Poetry

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Fire in Steubenville

By Richard Hague|2022-04-15T16:49:27-04:00June 30, 2021|Poetry|

"Each time I come back home / something else has burned."

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Trouble

By Samika Swift|2022-04-15T16:49:28-04:00April 28, 2021|Poetry|

"The jukebox at Pizza King didn’t bump any songs past / 1978 but we fed it quarters anyway"

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Midwestern

By Noah C. Lekas|2021-03-18T17:48:00-04:00March 4, 2021|Poetry|

"I heard the dreams of a revisionist age, / the once upon a time / of a land strong in industry."

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Great Dams on the Land

By Chris Cocca|2022-04-15T16:49:28-04:00February 17, 2021|Poetry|

"When my son rides the Switch Back Gravity Rail over coal lines in Jim Thorpe, I hope to God the mountains are His and my boy might believe in his ancestor clans."

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Why is the City of Flint Allowed to Waste Away?

By Katelyn Rivas|2021-02-17T18:04:29-05:00February 10, 2021|Poetry|

It’s February in Flint, Michigan and children will / make paper heart valentines."

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Fire in Steubenville

2022-04-15T16:49:27-04:00By Richard Hague|Poetry|

Trouble

2022-04-15T16:49:28-04:00By Samika Swift|Poetry|

Midwestern

2021-03-18T17:48:00-04:00By Noah C. Lekas|Poetry|

Great Dams on the Land

2022-04-15T16:49:28-04:00By Chris Cocca|Poetry|

Why is the City of Flint Allowed to Waste Away?

2021-02-17T18:04:29-05:00By Katelyn Rivas|Poetry|

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