COLUMNS
Tumbleweed
Our new TUMBLEWEED columnist Krystyn Hartman on observations of love and life in a fabric store
Let’s Do Luddism
Cory Massaro on human, and non-human, relationships and communication in the age of robots
From the Inside
Marina Bueno on the precious minutes of connection and freedom with her family on the phone
Not Another TV Dad
CL Bledsoe on the hope of love and companionship and holding out for the right person
Gaze
Irena Ioannou on her fascination with classic tv crime characters who don’t give up on love or each other
Head Above Water
Tim Clark on Baby Boomer reflections on the dating dilemmas and multiple identities of men trying to evolve
Center Stage – John Bing
CENTER STAGE celebrates and talks with poet John Bing
8 YEARS OF THE WILD WORD
FICTION
Dan Morrison
Dan Morrison’s ‘A Last Goodbye’
Diane Parrish
Diane Parrish’s story ‘Love Letter’
Garry Engkent
Garry Engkent’s story ‘The Story of Ng 吳’
Halina Duraj
Halina Duraj’s story ‘The Book of Joy’
Harry Neil
Harry Neil’s story ‘Anguish’
Rob Yates
Rob Yates’s story ‘The Ultimatum’
Robert Perron
Robert Perron’s story ‘Sunrise Cliff’
Sameera Rachakonda
Sameera Rachakonda’s story ‘I tried throwing the clock out the window to make time fly’
Suzanne C. Martinez
Suzanne C. Martinez’s stories ‘Nearly Father’ and ‘Bernie at the Movies’
Victoria Sellar
Victoria Sellar’s story ‘The things we do for loves’
POETRY
Anne Graue
Anne Graue’s poems ‘Love like a splendid storm’, ‘The Dream of the Cave’, and ‘Elasticity’
Becca Miles
Becca Miles’s poem ‘My Equinox Love’
Buffy Aakaash
Buffy Aakaash’s poem ‘One Tennessee Summer’
Buffy Shutt
Buffy Shutt’s poems ‘An Inch or So of Time’ and ‘A Waltz’
Chris Pellizzari
Chris Pellizzari’s poem ‘The Olive Tree in Granada where Lorca is Buried at Night’
David Milley
David Milley’s poem ‘Day is Done’
David Perkins
David Perkins’s poem ‘And Time’
Erin Jamieson
Erin Jamieson’s poem ‘Maybe We Should Open the Blinds’
Jacqueline Jules
Jacqueline Jules’s poems ‘On My 67th Birthday’, ‘The Day You Were Born’ and ‘Dearest Wish’
Jean Baur
Jean Baur’s poems ‘SINGING’ and ‘A FLOODED WOOD’
Jennifer M. Phillips
Jennifer M. Phillips’s poem ‘Eyelids’
Jim Brosnan
Jim Brosnan’s poems ‘Captured Moments’, ‘Lost in Dreams’, and ‘Spring in Newington’
Julie Taylor Green
Julie Taylor Green’s poem ‘A Poet on the Train’
Karin Molde
Karin Molde’s poems ‘I dream myself into the map of Tanzania’, ‘Dog roses, May 1945’, and ‘Moonlight Serenade’
Katrina Kaye
Katrina Kaye’s poems ‘Forever’, ‘Masterpiece’, and ‘Twenty Poems of Love by Pablo Neruda’
Kersten Christianson
Kersten Christianson’s poems ‘When the Heart Leaps’, ‘From the Outer Coast’ and ‘Come-hither to the Hearth’
Laura Davies
Laura Davies’s poems ‘Leaving’, ‘The Loss of I’ and ‘Divorce’
Matthew J. Andrews
Matthew J. Andrews’s poems ‘Love Poem with Chalupas’, ‘Stargazer’, and ‘Strip Monopoly’
Max Cavitch
Max Cavitch’s poem ‘Home Work’
Michael T. Young
Michael T. Young’s poems ‘What We Touch in Each Other’ and ‘Interruption’
Michael Theroux
Michael Theroux’s poems ‘Fall Morning Light’ and ‘Histories of Nations’
Peggy Heitmann
Peggy Heitmann’s poems ‘The Exchange’, ‘What the Man Needs is No Different than the Boy’, and ‘My Darling’
Ruth Ticktin
Jonathan Borba’s poems ‘Follow the Flow’, ‘Ever Light’, and ‘My Friend’
Terry S. Johnson
Terry S. Johnson’s poems ‘Dialysis Before Daybreak’, ‘Shifting Beach’, and ‘The Sentence’
POETRY REVIEWS
Review of ‘A “Sonetto” for the Poetic World’
Review of A “Sonetto” for the Poetic World by Koshy AV
Review of ‘Contrapasso’
Review of Alexandra Fössinger’s poetry collection ‘Contrapasso’
LITERARY BERLIN
WHAT WE LOVE
Nina Hynes song ‘Looking For You’ from her new album ZAP! Buy here.
‘Growler Rising’ by Dee Mulrooney
Music online with Mick Hembury and Jenka Bühler
Yin Yoga in your sitting room with Erinbell Fanore
Rufus Coates & Jess Smith’s ‘Modern Day Cathedral’
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