March & April 2020
Vol V No II
Not your ordinary poetry magazine!
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To those of you who have made donations, we give much thanks! We're working on expanding our horizons with the primary goal being to eventually be able to pay contributors — and have begun doing so with payment for two featured poems each month. - Vera Ignatowitsch