjamin Niespodziany: We Pray to Space

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteBenjamin Niespodziany, poetry, special feature
Benjamin Niespodziany: We Pray to Space
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Tabernacle

 

 

                        Don't closet spotless lamb with unplanned habits.

                        Cabinet with the headdress, the rest with the coif.

 

                        Clergy burn toys in the museum of stitched hope. The antipope

                        stoic, a gold mantlepiece by candlelight. The monk's underveil.

 

                        We pray to space. We fail. We jail so long. Either way,

                        the cave is made a chapel by dawn.

Benjamin Niespodziany is a night librarian at the University of Chicago. He runs the multimedia art blog [neonpajamas] and has had his work published in HOOT review, Cheap Pop, Pithead Chapel, Occulum, and various others.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMax Lemuz, poetry, special feature

Max Lemuz: No Answer

Max Lemuz is a Mexican-American who recently graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a B.A. in English.  He tutors foster youth full-time and writes poetry in his head all the time.  He spends his weekends with his amazing wife and daughter in San Bernardino.  He has been recently published in SoFloPoJo, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Triggerfish Critical Review.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMax Lemuz, poetry, special feature
Max Lemuz: No Answer
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDavid Joez Villaverde, poetry, special feature

David Joez Villaverde: Rituals to Lesser Gods

David Joez Villaverde has forthcoming or recently published work in Crab Fat Magazine, Occulum, Wigleaf, 100 Word Short Story, Adbusters, After the Pause, Cheap Pop, and Hoot. He is former editor of the After Happy Hour Review. He can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com or @academicjuggalo on the Twitter.

 

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDavid Joez Villaverde, poetry, special feature
David Joez Villaverde: Rituals to Lesser Gods
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDavid Hanlon, poetry, special feature

David Hanlon: As Fickle as an Orange Is Orange

David Hanlon is from Cardiff, Wales, and currently living in Bristol, England. He has a BA in Film Studies & is training part-time as a counsellor/therapist. You can find his work online in or forthcoming with Calamus Journal, Occulum, Riggwelter Press, Dirty Paws Poetry Review, Into The Void, Impossible Archetype & The Rising Phoenix Review, among others.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDavid Hanlon, poetry, special feature
David Hanlon: As Fickle as an Orange Is Orange
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteRaina K. Puels, poetry, special feature

Raina K. Puels: Emotional Layover

Raina K. Puels is the Nonfiction Editor of Redivider. She leaves a trail of glitter, cat hair, and small purple objects everywhere she goes. Her work is published or forthcoming in The Rumpus, PANK, Essay Daily, The American Literary Review, Berfrois, Queen Mob's, Maudlin House, Occulum, bad pony, and many other places. See her full list of pubs: rainakpuels.com Tweet her: @rainakpuels    


Special FeatureJoanna ValenteRaina K. Puels, poetry, special feature
Raina K. Puels: Emotional Layover