In this issue, Laura Adrienne Brady uses ancient tales to tell the modern story of living with chronic disease in four poems beginning with “I Seek Healing in the Usual Places.”⠀
"Sick Gal Seeks Rare Elk Sighting or Mate" Essay in Hobart
Chronic illness already made dating hard. And then the pandemic arrived.
“I almost forgot—” my childhood friend interjected as we were wrapping up a phone call on a blustery September day. “I talked to Lindsey and she agrees that you don’t need to put a disclosure on your dating profile. You can just cross that bridge if you meet someone you like.”
Celebrating Ten Years of "Bone Nest!"
"Concessions" Poem in Sundress Anthology "A Body You Talk To"
"Hey Bianchi" Essay in Flagstaff Cycle-Zine
"Tyrni" Poem in Reckoning Press
"Windflower" Poem in EcoTheo Review
Excerpt:
Two Poems in Cold Mountain Review
Two Poems in Curios Magazine
Pink Stone Album + Book Released!
"Pebble Linings" essay published in The Rappahannock Review
"Out Back" essay published in Brevity
The Little Garden That Could
The city wants to tear up my garden.
By garden, I actually mean a young, thriving food forest. It’s so much more than annual vegetables. Rising up from the street, the terraced slope laced by wood-chipped paths explodes in a colorful array of raspberries, elderberries, currants, aronia berries, salal, strawberries, blueberries, and rhubarb. Mixed in, smaller beds of kale, summer squash, peas, and sunflowers make a brave stand in the varied terrain. Birds swoop in for kale seeds and bees buzz cheerfully amongst the borage flowers.