Contents (view Concise Listing)

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