Jessica Adams
After living ten years on a sailboat, Jessica Adams joined the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in a variety of journals.
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- Poetry
Three Poems by Dinah Ryan
I have fallen in love with winter, / with the day that ends at 3:45 in the afternoon. // with the man striding along the path grasping / a pink plastic bag that glows incandescent / although it only contains dish soap / and the cat food he carries home after work …
- Poetry
Two Poems by Daisy Bassen
...you wonder again about the soul, / Where it hides, where it ventures. / There's always one you have to bring to oblivion...
- Poetry
Three Poems by Carl Boon
I wanted to be gray-faced / and hated by the Yankees / in the suburbs past Carleton.
- Poetry
Two Poems by Patricia Behrens
Once he’d made the long, impetuous trip, / once we were there, evening air billowing my skirt / over the Pacific, surf sweeping like brushes over drums, / I knew we’d marry.
- Poetry
Tinnitus
By Kris Spencer
I lived by a river with tides unresolved / Under the house a sewer under a wooden board it ran / Sometimes a tapping sometimes a hum in the night like a motor
- Poetry
Upon Entering the Unknown University
By Christopher Chambers
and I dream of a young woman from Prague / standing beside a red motorcycle as if so much / depended upon it...
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