- Gene Hyde – Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi
Poet Gene Hyde meditates on the transcendence of a day's collapse into dusk with his "Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi".
- Mark J. Mitchell – Lazy Afternoon Poem
Longtime San Francisco-based poet Mark J. Mitchell eases readers into the warm heavy heart of summer with his "Lazy Afternoon Poem".
- A Year of Kō: 10th Sekki
10th Sekki poems by JOSPEH PALMER, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
- Erica Miriam Fabri – The Bride and the Wolf
Brooklyn poet Erica Miriam Fabri presents a dialogue of love, loss, and acceptance in her dramatic and melancholic "The Bride and the Wolf".
- Francis Weeks – Unfinished
In five brief lines, Francis Weeks' "Unfinished" has encompassed life, death, and the endless continuation of life.
