G W Colkitto says no knife is necessary

NO KNIFE NEEDEDNo knife needed to cut and slash,or heated iron to burn the flesh,in memory’s blast the mind recoiled.Flayed beneath history’s lash,recall loss and failure and fash     about the past. Life is uncoiled,shredded, no knife needed.* G W...

Abi Wyatt is riding the coat-tails of summer

Ensign I heard your voiceas it hitched a rideon the coat-tailsof summer. At its slow inflectiona world unfurled,bobbed likea painted sail. I cast off nowin fear of the edgeand in expectationof New England. Fathomed or landedon this squall’s fair...

The IS&T 2009 anthology is now available

The 2009 Ink Sweat & Tears anthology is now available. In fact it should have been available weeks ago but IS&T knuckle-dragging publisher Charles Christian couldn't get his act together earlier. (Hey, who writes this stuff? Oh, yes, I do… CC) The...