Author Archives: Jennifer Eldridge

The octopus is on television. The lights flash. She is electrocuted. I was going to sew in my life a flavor, on the curtains, of telephones Sunrise The ghost crab baby wears green earrings when she comes out of the … Continue reading →

PALLET by Benjamin Robinson   “It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.” Epicurus (Greek philosopher, 341 BC – … Continue reading →

Lindsay Tigue attends the MFA program in Creative Writing and the Environment at Iowa State University. Formerly, she worked for the Great Books Foundation and managed the quarterly magazine, the Common Review. She is currently the nonfiction editor of Flyway: … Continue reading →

Dr. G, as her students call her, is a poet, mother of Enrico and Eleuterio, married to physics teacher and musician Eric Muhs, and an Associate professor at Seattle University.  She has traveled the world in search of words and … Continue reading →

Bobby Nicolescu writes poetry, prose, and drama in English and Romanian, and her work has appeared in several small U.S. journals. Beadmaking When in our molten silence gasping at air we swallow it unchewed and cloy together on the verge … Continue reading →

1. What have you been up to since you finished your MFA? My wife and fellow NMSU MFA alum Tracy Rae Bowling got a job in Iowa City writing tests. I followed her, tried one job, that one didn’t work … Continue reading →