Portrait of a Hillbilly Boy by Eric Creech
2025-09-03
My father was coal dusted and bent from the mines
But he saw that I had a degree
He taught me to hold a jack rock as . . . Continue Reading
All that Glitters . . . by Glenda Barrett
2025-08-06
. . . on Sunday morning to church. The preacher was
half-way through his sermon, when I felt something
crawling on my back. Thinking it was a fly, I rubbed
my back and realized it was . . . Continue Reading
Our Sunday at Soddy Lake by Sharon Shadrick
2025-07-23
Her bare feet shoved into slip on shoes
A cigarette dangling from her lips.
Windows down, my . . . Continue Reading
Small Town Scripture by Brett Gordon
2025-06-18
Blessed be the small town girl
Who dreams of city lights,
Chinatowns, and . . . Continue Reading
“Glass Cabin” by Hannah Bagley
2025-05-28
We rise at dawn,
Your nose still scrunched from slumber.
I meditate to the sound of the sparrows,
My prayer to . . . Continue Reading
Cherokee Rose by Daniel F. James
2025-05-14
Stood amongst the echoes of the Cherokee’s despair,
where sorrow’s soil has sprouted hope, the Rose does declare.
Its roots entwined with . . . Continue Reading
“Song of the Mountains” and “For Just a Handful of Coal” by John C. Mannone
2025-04-23
Strip mining decapitates the mountains
Their remains are dumped into rivers
Many tears have been shed by the sky . . . Continue Reading
A Leap of Faith by Danielle Lowe
2025-01-15
I gazed up at the old building
as it seemed to swallow me whole
Many walked through its halls
as expectations screamed its call
Years of deadlines and late nights
had lead me to . . . Continue Reading
Mother: Time by Claire Elise Baker
2024-11-06
Anymore, the bearded faces that smothered my cheeks with burns and kisses have been shaved. Some buried. The dresses now are too small, the laced edges ripped . . . Continue Reading
The Indignity of Knowing by Amber Albritton Debut Collection Review
2024-10-02
Albritton’s poems take no prisoners. They’re raw, sensate, fierce—unapologetically so. She ferrets out the shadowy interstices lurking in . . . Continue Reading