Poems by Martin Figura and Larry Kimmel

Spring Snow keeps falling though April’s begun.  The city is buried while we sleep in our beds and the council’s run out of molasses and grit. People move through the streets like hospital patients out for a smoke or a breath of fresh air,the onset of chilblains...

C. Albert begins Spring and Easter

I am delighted to welcome IS&T artist/poet C Albert in residence to begin our Spring and Easter feature….   In Waiting   *********   They Met on a Telephone Line                                                          He was common...

Esther Morgan talks to IS&T about her process

Nine QuestionsIn this series Ink Sweat & Tears talks to practicing writers about their process and craft.1. Where do you write? (do you have an office, room, bus or train journey that you find yourself and your writing? etc)I do have an office but oddly I hardly...

Two prose poems from Connor Blacksher

Hydrating the entire stationThank you to whoever broke up with the sky. Had I some cookie dough to feed it, I would. For now I’m going to celebrate the heartbreak of the heavens and the death of an individual. Footprints washed up in pavement flooded. Now worms...

Ira Lightman’s City Campus

City CampusTo make a square of glass in the corner of a windowgo to the corner, draw vertical and horizontallines from the bottom right corner of a square – set into the top left corner of the windowuntil the lines reach the opposite edge of the whole paneat the...