Moon City Press

Last day to enter the 2026 Moon City Press Moon City Poetry Award competition!

Moon City Press - The 2026 Moon City Poetry Award • The Moon City Poetry Award is for an original collection of poems written in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual poems in the collection may be published in periodicals or may have appeared in a chapbook, but poems should not be previously published in full-length manuscr...

Happy Thursday! Here's a new micro from Michelle Ross, newly posted at The Citron Review:

https://citronreview.com/2026/04/29/childhood/?fbclid=IwZnRzaASNJsFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe7ksaHYuiU2OMFdF_jN3WCaVoQxZ4J2eX6ExhsX0XmypOEPeHZQ8r-INp3Ow_aem_ZzZvpWrWjG8xppigxPoHcg

Childhood by Michelle Ross   Woods in early morning. No sunrise—only a slow bleaching. Ghostly glow of X-rayed bones. The wind coughs. Trees rattle and hiss. Something stirring in the leaves. Something …