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- The Water Mystery - by S. Keller
- Sea Poem - by Susan Dale
- Regret - by Scott Owens
- The Arrival of the Past - by Scott Owens
- Puff Up, Inflate - by Donal Mahoney
- Two Rivers - by John Sibley Williams
- Mother, Edith, at 98 - by Michael Lee Johnson
- Long Black Boots - by Simon J Titchener
- In A Basement - by Henry Sosnowski
- I Did It - by Mike Perkins
- Quietus - by Katy Li
- Memories of One - by Cindy Goldberg
- Falling Asleep During an Approaching Thunderstorm - by Ryan Miller
- Volume XV, No. IV - Winter 2009-2010
- Albatross - by Mike Florian
- Fragile messages - by Kushal Poddar
- It's Not What You Think - by Joe DiSabatino
- Night Stroll - by Miranda Sheridan
- OUT OF THE ARBITRARY - by John Grey
- The Tragedy of Race - by Sonja Burton
- HOLLYWOOD - by Dennis Bagwell
- Dancing Alone - by Becky Franklin
- Catepillar Park - by Ryan Sagert
- The Meaning of It All - by Sohail Mahmood
- Potters Bar - by Sharon Lansbury
- Wooden Anniversary - by Donal Mahoney
- Gibberish - by Mallory Clark
- One Thought Splintered - by David Barger
- The Joke Shop - by Doug Holder
- Enduring Freedom - by Peter Branson
- Totally Cool - by Mel Brake
- CHILLING WITH DICTATORS - by Michael Shorb
- Suddenly One Morning - by Jeani Rector
- Women's Work - by Sandra Jean-Pierre
- The Nothing of You - by Natascha Tallowin
- Only On Weekends - by Lawrence Gladeview
- January - by Susan Dale
- Poem for Berkeley - by Jeani Rector
- I AM I - by Zack Rearick
- On a Train Platform - by Chris G. Vaillancourt
- Precarious and Unrefined - by Natascha Tallowin
- For All We Know - by Eric Jensen
- Sleep and the Way it Dreams - by Susan Dale
- Within me - by Violette Rose-Jones
- Computer Programming - by Sharon Lansbury
- Future Prospects - by Joseph Farley
- In the crowd of men - by Geoffrey Landis
- Halloween - by David Lawton
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- Zoe - by Marc Carver
- Lost and Useless - by Michael Estabrook
- Forbidden Love - by Farida Samerkhanova
- Every Second Sunday - by Courtney Butler
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- The Spaces Between - by Josh Stewart
- Where I live - by Andrea M. Young
- N’est-ce pas? - By Thao Ho
- Volume XV, No. III - Fall 2009
- Jealous Believers - by Andrea M. Young
- Sucker punched - by Andrea M. Young
- Memory Recovery - by Kevin Dublin
- If I Could find Her and Hear Her Speak - by Kevin Dublin
- Joy - by Joe C. Miller
- Daddy - by Lynn Atkinson
- Study in Black & White - by Doug Tanoury
- Low Tide - by Pearl Nelson
- The Hygienist - by Carol Thisltlethwaite
- Her pretty little finger - by Michael Estabrook
- Another Haiku - by Mike Saleeby
- Seeing Red - by Karen Finnigan
- Sunshine of Yesterday - by Jesse Kimmel-Freeman
- Two Haiku - by Patricia Carragon
- Haiku - Myth - by Steve Nash
- Hot Work - by Dr. Tiff Holland
- Forced Entry - by David Rynne
- Rainy Twilight In Paris - by Susan Dale
- Haiku - by Shaahrokh Solhjoo
- Blink - Haiku - by Jesse Kimmel-Freeman
- Hallucinations - by Elnaz Rezaei Ghalechi
- After - by Geoffrey A. Landis
- The Gift of Perception - by Ryan Sagert
- Park Moments - by Gary Beck
- A Father's Reverie - by Donal Mahoney
- Dropped by a Peacock - by Donal Mahoney
- Haiku #2 - by Robert Graves
- Better Man - by LDM Fabbo
- Haiku - by Mike Saleeby
- Captured - by Margaret Campbell
- Haiku #3 - by Carl Scharwath
- Haiku #2 - by Carl Scharwath
- Haiku #1 - by Carl Scharwath
- Sideswiped - by Nanette Opperman
- Fool - by Abigail Wyatt
- Seashore Haiku - by Kay Middleton
- Haiku - by Gene Myers
- Moments in Exile I - by Neil Ray
- Seasonal Touch - by Gary Beck
- Second Haiku - by Ethan Becker
- Childhood Fears - by Scott Owens
- open season by Michael "Henry Lee" Sanders
- Haiku - by Michael "Henry Lee" Sanders
- LAND OF SCARECROWS - by Katarzyna Boczo-Dobbie
- Haiku - Pine cone - by James Dutch
- Harmlessness - by Stanka Gjuric
- Humble Wishes - by Jeanette Cheezum
- First Haiku - by Ethan Becker
- The Middle of The Water - Eric Jensen
- rice - Haiku - by Poddar Kushal
- Volume XV, No. II - Summer 2009
- I CAN'T WRITE A LOVE POEM - by Tarum Durga
- Words - by Kristen Laliberte
- Working on a spring Saturday - by Ana Ribeiro
- Haiku - by satnrose
- 1986 - by John David Capps
- The only hint of what once was... - by Ryan Sagert
- Dogfight - Haiku by James Dutch
- The Demons Stay Down for Now - by Dawn Dupler
- Japanese Dream Recollection - by Anne Tibbitts
- New Winter in the City of Lights - by Jeremy Footer
- February Thaw - by Michele Alice
- Surrealism - by Collin Breaux
- Haiku - by Dan Hardison
- The Last Rite - by Elnaz Rezaei Ghalechi
- BRIDGE - by Marc Carver
- The Answer - by Sarah E. Boim
- Good Morning Birmingham - by Sarah E. Boim
- Exposure - by Scott Owens
- Baby, it's warm outside - by K Weber
- The White Witch Responds - by Jean Arthur Jones
- The Prince Within the White Room - by John David Capps
- Susan Showering - by Donal Mahoney
- A very short long week - by Bozena Intrator
- Haiku - by Laurie Kuntz
- A sip of life - by Ana Ribeiro
- DREAM STATE - by John Grey
- Haiku - by Craig Fishbane
- When Children Disappear - by Tammy Robacker
- Hommes blancos - by Marc Carver
- Haiku - by Jadyn DeWald
- Eternity - by Jeanette Cheezum
- Carrot Soup - by Heather Cunningham
- Only I Remain - by Siobhan Pitchford
- Nothingness in the Whisper - by Siobhan Pitchford
- Erotic Haiku - Winter - by Stephanie Sesic
- Long Ago - by JD Roland
- Beat - by Andrew Raeburn
- Haiku by Peter L. Scacco
- Jason and Medea - by Peter L. Scacco
- COFFEE CULTURE - by Marc Carver
- Standing Stones - by Margaret Carruthers
- Lenten Angst - Ben Kuzemka
- To my first kiss - by Ana Ribeiro
- HERETIC - by Marc Carver
- IT FALLS APART - by Robert Edward Thomas
- Tires - by Jennifer Johnson
- Train of Thought - by Jonathan Senna
- Tides - by Jennifer Johnson
- Finnish Landscapes - by Andrew Ferguson
- Ring Master - by Steve Nash
- The Morning After - by P.A. MORBID
- Lady Lightening - by Alex Sinclair
- like a river - by Bozena Intrator
- Visiting a War Museum - by Sofiul Azam
- Three Days - by Matthew Falk
- Volume XV, No. I - Spring 2009
- THE ALMOST SENSIBLE MADNESS OF LOSS - by Edward Lee
- Lowku - Haiku - by Adam Klimkiewicz
- monochromasy - by Paul W Hankins
- Poetry is sadness - Harry Calhoun
- Epidemic - by Josh Stewart
- trails of smoke - by Bob koshin Hanson
- Haiku - by Mandy Maxwell
- earthbound - by Andrew McCallum
- I Own Your Archives - by Paul Toth
- Why you should never wear mascara to a funeral - by Jessica Dyer
- Haiku - by Kyle Hemmings
- Green Candle Smoke - by Siobhan Pitchford
- Peach Cloche Hat - by Donal Mahoney
- After the Silence - by Christopher Reilley
- A Body of Work - By Ray Succre
- Buzzard Sky - by Marty Silverthorne
- In Here - by Kevin Craig
- Status - Piotr Pawlowski
- Cedar Swelter - by Josh Permenter
- All the Bridge We Imagine - William Doreski
- if everything - by David McLean
- The Oak Trees On Market St. - by Parrish Ravelli
- Village Idiot - by MJD Algera
- Now's the Chance - by Don Schaeffer
- Volume XIV, No. IV - Winter 2008-2009
- Ron Bayes - Featured Poet - Biographical Statement
- Scott Urban - Featured Poet - Biographical Statement
- BIRD IN HOUSE - By Scott Urban
- From the King of the World - by Parrish Ravelli
- THE WORK WE DO - By Ann Applegarth
- A FOCUS - By Ron Bayes
- My Daughter Lights Up - by Scott Urban
- DEAR BOY - by Ron Bayes
- Passing Landscape by Will Johnson
- Regret - by Joe Miller