Featured Friday | Meet Heather Derr-Smith

Heather Derr-Smith is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of three books of poetry, Each End of the World (Main Street Rag Press, Editor’s Choice Award 2005), The Bride Minaret (University of Akron Press, Editor’s Choice Award, 2008) and…

2 Poems | April Penn

How to Be a Daughter

Be quiet.
Do not express any unpleasant emotion.
Be sick,
but don’t tell anyone
about the pain.
Be impractical.
Don’t know anything about cars
or broken ceiling fans.
Live in the heat like it’s nothing.
Say yes.
Prefer your imaginary friends to…