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Web Weekly Feature, January 30th, 2012:  "Self Portrait as a Moving Van on Fire" by Al Maginnes "Boys in small towns love fire, and these boys know..."
from Boxcar Poetry Review

Web Weekly Feature, January 23rd, 2012:  "The Last Bestiary" by Daniel Bourne "When all animals have died..."
from Guernica

Web Weekly Feature, January 16th, 2012:  "Poem Noire" by Joshua Gray "The depth of her absense..."
from Referential Magazine

Web Weekly Feature, January 9th, 2012:  "Digging In" by Donna Vorreyer "Cherry blossoms are over; there are no bears or cats or dogs among the roses...."
from Linebreak

Web Weekly Feature, January 2nd, 2012:  "Our Hair Will Not Be Televised" by George McKim "...our open hair..."
from DIAGRAM

Web Weekly Feature, December 26th, 2011:  "Biomechanics" by José Luis Gutiérrez "The machinery was there before we even knew it existed...."
from DMQ Review

Web Weekly Feature, December 19th, 2011:  "V." by Joseph P. Wood "Better?—Remission?—what’s a name but a crater..."
from Transom

Web Weekly Feature, December 12th, 2011:  "The Great Unrest" by D.A. Powell "When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’..."
from OccupyWriters.com

Web Weekly Feature, December 5th, 2011:  "Self-Portrait as Housewife" by Austen Rosenfeld "Your dreams hold your days together...."
from AGNI

Web Weekly Feature, November 28th, 2011:  Two poems by C. J. Sage "It did not flurry at the beach and that’s okay..."
from Pirene's Fountain

Web Weekly Feature, November 21st, 2011:  "Stop and Listen" by Robert Wrigley "Sometimes the woods at night are so still..."
from Memorious

Web Weekly Feature, November 14th, 2011:  "On Learning That All The Gold In The World Would Fill Just Two Olympic Swimming Pools" by Derek Mong "my inner pragmatist insists: we can’t fling Phelps’s medals..."
from 99 Poems for the 99 Percent

Web Weekly Feature, November 7th, 2011:  "Sentry" by Brendan Galvin "Thistle, you look like another..."
from Shenandoah

Web Weekly Feature, October 31st, 2011:  "thine own self be goo" by Sara Larsen "thine own self be goo. badwater radically shifts in it, talisman..."
from wheelhouse magazine

Web Weekly Feature, October 24th, 2011:  "Passaggio - Presto: Two Leaves of Bread, Please" by Mary Molinary "It would be nice to live..."
from H_NGM_N

Web Weekly Feature, October 17th, 2011:  "asheville" by Avram Kline "wha, sam davidson?..."
from Jellyfish Magazine

Web Weekly Feature, October 10th, 2011:  "Constellations" by Susan Elbe "All that twinkling above us conceals and cants..."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Weekly Feature, October 3rd, 2011:  "Gift" by Jennifer Wong "First it is a measling of the tablecloth..."
from UCity Review

Web Weekly Feature, September 26th, 2011:  "Silviculture" by Cecily Parks "Muck spectacular!..."
from Memorious

Web Weekly Feature, September 19th, 2011:  "How to Operate on Yourself" by Summer Callahan "Take the points of whatever you..."
from The Adirondack Review

Web Weekly Feature, September 12th, 2011:  "Elegy" by Elisa Karbin "Your mouth is an empty bowl, tipped up..."
from Lily

Web Weekly Feature, September 5th, 2011:  "St Saint" by Lisa Russ Spaar "Even my dreams won’t reveal you..."
from Cerise Press

Web Weekly Feature, August 29nd, 2011:  "Lipsyncing the City" by Jim Daniels "Even God doesn't have a script...."
from DIAGRAM

Web Weekly Feature, August 22nd, 2011:  "Cartography of Loss" by Chris Lynch "The smaller the island..."
from Islet

Web Weekly Feature, August 15th, 2011:  "The Man With a Shirt of Fire" by Charles Rafferty "It wakes him up — the glow of his shirt..."
from Linebreak

Web Weekly Feature, August 8st, 2011:  Two poems by K R Copeland "Hardy garden cultivar, far from your Chinese roots, how I root for you to do your..."
from Soundzine

Web Weekly Feature, August 1st, 2011:  "Anatomy" by Katherine DeBlassie "Insect. Crow. Innocuous noise-maker...."
from Otis Nebula

Web Weekly Feature, July 25th, 2011:  "Sheetrock" by Sophie Cabot Black "As if almost too late we ripped into each other..."
from Slate

Web Weekly Feature, July 18th, 2011:  "Fox" by Andrea Henchey "The yip of a red fox pup kept me up..."
from Muzzle

Web Weekly Feature, July 11th, 2011:  "Modern Fears" by Deanna Larsen "The man smiling at me at the gas station is thinking of ways..."
from amphibi.us

Web Weekly Feature, July 4th, 2011:  "Pascal’s Sunrisen" by Derek Henderson "Identified by a body...."
from Konundrum Engine Literary Review

Web Weekly Feature, June 27th, 2011:  "The Girl Offers up Her Resignation" by Nickole Brown "Like the throat of a deer arched back..."
from Memorious

Web Weekly Feature, June 20th, 2011:  "Infinity Why Not" by Eric Amling "Fairly agog as if party snakes..."
from So and So

Web Weekly Feature, June 13th, 2011:  "Sparrow-sized, The Grave" by C. J. Opperthauser "is three inches deep. Her fingernails..."
from decomP

Web Weekly Feature, June 6th, 2011:  "Black Guitar" by Michelle Bitting "To pick that glint-edged glamour..."
from Linebreak

Web Weekly Feature, May 30th, 2011:  "Stick & Stone" by Christine Fadden "Sigh. Alone to gather signs. Sticks the orbiting body has bound with twine and found..."
from Precipitate

Web Weekly Feature, May 23rd, 2011:  "A Poet of Medieval Spain " by Jennifer Barber "The caliph gone. The moon..."
from Cerise Press

Web Weekly Feature, May 16th, 2011:  "The Woman Who Never Came Before" by James Valvis "She came and you touched her..."
from BLIP

Web Weekly Feature, May 9th, 2011:  "Outages" by Nathan McClain "The world has been sad since Tuesday..."
from DIAGRAM

Web Weekly Feature, May 2nd, 2011:  "The Painted Lady and the Thistle " by Julie L. Moore "The painted lady alights on thistle..."
from Pirene's Fountain

Web Weekly Feature, April 25th, 2011:  "A Genesis" by Mary Biddinger "I caught you gleaming. But you..."
from Waccamaw

Web Weekly Feature, April 18th, 2011:  "What I know of You" by Sheila Black "Bus stations in the dead hours..."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Weekly Feature, April 11th, 2011:  "meditation" by Alison Doernberg "Let the fog inhabit you, a cradle of fluid strands entwined..."
from Praxilla

Web Weekly Feature, April 4th, 2011:  "What does the grave say?" by Jennifer Borges Foster "What does the cave save? Small bones to make its teeth...."
from failbetter.com

Web Weekly Feature, March 28th, 2011:  "New Age" by J. P. Dancing Bear "As surely as architects fall in love..."
from Linebreak

Web Weekly Feature, March 21th, 2011:  "A Lawnmower’s One of the Babies I’d Have" by Hannah Craig "In the high weeds, I’d bite. Snap the little sticks..."
from Contrary

Web Weekly Feature, March 14th, 2011:  "Signs" by Chris Forhan "Spin like this, the pinwheel, aflame in air..."
from Cerise Press

Web Weekly Feature, March 7th, 2011:  "Stillwater" by Lightsey Darst "Then we walked down to the river and noticed the bridge..."
from DIAGRAM

Web Weekly Feature, February 28th, 2011:  "Anatomy" by Katherine DeBlassie "Insect. Crow. Innocuous noise-maker...."
from otis nebula

Web Weekly Feature, February 21st, 2011:  "The Shape of Birds" by Mary Christine Delea "It’s as if they are made of snow, formless..."
from Stickman Review

Web Weekly Feature, February 14th, 2011:  "One Marriage, Three Airports or One Airport, Three Marriages" by Sherman Alexie "The man in front of me has missed his flight..."
from Unsplendid

Web Weekly Feature, February 7th, 2011:  "Don’t Buck Love" by Scott Withiam "Here comes the finch out of the mine...."
from Linebreak

Web Weekly Feature, January 31st, 2011:  "If Reflection, II" by Jennifer Denrow "There is a man...."
from Sixth Finch

Web Weekly Feature, January 24th, 2011:  "Desire" by Molly Gaudry "Listen. Boys be trained like go wait stay shop. They purse and cuss on cue, like..."
from Vinyl Poetry

Web Weekly Feature, January 17th, 2011:  "Some Invisible" by Leslie Adams "A week or so of martins splicing..."
from DMQ Review

Web Weekly Feature, January 10th, 2011:  "Real Estate" by Steven Brown "We moved the mobile home onto a lot..."
from Unsplendid

Web Weekly Feature, January 3rd, 2011:  "The Bird Kingdom" by MRB Chelko "Bright, beautiful, warm, and free, your body..."
from DIAGRAM

Web Weekly Feature, December 27th, 2010:  "The Towers of Cordoba" by Andrew H. Oerke "We trotted the route to Cordoba as well..."
from Pirene's Fountain

Web Weekly Feature, December 20th, 2010:  "Unreality" by Elizabeth Langemak "For us, long distance, the plane lifts..."
from Referential Magazine

Web Weekly Feature, December 13th, 2010:  "We Know in 2010, We Survive" by Claire Becker "The three kings visiting the baby...."
from Octopus Magazine

Web Weekly Feature, December 6th, 2010:  "Even Disasters" by Yona Harvey "Even disasters / wear white & ..."
from No Tell Motel

Web Weekly Feature, November 29th, 2010:  "Duck Duck Goose" by Feng Sun Chen "I purchase a book on violence. The guns in the glossy pages line up..."
from DIAGRAM

Web Weekly Feature, November 22nd, 2010:  "The Order" by David Daniel "Ages ago, in hospitals. Now too. And later...."
from Memorious

Web Weekly Feature, November 15th, 2010:  "The Decline of Western Civilization" by Brennen Wysong "I was beginning to fall in love with a dashing..."
from Typo

Web Weekly Feature, November 8th, 2010:  "Not Berdache. Not Gynandromorph. Not Even Two Spirit." by Matthew Hittinger "Tonight I will wrap..."
from Clementine

Web Weekly Feature, November 1st, 2010:  "The Day of Qu Yuan Drowning" by Ye Chun "They’re dotting eyes on the dragon boats...."
from Cerise Press

Web Weekly Feature, October 25th, 2010:  "Stone City" by J.P. Dancing Bear "You can hear the city open..."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Weekly Feature, October 18th, 2010:  "Superficial" by Timothy Wojcik "The bottoms of my teeth all opened up..."
from Jellyfish Magazine

Web Weekly Feature, October 11th, 2010:  "Instrument" by Clay Matthews "The dog pulls at the wing of a dead sparrow..."
from diode

Web Weekly Feature, October 4th, 2010:  "Red admirals and small tortoiseshells" by Susan Grindley "It’s still a mystery how they got in..."
from Magma Poetry

Web Weekly Feature, September 27th, 2010:  "First Love" by Donald Revell "Also naked, misery gleams and is soon gone...."
from Fawlt Magazine

Web Weekly Feature, September 20th, 2010:  "Cassandra's Ghazal" by Sharanya Manivannan "In the first hour of another life, I named you god and took to singing the glory of you...."
from Clementine

Web Weekly Feature, September 13th, 2010:  "The Ways They Let Themselves Be Fooled" by Jessica Newman "It was night and mosquitoes...."
from kill author

Web Weekly Feature, September 6th, 2010:  "The Guide" by John Allman "And if he spoke from within a quivering flame, his voice a whisper..."
from FutureCycle Poetry

Web Weekly Feature, August 30th, 2010:  "Ghazal of the Sharp Knife" by Sarah J. Sloat "Undeceived, the body knows the gloom of him...."
from DMQ Review

Web Weekly Feature, August 23rd, 2010:  "Knife" by Franz Wright "Holding a knife, or imagining it holds a knife, my blood goes..."
from Caffeine Destiny

Web Weekly Feature, August 16th, 2010:  "Unburdening three pelts into the grease fire" by Karyna McGlynn "I pursue the hem of what it means to consume..."
from Rougarou

Web Weekly Feature, August 8st, 2010:  "Milk" by T.R. Hummer "It was a temple of the dark sublime with high-speed elevators..."
from Slate

Web Weekly Feature, August 2st, 2010:  "The Way of the Dodo" by J. Braxton Cooper "A reputation that endures ..."
from Babel Fruit

Web Weekly Feature, July 26th, 2010:  "Monster" by Christopher Todd Matthews "Lovers of God..."
from Swink

Web Weekly Feature, July 19th, 2010:  "A Line from Jimi Hendrix Comes to Mind" by Jessica Greenbaum "in the giraffe house as another one sails..."
from Cerise Press

Web Weekly Feature, July 12th, 2010:  "Bad Honey" by Karina Borowicz "It’s not painful anymore to listen..."
from anderbo.com

Web Weekly Feature, July 5th, 2010:  "[Lantern]" by Lightsey Darst "Not here either -- followed the fireflies...."
from elimae

Web Weekly Feature, June 28th, 2010:  "Living in Weather" by Bin Ramke "It is an economy unfolding..."
from Octopus Magazine

Web Weekly Feature, June 21st, 2010:  "Our Insides and Our Insides" by P Edward Cunningham "Inside we have cramping plumes of bone glaze. Inside we have dazzle and soft whisper devices...."
from H_NGM_N

Web Monthly Feature, June, 2010:  "I Love You Like a Good Game of Skee-Ball" by Eileen G'Sell "First of all, I never said that...."
from Ink Node

Web Monthly Feature, May, 2010:  "Advice from the Robot Scientist’s Daughter" by Jeannine Hall Gailey "After all, the moon has fallen asleep and you are alone...."
from qarrtsiluni

Web Monthly Feature, April, 2010:  "De guerre en guerre / From War to War" by Tahar Bekri, translated by Marilyn Hacker "The sea doesn’t know where all this water comes from..."
from Cerise Press

Web Monthly Feature, March, 2010:  "Chemotherapy" by Meghan O’Rourke "The decomposing squirrel in the yard..."
from Guernica

Web Monthly Feature, February, 2010:  "After Phosphorescence" by Nellie Bellows & Kevin McLellan "A smack of jellyfish gelatinizes..."
from 42opus

Web Monthly Feature, January, 2010:  "The Corset" by Joanna Grant "I am the one who knows..."
from Guernica Magazine

Web Monthly Feature, December, 2009:  "This morning found" by Kimberly L. Becker "a clutch of feathers, ashen..."
from Pirenes Fountain

Web Monthly Feature, November, 2009:  "Aubade" by Cathy Park Hong "I long for harmine morn to lift me ..."
from Octopus Magazine

Web Monthly Feature, October, 2009:  "Nice Pig" by Nin Andrews "In first grade Mrs. Wilson taught us..."
from Scapegoat Review

Web Monthly Feature, September, 2009:  "At Broad Channel" by Ryan Black "The dry reeds, deep left field, bend basin-ward in the constant hymn..."
from AGNI

Web Monthly Feature, August, 2009:  "Purgatory" by Elizabeth Onusko "Now I understand why. Someone turns loose the winds on me..."
from 42opus

Web Monthly Feature, July, 2009:  "Alternate Worlds" by Patricia Fargnoli "They are what fuels the dark, what lies..."
from Cerise Press

Web Monthly Feature, June, 2009:  "Our Lady of Perpetual Help" by April Lindner "The burnt church up the street yawns to the sky..."
from Able Muse

Web Monthly Feature, May, 2009:  "Rural Spring Poem" by Nicky Beer "A thrasher in the linden..."
from Waccamaw

Web Monthly Feature, April, 2009:  "33 Translations of One Basho" by Chad Sweeney "ancient pond..."
from Coconut

Web Monthly Feature, March, 2009:  "Dumb Show" by Suzanne Wise "The spine does its turtle charade..."
from Guernica

Web Monthly Feature, February, 2009:  "Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat" by Sarah J. Sloat "My homesickness outlasts Hades' blazes..."
from The Dirty Napkin

Web Monthly Feature, January, 2009:  "Dear God," by Kevin Prufer "The trees on the lawn were drinking my air..."
from Memorious

Web Monthly Feature, December, 2008:  "Cat Posing for a Portrait of a Dog, Hollywood, California" by Elizabeth Gold "My agent’s not returning phone calls..."
from Guernica

Web Monthly Feature, November, 2008:  "If You See the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him" by Barbara Yien "Brush strokes stingy as Mao’s schematic..."
from Emprise Review

Web Monthly Feature, October, 2008:  "There’s More to Whaling Than Whales" by Anthony Caleshu "We’d been wooing whales like women once wooed us..."
from ANGI online

Web Monthly Feature, September, 2008:  "Self-Portrait with Cockroach" by Keetje Kuipers "Trespass is what we say..."
from 42opus

Web Monthly Feature, August, 2008:  "Anne B to Henry 8" by Sarah Maclay "I’ve seen the way you look at her across the room...."
from Poemeleon

Web Monthly Feature, July, 2008:  "World's End: North of San Francisco" by Tess Taylor "Here at the continent’s end, fortifications..."
from Guernica

Web Monthly Feature, June, 2008:  "Information Kiosk" by Jason Bredle "My shadow will kill your shadow, reader...."
from Anti-

Web Monthly Feature, May, 2008:  "Lady on a Unicycle" by Caki Wilkinson "So Esse Pearl gets snowed in at the chichi condo..."
from Unsplendid

Web Monthly Feature, April, 2008:  "The Translucent Nature of Irises" by Alexis Vergalla "dark bloom etched...."
from diode

Web Monthly Feature, March, 2008:  "Landscape with a Very Fat Man, Seated" by Paula Closson Buck "The man is alone but not extinct...."
from AGNI online

Web Monthly Feature, February, 2008:  "December Settles In Over HaverStraw Bay" by John Hoppenthaler "Doesn't the sky press heavily down today?..."
from The Dirty Napkin

Web Monthly Feature, January, 2008:  "Change of Address" by Nathan Hoks "The learned inform us that we are mostly..."
from Octopus Magazine

Web Monthly Feature, December, 2007:  "Orphanage keeper, handmade, suitcase bearing part of the sea" by Allison Titus & Rob Schlegel "...in which mirror are you least reflected; whose boots..."
from diode

Web Monthly Feature, November, 2007:  "Presto" by Kristen Tracy "At the magic show I always wanted the tiger..."
from AGNI

Web Monthly Feature, October, 2007:  "The Song of Wooden Animals" by Rachel Abramowitz "And why won’t you fall to me I’ll guess, O. In..."
from SHAMPOO

Web Monthly Feature, September, 2007:  "A Love Poem" by Jamison T. Crabtree "Maps are never skin. I know..."
from 42opus

Web Monthly Feature, August, 2007:  "Adam and Eve at Rest" by Ed Taylor "I drift awake, & search with the slow hands of trapped miners..."
from Swink

Web Monthly Feature, July, 2007:  "Pluto" by A. E. Stallings "Demoted, he still keeps his distance..."
from Unsplendid

Web Monthly Feature, June, 2007:  [At the edge of the music, a well.] by John Duvernoy "At the edge of the music, a well...."
from Octopus Magazine

Web Monthly Feature, May, 2007:  "Room with a Bed in the Middle" by Curtis Bauer "While I sleep my wife writes words..."
from Diagram

Web Monthly Feature, April, 2007:  "Bagpiper Among the Geese" by Paul Hostovsky " I think it looks to them..."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, March, 2007:  "Waking, Working" by Nance Van Winckel " I came to on the ground. In my fist..."
from AGNI Online

Web Monthly Feature, February, 2007:  "The End of Free Love" by Bryan Penberthy " ...And wasn’t the drunkest mania we’d ever caught..."
from Blackbird

Web Monthly Feature, January, 2007:  "The Mountain is Holding Out" by Paul Muldoon
" ...for news from the sea..."
from Octopus Magazine

Web Monthly Feature, December, 2006:  "'There's just one little thing: a ring. I don't mean on the phone.' —Eartha Kitt" by Kathy Fagan
" In lieu of the latkes..."
from Slate

Web Monthly Feature, November, 2006:  "Definitely" by Mary Jo Bang
" What is desire / But the hardwire argument given ..."
from Cordite Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, October, 2006:  "The Devil's Party" by Anna Journey
" Curious, how my cat thinks the soul is a thing. In winter..."
from Diagram

Web Monthly Feature, September, 2006:  "Apologia" by Paul Guest
" The homework swallowed the dog..."
from Octopus Magazine

Web Monthly Feature, August, 2006:  "WTF Sestina" by Meghann Marco
" 2punk4punk: do you like nirvana, omg..."
from McSweeney's

Web Monthly Feature, July, 2006:  "Superstition" by Allan Peterson
" I believe in the hot & dry, that's why Florida...."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, June, 2006:  "A nature film" by Bob Hicok
" Yellow kitty lifts its head from two months dead deer..."
from Poemeleon

Web Monthly Feature, May, 2006:  " from The Way Birds Become Homonyms: an Aviary" by Joseph Bradshaw
" When I burst into a million..."
from Caffeine Destiny

Web Monthly Feature, April, 2006:  " Lot's Wife" by Katha Pollitt
" Trudging behind the broad backside of God..."
from Slate

Web Monthly Feature, February, 2006:  " Quite Suddenly the Woods" by Hildred Crill
" open up: light spreads..."
from The New Hampshire Review

Web Monthly Feature, January, 2006:  "Ten Coyotes Eke Out" by Joanne Lowery
" Unwanted in the farmland, a pack of survivors..."
from Nidus

Web Monthly Feature, December, 2005:  "A Myth of Innocence" by Louise Glück
"One summer she goes into the field as usual..."
from Slate

Web Monthly Feature, November, 2005:  "In the Bulrushes" by Katha Pollitt
"Lotus. Papyrus. Turquoise. Lapis. Gold...."
from Slate

Web Monthly Feature, October, 2005:  "Going Blind" by Annette Basalyga
"What happens is that one eye loses interest...."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, September, 2005:  "Provisions" by Angela Ball
"I think we’re all missing something..."
from The DMQ Review

Web Monthly Feature, August, 2005:  "Stone and Fire, Fire and Stone" by C. Dale Young
"The sea sounds its regrets against rocks each year...."
from The New Hampshire Review

Web Monthly Feature, July, 2005:  "Misjudged Fly Ball" (don't forget to click on page 2!) by Alan Shapiro
"...too late too late, why..."
from The Cincinnati Review

Web Monthly Feature, June, 2005:  "Buzzards" by Ravi Shankar
"Buzzards..."
from Blackbird

Web Monthly Feature, May, 2005:  "Colorization" by Beth Bachmann
"Black and white distances the viewer...."
from Blackbird

Web Monthly Feature, April, 2005:  "The Riddle of the Shrink " by Nuar Alsadir
"It is the distress of losing a ticket..."
from Slate

Web Monthly Feature, March, 2005:  "The Darkness of Proper Names " by Julianne Buchsbaum
"Night is a door into possible dolor..."
from Drunken Boat

Web Monthly Feature, February, 2005:  "The Shovel" by Lucas Howell
"Those who never touch one..."
from The DMQ Review

Web Monthly Feature, January, 2005:  "In a Fog" by Muriel Nelson
"A winter willow broom..."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, December, 2004:  "Breaking" by Kristen Tracy
" The cats seemed to understand..."
from AGNI

Web Monthly Feature, November, 2004:  "Field Notes" by C. J. Sage
"A stealthy pride of lions..."
from In Posse

Web Monthly Feature,October, 2004:  "Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt" by Jane Hirshfield
"The dog, dead for years, keeps coming back in the dream...."
from Slate

Web Monthly Feature, September, 2004:  "Optimism" by Molly Peacock
" A freak spring snow storm made us take the old..."
from The Cortland Review

Web Monthly Feature, June, 2004:  "Gross Return" by Stacy Kidd
"That we woke with the water surrounding us..."
from The DMQ Review

Web Monthly Feature, April, 2004:  "A Landscape Like This" by Cynie Cory
"You were already gone like winter..."
from Melic Review

Web Monthly Feature, March, 2004:  "Words a Hospitality" by Margot Schilpp
"An oasis can spring up in the actual..."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, February, 2004:  "Doppelganger Music" by Reginald Shepherd
"Must I again wake from dreams of March storms..."
from Blackbird

Web Monthly Feature, January, 2004:  "Out Of Cupid's Range" by Kathleen Flenniken
"Those crowded rooms that once enchanted her..."
from Literary Salt

Web Monthly Feature, December, 2003:  "Climbing" by Robin Kemp
"You won't climb granite with me, mind divorced...."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, November, 2003:  "The Pet" by Cate Marvin
"I rode him through the village, smiling...."
from Slate

Web Monthly Feature, October, 2003:  "Sacred Heart" by Robin Kemp
"Here is the sacred heart, from which we bleed..."
from Able Muse

Web Monthly Feature, September, 2003:  "The Snap" by Rachel Dacus
"My sleep is cut in half by a latch's snap..."
from Pierian Springs

Web Monthly Feature, August, 2003:  "Talking to Myself" by C. J. Sage
"Some say things are more beautiful when silent...."
from In Posse Review

Web Monthly Feature, July, 2003:  "Forecast" by R. G. Evans
"His daughter is learning to walk..."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, June, 2003:  "Big Dog, Little Dog" by Wyatt Prunty
"The one two times the other's size..."
from Slate

Web Monthly Feature, May, 2003:  "Elemental Attention, Stillness" by Cynthia Hogue
"The backyard's birch scuffed ..."
from nidus

Web Monthly Feature, April, 2003:  "Left Bank" by Mark Conway
"...a mouse plopped on the windshield..."
from Drunken Boat

Web Monthly Feature, March, 2003:  "Chow Call" by Deborah Tobola
"Driving onto the prison grounds during chow call..."
from The DMQ Review

Web Monthly Feature, February, 2003:  "Peripetia, or Flowers for Everyone" by C. J. Sage
"How difficult it is to love the stupid ..."
from The Adirondack Review

Web Monthly Feature, January, 2003:  "The Mum" by Judith Skillman
"...Lushness comes apart / like a dream ..."
from Literary Salt

Web Monthly Feature, December, 2002:  "Eurydice & Lover Boy" by Stuart Lishan
"Hades is beautiful. We've our flowers, too..."
from The In Posse Review

Web Monthly Feature, November, 2002:  "What You Want" by Lola Haskins
"When the rough-faced sea ignites the western clouds..."
from The Adirondack Review

Web Monthly Feature, October, 2002:  "Humble House" by David Baker
"Even the lawn is cramped with hydrangeas..."
from Valparaiso Poetry Review

Web Monthly Feature, September, 2002:  "No, Brother, I Did Not See" by Thomas Bates
"...kissing me / you said, When we are old, we will be afraid to die...."
from Pif Magazine

Web Monthly Feature, August, 2002:  "More Life" by R. G. Evans
"Whatever fire burns us first, they teach us the word No...."
from Pif Magazine

Web Monthly Feature, July, 2002:  "Deliverance" by Peggy Shumaker
"What kind of Moses / would arrive in the form / of a rooster..."
from Blackbird

Web Monthly Feature, Introduction, 2002:  "Via Negativa Meister Eckhart" by Garth Greenwell
"As what gleams in a bowl half filled..."
from In Posse Review