Stonecoast Review
The Literary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA
Poetry
Issue 21
London, 2016
By Sneha Subramanian Kanta
My first memory of London is rain from inside Heathrow cold air coming in every time someone… Read More
Maasweeseexay (Monument Mountain)
By Bonney Hartley
Thou face forget thy heart thy vision. Thou gaze on white villages swarming… Read More
Grade School Blues
By Derk Otsuji
I put olives on my finger tips—and made grapes of brine. I counted street lamps like beads of a rosary… Read More
Ms. Peters and the Thousand Paper Cranes
By Joanne Durham
After Ms. Peters’ purple dresses sagged on her frail frame, her cough interrupted each lilting phrase… Read More
We Are Raw
By Rishona Michael
We steal four filet mignons for every workday of the week. Except Sunday we eat out… Read More
Colloquy for the States — after Archibald MacLeish (1939)
By Nina Barufaldi
There’s talk, says Illinois There’s always talk, says Alaska There’s talk on the east wind, says Illinois… Read More
Crescent Shaped Dents in the Palms of My Hands
By Bonnie Markowski
christmas morning, 1968, Irish coffee at dinner. The aroma of roasted beans can’t mask that smell… Read More
This is the Place
By Z! Haukeness
This is the place where I understood magnolia trees mirrored the beauty on my insides. And… Read More
reader, i’m sorry if this image is now yours to carry too
By BEE LB
my mother’s on the phone with my brother who said he wrote me a letter but didn’t. i told her to ask him why. we’ll see what she says that… Read More
We Know That Our Emperors are Naked
By Mary Rohrer-Dann
Full moon. High tide. High seas. Pacific sweeps across the 101… Read More
The Rio Grande
By Lizeth De La Luz
Under water you are still . an iridescent trace of . corners pealed… Read More
Dear Moranda Smith
By Richard Hamilton
The last fretful hour mending poems. It is my job to see a blade of grass… Read More
