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Early Bird by Julia Caroline Knowlton

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Early Bird

So glad I got
a good spot

parallel parked
in a secret part of sky

near your heart
(right in front

of the entrance in fact)
waiting for it to open

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Julia Caroline Knowlton is a Professor of French and Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. Julia has a PhD in French Literature (UNC-Chapel Hill) and an MFA in Poetry (Antioch University, Los Angeles). The author of one full-length poetry collection, three poetry chapbooks, a memoir and a children’s book, she has twice been named Georgia Author of the Year. Her work has also been recognized by the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Atlanta and Paris.

Knowlton is Guest Editor of ONE ART’s In a Nutshell: an anthology of micropoems.

Three Poems by Betsy Mars

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Gentrification

Upon the brick wall,
a word.
Five quick passes
of the paint roller
and it became
a nasturtium, an assertion,
an asterisk, a footnote.

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Mexico City

the Matador swings his cape
my eyes at thirteen
looking for an exit

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Tooth Fish

In the news one gristly story
takes me back to Brazil,
and me, five or six—the first time
I imagined a world of threat –
an eddy of piranhas, all teeth,
beneath dark water, just waiting
for a small girl to dip in a toe.

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Betsy Mars is a prize-winning poet, photographer, and an editor at Gyroscope Review. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Betsy’s poems are widely available online and in print, most recently in ONE ART, Calul, Book of Matches, and the anthology Signed, Sealed, Delivered The Motown Poetry Review (Madville Press). Her photos have appeared in various journals, including Spank the Carp and Rattle. Betsy has had two chapbooks published, Alinea, and In the Muddle of the Night, co-authored with Alan Walowitz. Additionally, through her publishing venture (Kingly Street Press) she released two anthologies, Unsheathed: 24 Contemporary Poets Take Up the Knife and Floored. A full-length book, Rue Obscure, is forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.

Perfection by Ann Kriselle

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Perfection

Why do you crave to be whole?
We don’t call the moon ugly,
When it’s not full

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Ann Kriselle is a full-time Marketer and part-time Writer from India. She is also a trained singer who has competed in multiple national-level competitions. You can find more of her works on instagram.com/ann_kriselle and annkriselle.substack.com

In One of Night’s Anonymous Hours by Mary Makofske

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In One of Night’s Anonymous Hours

I lie awake hearing the wind,
a freight loaded up with the past.
No brakeman, no brakes, and the tracks
leading straight to my bed.

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Mary Makofske is the author of six books of poetry. Her latest are No Angels (Kelsay, 2023, nominated for the Eric Hoffer Award); The Gambler’s Daughter (Orchard Street Press, 2022); World Enough, and Time (Kelsay, 2017); and Traction (Ashland Poetry, 2011), winner of the Richard Snyder Prize. She received the 2024 William Matthews Prize from Asheville Poetry Review and has received first place prizes in Quiet Diamonds, Atlanta Review, New Millennium Writings, Lullwater Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Ledge, and Cumberland Poetry Review, and the Hudson-Fowler Prize for a five poem submission from Slant. marymakofske.com

Lovestruck by Julia Caroline Knowlton

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Lovestruck

All the arrows go
through me—sharp and gold.
Joy enters

(blind, uninvited violation)
as pure presence
from an innate place within.

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Julia Caroline Knowlton is a Professor of French and Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. She has won two separate Georgia Author of the Year awards for her poetry. Her latest volume of poetry is a children’s book. She lives in Atlanta and Paris.

Two Poems by Brian Beatty

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Silhouettes

A half dozen hawks
floated in the white sky

above an anonymous
river’s rushing brown floodwaters.

The sun above that scene was blinding,
beating down, drying

the bank’s loose prairie sand into cement.

There I stood like a monument
to tourism, lost in my phone.

Just one dumb picture of the birds’
perfectly choreographed circles

was all I wanted.
But they were already gone.

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The Yawn

I’m so tired tonight
I worry I might

swallow the world.

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Brian Beatty is the author of five small press poetry collections and a spoken word album. Beatty’s poems have appeared in Appalachian Journal, Conduit, CutBank, Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse, Gulf Coast, Hobart, The Missouri Review, The Moth, ONE ART, The Quarterly, Rattle and The Southern Review.