Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley   Maria Lisella, At the Hour of Now, Bordighera Press, April 2026, poetry Maria Lisella’s newest collection At the Hour of Now tells the unflinchingly honest story of ...

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled…

ALT: a statue of a tree with a man 's face coming out of it .

The diagnosis. The C9orf72 gene. The telling, the children, the mother. The hiking stick, the cane, the rolling walker. The lift chair, the gait belt, the ramps. The hospital bed. The power wheelchair...

NANCY HUGGETT For Better or for WorseI married the ocean, now life is a daily drowning. When the tide retreats, I lie beached, until I can push myself up to comb the wrack zone for treasure. Sun-bleac...