I remember it first, before circumstance, / mother, house or sky–the unexpected / brilliance burned to the back of retinas.

Dana Holley Maloney is a native New Jerseyan who lives and writes in midcoast Maine. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, The Lake, Paterson Literary…

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The Reader Engages with the TextWhat luck when the pilot reports finding a shortcutso that a flight across the continent will take us under five hours.Have we found a fold in time and space? Perhap…

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Publications Until now, I have pursued publication in only a few short spurts of activity. I am presently immersed in the study of journals and of the poets who are published in them. I hope to kee…

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