Here’s the moral of the story before it even begins: the youngest brother always wins. The princess always wins. The frog triumphs only if not a frog. The swallow may be dragged underground and still revive to fly away. The bare cupboard will reveal your heart’s desire, your secret fear. The ring you hold in … Continue reading Fairy Tale
by Laura Cherry
Laura Cherry is the author of the recent chapbook Two White Beds (Minerva Rising), the full-length collection Haunts (Cooper Dillon Books), and the chapbook What We Planted (Providence Athenaeum). She co-edited the anthology Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press). Her work has been published in journals including Los Angeles Review, Waterhouse Review, Tuesday: An Art Project, … Continue reading Laura Cherry
Congratulations to our Best of the Net-nominated poets! Our nominees are: Laura Cherry, “Fairy Tale” (17 – 4) Carmen Germain, “Wild Mind” (17 – 4) Ben Debus “So We Pooled Our Money and Went All of Us in a Car East towards Appalachia” (18 – 1) Yuko Taniguchi, “A Child Hibakusha” (18 – 1) Tina … Continue reading Best of the Net 2016 Nominees Announced
