Leah Maines has served as the senior editor for Finishing Line Press since she took over the press in 2002. She has edited over 550 poetry collections, including several award-winning titles.
Here is my response to Red Room's topic of the week: "My 'Not So' Favorite Bookstore Moment" After Three Years, Again YouI kept your comforterPungent with youUntil the scent became distortedThen disappeared with washingAfter two yearsI bought a duvet to cover my bit of youIn flowers To bury you in a bed of ...
Well, friends, after a long time of no writing, I finally have decided to submit my work again. The good news: I have two poems published today in the new online mag mediterranean.nu. After a Day of Sailing faltering we fallto find ourselves inthis dark roommy legs lockedaround your waistas you ask meto do soI do butwe both knowneither of us is readyfor this awkward momentof ...
It’s not every day that I get to attend the Emmy awards gala, so when my author Susanna Rich gave me the good news that she had been nominated for an Emmy award and I was invited to attend the gala, I nearly fainted! Wow!!! How did this happen? Well, a filmmaker had read one of Susanna’s poems in a magazine and he liked it (we ended up publishing this same poem in Susanna's new book The ...
