A friend of mine sent me the horoscope that includes what became the opening line for ‘The Lightning Medicine.’ Initially, I wasn’t a 100% sure what this statement was supposed to foretell about the rest of my day, but then a thunderstorm came later that afternoon to “clear” things up! No one can give you […]
Bern Mulvey
The Funeral Feast, Bern Mulvey's fifth collection of poems, will be published by Main Street Rag Publishing later in 2022. Other books include The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants (winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize) and Deep Snow Country (winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize), as well as two award-winning chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Agni, Colorado Review, The Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, FIELD, Passages North, Poetry East, Michigan Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, etc.
Pandemic Pantoum
The problem with Trump stripping the CDC of COVID-19 data is obvious, but still terrifying. — Sarah Midkiff Masked, gloved, hood up, I’m eating takeout. They don’t have to tell us the true numbers. Coyotes and quail are taking back the streets. The President says he’s doing great. They don’t have to tell us […]