The voters have spoken! Congratulations to our two Best of the Month winners. In art, our Best of the Month award goes to Ryan Schultz’s digital painting “Moss Piglets”, and in literature we have the poem “Bildungsroman” by Crystal Hurd! Read more about their pieces below, and click on the links to view their work!
Read our newest poem, “There’s No Justice in Poetry” by Chanelle Whitaker, below.
There’s No Justice in Poetry
By Chanelle Whitaker
Black and blue veins pulse under a thin blanket of flesh
susceptible to tearing,
you see they aren’t completely dead,
occasionally being blessed with bursts of revival at your tender touch
but vulnerability is still the stitching holding them together
daggerlike tongues leave wounds quicker than they can be healed
by your underdogs
poetry is my own safe haven with the cruelest intentions of all
often bastardizing were I plea for redemption
I kneel before it when I need to remember only the thing I have to,
the thing that reminds me I’m not immortal,
you
Today begins the September Best of the Month competition! You can vote on your favorite literature and art published in October to help decide the winner of each category! Go to the Literature and Art page to view the pieces. Voting will end on Tuesday, October 7th. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, October 8th.
Read our newest poem “Tattoos” by Luana White below.
Tattoos
By Luana White
From a young age they told me not to get a tattoo.
It’ll be there forever, a permanent mistake I will tire of.
Little do they know, my body has already been marked permanently many times. A smile has been tattooed along my lips, that I hide behind every day. A secret that lurks behind every grin. But if you look close enough, you’ll see that it was never fully completed.
Check out our newest art piece, “Sunset at Lewis Lake” by Kyla Miller, below. Click on the piece to see it in better detail.
Sunset at Lewis Lake, by Kyla Miller
Read our newest poem, “The Pinnacle” by Taylor Knight, below.
The Pinnacle
Taylor Knight
Dirty plans, under handed, and over estimated
I find the lust of yesterdays inside my ultimatum
Clean your pistols in anticipation
For the storm brews like coin toss before the pinnacle
And when thunder rolls we all come
To the dead head of a nickel
Check out our newest art piece, “Moss Piglets” by Ryan Schultz. Click on the piece to see it in better detail.
Moss Piglets, by Ryan Schults
Read our newest poem, “The Everlasting Question” by Ashley Bond, below.
The Everlasting Question
Ashley Bond
“What do you want to be?”
A hidden groan rumbles inside me.
words lost on paper,
never read:
They sit and fade.
My mind flows,
in the ink of my pen
each line, a part of me.
Doctors and Lawyers boast,
their paychecks rule over me.
Money overthrows happiness.
Neon Ink 