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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