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Tomnahurich Poems: “The City of the Sleepers”, “Plaza of the Dead” and “‘Devoted Wife'”

Poetry Issue Five by David McVey

In this cemetery down the road from Inverness in Scotland, David McVey meditates on the dead in Tomnahurich poems: minor gentry, Indian Army subalterns, Anne MacKenzie, and others whose stories are untold, forgotten, lost.

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Bronx Poems: “Untitled 5”, “We are Loners (for my brother)” and “For Kalief”

Poetry Issue Five by Kay Bell

Kay Bell’s Bronx Poems wrestle with hurt and loneliness, anger and love as only poetry can do to reach the inner core of empathy and understanding. Her poem “We are Loners (for my brother)” touches at the heart of love.

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“Woe of Women”, “Farmhouse” and “A Semester at Chicago Arts College”

Poetry Issue Five by Shelby Curran

You know the voice of the poet is strong when you feel like you and she are in the same room; such is the case with Shelby Curran’s narrative poem “Farmhouse.”

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“Nana’s Tears”, “Birth of Shaman’s Dream” and “Ghost Voice”

Poetry Issue Five by Mary Leoson

Mary Leoson describes the relationship between the poet and her “Nana” in a pontoum, a poetic form in which content and form intertwine. See also “Shaman’s Dream,” a prose poem.

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“Elegy”, “How To Make It In Business” and “Child Saint”

Poetry Issue Five by Lynn Lipinski

When you read Lynn Lipinski’s poetry, you sense the command she brings to her poetry, especially in the poetic line. She does not miss an elegiac beat in “Elegy” to her father.

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“Entreaty”, “The Tangled Skein” and “On the Wings of the Wind”

Poetry Issue Five by Brandon Marlon

In Brandon Marlon’s poetry a “gnawing angst” permeates his poems about existence. There is not a poem richer than “On the Wings of the Wind” to explore these “depths unfathomed.”

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“Hitchhiking”, “Sailing the Ship” and “Blush”

Poetry Issue Five by Vern Fein

The poet blends narration and metaphor in a morality tale when the roads were supposedly safe but not for “Renee” who was raped by a driver in the woods. The Revolution didn’t happen and they “fled to the suburbs.”

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“Wonder Woman’s Journey: Parts I, II, and III”

Poetry Issue Five by Jacquelyn L.M. Scott

Jacquelyn L.M. Scott bears witness to a woman’s experience being treated for cancer. There is no place to hide from these poems.

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“January”, “The Only” and “Told Me”

Poetry Issue Five by Chelsey van der Munnik

Just when you catch the linear threads in Chelsey van der Munnik’s poems— “January, “The Only,” “Told Me”—they shift and pull you in and in.

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“The Stars and Icarus”, “Out of Order” and “An Official Removal of the Nicknames”

Poetry Issue Five by Takáts Márk

Takáts Márk retells the myth of Icarus in the poem “The Stars and Icarus,” with an ingenious twist that can’t help but make you laugh at the irony. And in the companion poem “Out of Order”? Oh, the hubris of the poet’s ego.

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“I Can’t Find My Brother”

Poetry Issue Five by Sarai Seekamp

The pathos in Sarai Seekamp’s trilogy of poems “I Can’t Find My Brother” is apparent on first reading, but read them over and over and you might find yourself weeping.

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“Swim in the Light”, “Walking Along” and “I Say”

Poetry Issue Five by Jordan Lindsey

Jordan Lindsey has a passion for poetic expression, which becomes clear as he blends form and content in one meaningful whole. See: “Swim in the Light.”

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“An Animal Resembling Desire”, “The Last Threshold” and “The roof”

Poetry Issue Five by Sergio A. Ortiz

Sergio A. Ortiz paints his poetry with recurring images of birds and old trees and abstractions like desperation and desire, or “The roof” to cure loneliness where the poet “loved a man while dancing.”

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“Road Rain”, “Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge” and “Scanning”

Poetry Issue Five by Elizabeth Elliott

In the poem “Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge” by Elizabeth Elliott, the driver depends on the cables that hold up the bridge suspended “like belief in a higher power,” but fear of the big earthquake lingers. What then?

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