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A crow has been calling in the front yard since the sun rose. It’s the beginning of November and my left breast feels heavy. I lift it and the pressure…

* * * Flock constant and inconstant both _________like the fluttering of wings o the manyness of things _________that keep us from ourselves and must be fed _________dusted, displayed, shooed…

I know the poets say “bone-white,” but bones are never really so-white, and these beached bones have surely been bleached white. On approach to them, I am tilted by the…

* * * The Woodpecker He interrupts us with his staccato tap tapping, swivels his skunk crown to mock our quiet conversation. By now we assume all the rules are…

Website Submission Guidelines Interview with Joan Baranow and David Watts, Editors How did Wolf Ridge Press start? Our press started in 2008 when David had put together a collection of…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;  Petals on a wet, black bough. -Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” Dear Big Toe on my Left Foot,  …

Note from the editor: This Halloween, we asked you to review your scariest moments in books, with the aim of getting at just what of literature–perhaps even art in general–sticks with…

Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich Twelve Books, 2018 256 pages / Twelve   Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler Random House, 2018 208 pages…

Somewhere, in an email nearly a decade old now, and in reference to a conversation I can’t quite recall, Sesshu Foster wrote something to the effect of “there’s a difference…

Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015 136 pages – Timeless, Infinite Light / Amazon   “When I was a music journalist,” begins Amy Berkowitz’s book-length lyric essay Tender Points,…