Elaina Erola

"One end of the drive was full of the places and people that built me. The other is full of the beginnings, challenges, and ignitions that kept me going. I needed each to sustain the other. I went home, I went home, I went home." 

Dudley Stone

"Emily Dickinson reaches through eternity / to pluck my sleeve and say, 'Look – / is it not terrifying how You cannot turn / away from Your Fate?'”

Bobbi Sinha-Morey

"I'd nearly forgotten the scent of tea / and roses, the feel of ripe fruit, / the time my teenage daughter showed / me how to use a Bunsen burner."

Fred Johnson

"winter, may well always have been, / cardinals singing in the thaw except / it’s gone, the cardinals I mean, not the snow"

Jasper Glen

"Children? I am singular, / Unfamiliar, spawndark / mob of myself"