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.
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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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Rick Hartwell: (Published in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue #9)
Joseph T. Smith: (Published in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue #9)
Elizabeth Kate Switaj: Published in Issue #8 Fall/Winter 2011 Bio: Elizabeth Kate Switaj’s photographs have appeared in GUD, Carpe Diem Review, The Sylvan Echo, Schmap travel guides, and Kaleidowhirl as well as on the cover of Boxcar Poetry?s 2006 anthology. She is currently an intern for Irish Pages and a doctoral candidate at Queen?s Universiity Belfast.For more information visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net
M.K. Metz: Published (photo and poem, “Happiness”) in Issue #8 Fall/Winter 2010 Bio: M.K.Metz is a writer living in San Francisco
Nikoo tarkhani: Published in issue #7 Spring/Summer 2011 Statement: based on latest discussions about feminism and post feminism; things became a bit obscured. what is the real feminism? as Germaine Greer said:"the point was to change the male system, not to join it". although she enjoys her husband's art of home cooking; Fay Weldon says: "back to the kitchen,woman!". the name of my series comes from this phrase by Weldon. to me the truth is like a mirror broken onto thousands of pieces. each piece reflects some parts of the reality. but to find the truth you have to have the whole image; which is I guess beyond reach. these pictures are all self-portraits. each refers to some facts about feminism; either sarcastically or directly.
Caitlin Colford: Published in issue #7 Spring/Summer 2011
Rod Walker: Published in issue #6 Fall/Winter 2010 Bio: Rod Walker lives in Batesville, Indiana. His poetry & photography have appeared in a wide variety of publications over the last 25 years.
Christopher Woods: Published in issue #5 Spring/Summer 2010 http://www.moonbirdhill.exposuremanager.com
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)