The poems are: "Red Crescent" from The Erotic Postulate; "Sitting in a WaWa Parking Lot" from Skin Shift; and "5th Avenue Stretch" from Impossible Gotham.

This first issue features poets who have read on The Joe Milford Poetry Show.  Too many great names to list all the contributors, just go check it out.  And great work editing and putting this together Joe and Chenelle!

So in alphabetical order, here are some of t...

Woods highlights some of our work:

So what impresses me here, before we even begin on the content, is the quality of the verse. Christopher Gaskins, for instance, impresses me not so much for what he says as by the way he says it in lean, sinewy, unsentimental...

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A finely-crafted story in verse that deftly explores the subtle ways in which we reveal ourselves to, or hide ourselves from, those we love.

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The mountain:

Far out in the distance there is the school where Michael teaches and commutes to each day:

This was pretty much the view a few floors down from Michael's...

But first, some sculpture.  Here is a sculpture of a hand on Michael's coffee table:

Michael had many opportunities to buy more hands that weekend, but he resisted.  I still think a hand collection would be creepy and fun.  And here is Michael posing with a sculpture of a woman and a...