“She Reads Virgina Woolf”, a Poem by Ellaraine Lockie

We are pleased to present Ellaraine Lockie’s “She Reads Virginia Woolf”, the winning entry in the 2008 Skysaje Enterprises Poetry Contest. It is reprinted with permission. She Reads Virgina Woolf by Ellaraine Lockie As she slept he’d finger-walk all the way up her underarm Soft, like snow falling over the shoulder, ear, lips Sleep melted […]

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“To Mary Magdalen, with thanks”, a Poem by Vicki Goodfellow Duke

We are pleased to present “To Mary Magdalen, with thanks”. This poem won an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Utmost Christian Poetry Contest. It is reprinted with permission: To Mary Magdalen, with thanks by Vicki Goodfellow Duke savior of pretty girls        slammed into doors        bloodied by steel-toed        boots,        tripping in heels        through the night        retching […]

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Springfield Republican: “Man fatally shot inside strip bar”

The print edition of today’s Springfield Republican reports: …a 22-year-old man was shot in the head while sitting at the bar at the Mardi Gras strip club downtown… Police said Colon [the victim] had been involved in a “verbal and physical altercation with several other subjects” in the Mardi Gras about 20 minutes prior to […]

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