Contents (view Concise Listing)

• i • Introduction (Poetry Showcase: Volume VII) • essay by Stephanie M. Wytovich
• iii • Notes from the Judges (Poetry Showcase: Volume VII) • essay by Gwendolyn Kiste
• iv • Notes from the Judges (Poetry Showcase: Volume VII) • essay by Carina Bissett
• 3 • When First You Wooed Me • poem by Gerri Leen
• 5 • Are Monsters Born This Way • poem by Jessica Stevens
• 7 • I Am Emptiness • poem by Chad Stroup
• 9 • I Am the Corruption • poem by Stephanie Ellis
• 11 • Caligari • poem by Kelly Robinson
• 13 • Riding the Exhale • poem by Angela Yuriko Smith
• 15 • Blood, Brain • poem by Donna Lynch
• 16 • Monsters Bleed • poem by Natching T. Kassa
• 18 • Smile • poem by Jordan Shiveley
• 20 • Shades of Domesticity • poem by Sumiko Saulson
• 22 • Call the CCC, Your Psychic Repair Team • poem by Donna J. W. Munro
• 24 • Fairyglass Reflections • poem by Miriam H. Harrison
• 26 • Shatter • poem by K. P. Kulski
• 28 • My Grandmother's Mirror • poem by Garrett Boatman
• 29 • Curtains • poem by Michael A. Arnzen [as by Michael Arnzen]
• 31 • Haunted • poem by Christina Sng
• 33 • The Line • (2020) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 34 • The High Woman of Lowland Morgue • poem by David E. Cowen
• 35 • The Midnight Game • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 37 • Haunted Basin • poem by Roni Rae Stinger
• 38 • Transubstantiation • poem by Loren Rhoads
• 40 • Leaving Home • poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 41 • Walking Sam • poem by Owl Goingback
• 42 • Crossroads Conjure • poem by Kerri-Leigh Grady
• 44 • Sunset in Hungary • poem by Kendall Krantz
• 46 • Ghost Walk (Nirgal Vallism, Mars) • poem by Ann K. Schwader
• 47 • The Witch Who Eats Your Children • poem by Ingrid L. Taylor
• 48 • Mother Yolk • poem by Sarah Read
• 49 • Summoning Spell: Persephone at the Gates of Winter • poem by Saba Syed Razvi
• 51 • They Slumber • poem by Ted James Glenn
• 53 • The Metallurgist's Dream • poem by Colleen Anderson
• 55 • Red, Red, Red • poem by Annie Neugebauer
• 57 • Dementia • poem by Pamela K. Kinney
• 59 • The Siege • poem by Kyla Ward [as by Kyla Lee Ward]
• 61 • It Feels Like Drowning • poem by Terrie Leigh Relf
• 62 • Dance • poem by R. Payne Cabeen [as by Robert Payne Cabeen]
• 64 • Her Heart That Flames Would Not Devour • poem by Ashley Dioses
• 66 • We'll Live Through This • poem by Lisa Morton
• 67 • Brotherhood • poem by Marge Simon
• 68 • Arachnid • poem by Michael Bailey
• 70 • La Fille Inconnue de la Monde • poem by Janna Grace
• 72 • Lullaby for Imminently Murdered Children • poem by Mercedes M. Yardley
• 74 • Distorted Lies • poem by R. J. Joseph
• 76 • Leisureville • poem by G. O. Clark
• 78 • Orange • poem by Alexander P. Garza
• 79 • Retourne • poem by Lee Murray
• 80 • The Crows Belonged to Me • poem by Corey Niles
• 82 • People Trees • poem by Joanna Parypinski
• 84 • Throat Stars • poem by Sara Tantlinger
• 85 • The End of the World • poem by John Claude Smith