Due to a heavy backlog submissions are currently closed until October 2012. Please do not submit work
at this time. Thank you. Next issue, Spring/Summer 2012 available in March.
Featured poet Jason L. Huskey, from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue
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Featured poet Scott T. Swartz, from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue
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Art published by The Stray Branch.
Artists own all copyrights to their work.
Pictured here is "Solange" by Rex Sexton
Published in current isse.
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Photography published by The Stray Branch.
Photographers own all copyrights to their work.
Photo pictured here by Rick Hartwell
published in the current issue
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Karen Keslsay Davies has recently started two publishing companies,
Aldrich Publishing (for advanced writers), and the other is
Alabaster Leaves (for newer poets and first books)
Alabaster Leaves
Aldrich Publishing
New Poetry Collection
Wolf Down by Anthony Liccione
Wolf Down is a book of poetry containing 40 poems, released by
Corrupt Press in December. (Read my review here.)
Don’t Pet The Sweaty Things by KJ Hannah Greenberg
Don't Pet The Sweaty Things, a collection of short fictions, published
by Bards & Sages. It’s available in print and in electronic forms, and,
what’s more, has related swag for sale.
Read more: New Poetry/Fiction Collections
Contributors
Poems
"Dog Years" by Adam Gianforcaro
"Of Her Hair" by Joseph M. Gant
"Day Unites the Self" by Carl Scharwath
"Departure for D.D." by Allison Meraz
Fiction/Flash
"Hamilton's Heart" by Anita Stewart (Fiction)
"Things Don't Change" by Daniel Gallik (Flash)