COLUMNS
Not Another TV Dad
CL Bledsoe on managing all the feelings of a tough year and cultivating resilience through humor
Gaze
Irena Ioannou on how 2020 as a year of ground-breaking scientific discovery
Spotlight
Maria Behan on clearing the devastation of the Trump presidency for a brighter future for America
Open Your Eyes Review
Mike Hembury’s review of the poetry anthology ‘Open Your Eyes’ edited by Vinita Agrawal
Head Above Water
Tim Clark on a sense of connection with all peoples and weathering the winter in the world family together
From the Inside
Ryan M. Moser on the countdown along the lifetime of addiction towards prison
FICTION
Deniz Arslan
Deniz Arslan’s flash fiction story ‘Vasvi’s Song’
Tim Goldstone
Tim Goldstone’s flash fiction story ‘Beneath’
POETRY
Alison Lock
Alison Lock’s poems ‘West Nab to Marsden’ and ‘Clematis vitalba/Old Man’s Beard’
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Anatoly Kudryavitsky’s poems ‘Decembering Through’ and ‘Finlandia’
Angela Topping
Angela Topping’s poems ‘Seaham Sea Glass in Winter’, ‘Tree Music’, and ‘Blackbird, Shopping’
Evie Groch
Evie Groch’s poems ‘Uncertain Prayer’, ‘Bless Me’ and ‘Wicked Music’
Deborah Purdy
Deborah Purdy’s poems ‘Winter Solstice’, ‘Winter Clearing’ and ‘After a Sudden and Unexpected Loss’
Cathy Miller
Cathy Miller’s poem ‘Dance A Christmas Morning’
Federica Santini
Federica Santini’s poem ‘Substrata’
Frances Boyle
Frances Boyle’s poem ‘Spectral’
Gregory Luce
Gregory Luce’s poem ‘Mind of Winter’
Helen Moore
Helen Moore’s poem ‘Tracks & Signs’
Martin Willitts Jr.
Martin Willitts Jr.’s poems ‘Winter Tanka’, ‘First Snow’ and ‘Tea House at Koishikawa. The Morning after a Snowfall’
Melody Wang
Melody Wang’s poem ‘what shall become of our pact?’
Renée M. Sgroi
Renée M. Sgroi’s poem ‘preparing to overwinter’
Sam Houty
Sam Houty’s poem ‘Drummer Boy’
Sreedevi Anumula
Sreedevi Anumula’s poems ‘Window’ and ‘Beneath the Bending Birches’
Swastika Jajoo
Swastika Jajoo’s poem ‘makkhan/butter’
POETRY REVIEWS
Open Your Eyes Review
Mike Hembury’s review of the poetry anthology ‘Open Your Eyes’ edited by Vinita Agrawal
‘Grief Bacon’ review
Review of the poetry collection ‘Grief Bacon’ by CL Bledsoe
QUARANTINE COMFORTS
Nina Hynes’s new single ‘Go’ – go buy and support her on Bandcamp
‘Growler Rising’ by Dee Mulrooney
Listen to our editor Kusi Okamura on the need for writers over 40
Music online with Mick Hembury and Jenka Bühler
Yin Yoga in your sitting room with Erinbell Fanore
Fascinating interview series with Daniel Lazaar
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