New Poems in the Nest
“who gathered these and why / pursue a form that would be razed / by noon." from “Sand Mermaid” By Maya Bernstein
“The sky looks uninspired / when I plead with it. / I want to see the planets / my father showed me."
from “Inland” By Michael Juliani
New Story in the Nest by Olivia Fantini
“It is too soon to test. We wait. The bleeding will stop or it won’t, and then we will
know.” From “implantation bleeding”
New Poems in the Nest by Kuhu Joshi
“Unlike Ganga and Yamuna, you seemed to have / no role. In you, my grandmothers drowned / who they could be.”
From Letter to Saraswati
“What I wanted to know was, / are you lonely? Do you have enough / family?”
From Spell to Call on My Future Family
New Interview in the Nest with Carlie Hoffman
“For me, poetry is devotional, and the process is deeply private. I see poetry as a way of being in the world, attuned to the ebbs and flows of daily life.” From Carlie Hoffman
"Like Broken Glass"
A Flash Contest Honorable Mention
“It was the broken glass that took my husband’s life. That was all it was, just a little piece of broken glass from an old syringe, slicing through his palm during our morning search through the recyclables.” By Madeline Rosales