Poems from: Elizabeth Raby, “Beneath Green Rain” (Vacpoetry: Purple Flag Press, 2015), Chera Hammons. “The Traveler’s Guide to Bomb City” (Vacpoetry: Purple Flag Press, 2017), Ofelia Zepeda, “Where Clouds Are Formed” (Arizona UP, 2008), Julie Chappell, “As I Pirouette Away” (Turning Plow Press, 2021), Maureen DuRant, “Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border” (Press 53, 2020), Maryann Hurtt, “Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices” (Turning Plow Press, 2021), Kai Coggin, “Mining for Stardust” (Flower Song Press, 2021), Roxana Cazan, “Tethered to the Unexpected: Poetry about Illness” (mail Alien Buddha Press, 2021)