Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty-year writer and the author of 12 published books of fiction and poetry and 5 stage plays. She was a winner in the Francis Ford Coppola Zoetrope Contest for the Novel (2003), and has been nominated 21 times for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and poetry. Her play ‘The Crooked Heart’ concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Another play, a dark comedy titled ‘Clandestine’ is making the rounds.  OFFICE a Novel was re-printed as a Second Edition. A new novel titled “HAIR OF A FALLEN ANGEL” is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Books, NYC. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review.
http://www.susantepper.com

Summer Sliding

By Susan Isla Tepper

Take a life
cutting it
into serving slices.
Don’t attempt to
make it come out
even.
There was a time when
summer sliding
into fall—
you stood outside
on the hill
dead leaves crunching
underfoot—
a forthcoming.
You felt afraid
though of what
couldn’t be defined.

Glenn Bowie is a published poet, lyricist, and photographer from the Boston area. He also owns and operates an elevator company that supplies custom-built elevators for clients from New England to Hollywood. Author of two poetry and photograph collections (Under the Weight of Whispers and Into the Thorns and Honey) on Big Table Publishing, he donates all profits from his books to various charities for the homeless and local animal shelters.