Julia’s Monsters

Julia’s Monsters

by | Jan 13, 2014 | Spotlight

  What goes down must come up. For a poet with a food disorder, controlling the line is sometimes an art, and sometimes a coping mechanism. Contributor Julia Wendell descends from a long line of psychological misfits which include Jane Austen, Radclyffe Hall, and...
Against Theme

Against Theme

by | Jan 6, 2014 | from the editors, Spotlight

If all we do is take a few words from each author then we’ve made the world a better place. From short story writer Shannon Cain I took arithmetic. I remember feeling appalled as she critiqued a colleague’s lecture about the difference between fiction and nonfiction....
Mary Ellen Redmond

Mary Ellen Redmond

by | Dec 28, 2013 | Spotlight

Here I am, settling fifty or so submissions from the faithful before next month’s open reading period, reading for a new summer issue in the midst of winter, reading from earnest stacks of poems and stories and postings from the Rialto. Why do I read? I read from the...
Rascal Paul

Rascal Paul

by | Dec 19, 2013 | Spotlight

You’d think Paul Hostovsky were a nice boy since Santa puts so many presents under his poetry. There’s a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Anthologies, and six appearances on Verse Daily. If that doesn’t put some Norman in your Rockwell, Garrison...