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
“A Day in the Garden” by Kaitlyn Brown
2024-09-18
Most of all, I watch her
Wander about her garden,
Near-waltzing through rows of
Tomatoes and lilies,
Through okra, peppers, and fig trees,
And I see . . . Continue Reading
“Mountain Edging” by Megan Krupa
2024-08-28
When you’re on the edge,
you’d expect a century to look
a little less like itself.
Full of newness and breath,
but maybe it’s . . . Continue Reading