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Randi Ward

Randi Ward

Randi Ward is a writer, translator, lyricist and photographer from West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and is a recipient of The American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Prize. Ward is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee whose work has appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, World Literature Today and other publications.

Cattails

Mangy
cattails twitch—
a bullfrog
skitters off
ripples
of sunlight.

Broomsedge

Sweeping snowy
hillsides ablaze
at dusk—
my fingertips
burn.

Callous

Summers
squandered
marching
barefoot
across plots
of sun-spurred
stones.

Windfalls

Overripe
silences
nobody
can stomach—
waiting
for worms.

Poetry

James Lineberger

James Lineberger
There Comes a Time

Poetry

Regina Colonia-Willner

Regina Colonia-Willner
The Long Diagonal

Poetry

Jeff Burt

Jeff Burt
Boathouse