by Laura Neal | Jan 12, 2022
Baptized at ten given too soon a clean heart a shiny new spirit so much left of me to make filthy. When I turned teenager my mother tells me to wash it well not to walk around in the world humming. Tells me drink it girl, it tastes the same when it’s cold. I’ve...
by Linda Trice | Jan 4, 2022
MAUDE CLARK SUSPECTED THAT HER HUSBAND DWAYNE WAS PLANNING TO divorce her and marry his lawyer, Imani Harrison. Why, only God knew. True, Imani was younger, at least ten years younger than Maude most likely, but that’s where her assets ended. Imani herself had...
by Renoir Gaither | Aug 4, 2021
The keyboard sounds like a mouse’sfootsteps when he taps, middle fingerof his right hand bent, unable to touchflesh against palm. Walking to relievehimself at night, one eye discernsa mushroom pillow; the other, a pileof dirty clothes. The sprouted, rottingalphabet...
by The Editors | May 20, 2021
The GMR is thrilled to announce that Stephen Cramer will be joining us as Assistant Poetry Editor. We look forward to working even more closely with Stephen. We also wanted to celebrate the publication of Stephen’s most recent book, The Disintegration Loops. A few...
by Anne Graue | Feb 23, 2021
Congratulations to GMR contributor Anne Graue whose new poetry Full and Plum-Colored Velvet was published in late 2020 by Woodsley Press. Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press,...
by The Editors | Aug 30, 2020
GMR is happy to announce the addition of Lupe Mendez as our new Contributing Poetry Editor! Poet, teacher, and activist Lupe Mendez is the author of the poetry collection Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the Texas...
