Happy to announce Richard Layne’s first published poem ever, and his status as featured poet for April 2018! Annie Blake also has five absolutely stellar poems in this issue, and I really cannot overstate her sense of natural speech rhythm and talent for weaving together tangential images into a meaningful whole. I chose Richard’s poem as this month’s feature to make his first success as splashy as possible, and hopefully help promote his work as he continues to submit elsewhere.
This being a monthly publication, sometimes there are few people in a given month who submit work that pushes that little red
“publish this”
button. I believe in filling these pages with only such work, not filling a quota, and I hope you’re okay with reading a little less of great work some months than reading work that fits a little less into the idea of this place.