When We Walk – by C Haynsworth
When we walk, the world unfurls in pinks, greens, and blues. You and I and sky far from the gray of your apartment, the glare of the screen. Bad news turns to birdsong once we’re outside. I feel sun...
Excerpt from Aphelion by Denise Rue
The following poem appears in our Spring/Summer 2019 issue. Purchase this issue in print or digital format to read the other poems, stories, essays and interviews that were featured in this issue. I searched all...
Excerpt from The Garden at Sunset by C.W. Buckley
The following poem appears in our Spring/Summer 2018 issue. Purchase this issue in print or digital format to read the rest of Christopher’s poem and more. The man raised hard-packed earth in a patch around...
Tif on Faith by Siham Karami
The following Tif on Faith was featured in our Fall/Winter 2019 issue. While a "tiff" is defined as a "petty argument", a "Tif" is anything but petty--it is a short exploration of a deeply meaningful...
Excerpt from Broken Future by Nicholas Samaras
The following poem appears in our Fall/Winter 2019 issue. Purchase this single issue in print or digital format. How to fix what hasn’t come yet?
Start with the anguish of the present.
Refuse to participate in what drags us
further down. Assemble...
Excerpt from Winding Time by Stephen Kiernan
This short story appears in our Spring/Summer 2019 issue. The entire issue is available for purchase in print or digital format. On Sundays I wind the clock and it is not simple. In fact the...
Excerpt from The Wall by Paul Genega
The following poem appears in our Fall/Winter 2019 issue. Purchase this single issue in print or digital format to read the rest of Paul’s poem and more! There’s the remnant of a wall in the woods
I like to walk...
Excerpt from review of Jane Ebihara’s A Reminder of Hunger and Wings
The following review by Tiferet Poetry Editor Adele Kenny of Jane Ebihara's A Reminder of Hunger and Wings appears in our Fall/Winter 2019 issue. Purchase this single issue in print or digital format to read the rest of Adele’s review...
Excerpt from Technological Daffodils by Michelle Cameron
The following poem appears in our Spring/Summer 2019 issue. The entire issue is available in print or digital format. With one click
Wordsworth eviscerates
his inner eye able to view
his daffodils whenever on Facebook
Instagram and there they’d be perfect
preserved unformed by poetry
-- MICHELLE CAMERON’S The...
Excerpt from Without Longing, How to Make Beautiful the Song? by Marie Elizabeth Mali
The following poem appears in our Fall/Winter 2018 issue. The single issue is available for purchase in print or digital format. Anywhere you drop the needle on my heart’s record
it lands on absence, a song with longing for a...