Ana Hein is an undergraduate student at Emerson College pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing with minors in Comedy Writing and Performance and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work has been featured in Concrete, Gauge, Emerson College’s Undergraduate Students for Publishing blog, Black Swan, and the Appley 2018 Rising Stars Collection and has won multiple Editor’s Choice Awards from Teen Ink Magazine. She can usually be found buying too many books, singing loudly, wearing red lipstick, complaining about the weather, staring into the void, and generally being very dramatic.
Kurt Westley
blind spot
by the naked eye it wasn’t a classic ’67 Mustang or Khrushchev’s ‘trash heap of history’
overtaking yet every fearful premonition simply hurtled into heedless horizon chasing
but an itchy angel wing jittered my default option again towards the omnipresent mirror
a final look back no one’s there look ahead no one’s there only a thumb-a-ride Reaper
sightless but still scavenging ‘visions’ while swinging a glaring scythe into a blinding sunset
Kurt Westley's work has appeared in Acorn, Cabildo Quarterly Online, and Modern Haiku. His works include Basho’s Cormorant (Red Bird Chapbooks; 2013), sleeping bear (Red Moon Press; 2015), and ostrich stride (Red Moon Press; 2019).