We’re jazzed to be sharing Daniel Hales‘ poem “How to Make the Light Come” from out latest issue. It is (seasonally) inappropriate and we like it that way.
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This poem appeared in SC 5.1, which you can read in print and download, and of course subscribers give us happy-squeaky feels and first crack at all our juicy words, so get at us. Read on!
June, we say June, darling Reader, and it’s nice to pack the ice cream stand and the park with our most pro forma clothes and our sheens of exquisition. Or are we air conditioning types? (Do tell.) Today we’re delighted to share two poems by Alan Jernigan: “Sadness Morphs into Luck” and “Kind of Saved Again.”
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These poems originally appeared in SC 5.1. Print issue here, ebook edition here, and as alwayas, the subscribers are a special club. Want to share? Submit. And: read on!
Today’s reading comes to us from the star powers of Danielle Susi, “Back Door to the Seventh House“:
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This poem originally appeared in SC 5.1. Get it in print or download the ebook, and, O Brightest Reader, you should subscribe. Read on!
We joyfully announce: Storm Cellar author Sea Sharp‘s “The Tallgrass Shuffles” (SC 4.2) has been selected for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XLI (2017)! Our gratitude to the editors of the collection and Bill Henderson, the publisher. Our greatest gratitude to Sea for choosing to share their work with us all.
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The month of drawing-the-knife is well half over, yeah? Oh Reader, we want to tell you about this Spring we’ve kindled. (Soon.) Today’s vernal equinox gift is Douglas Luman‘s brillo “A Brief History of Arson“:
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This poem first appeared in SC 4.2. Get hotted up with us — subscribe — buy print — download — read on!
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