Julia Ludewig is a learner, teacher, and traveler with hearts on two continents. She teaches German and Environmental Humanities at a small liberal-arts college in Pennsylvania. In both her academic and her poetic life, writing is her way of thinking with a keyboard. When she is not writing, she dabbles in Salsa and Bachata dancing. She is oddly infatuated with…
Daniel Biegelson is the author of the book of being neighbors (Ricochet Editions) and the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light (VERSE). Daniel serves as Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Northwest Missouri State University as well as an editor for The Laurel Review. Daniel’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Diagram, Grist, Interim, Lana Turner, & The Spectacle, among other places. Find him at danielbiegleson.com
One day a king was visited by a beggar, seeking enough money to have food to eat. Now, ordinarily the king would have him beaten and thrown in jail or worse. But it so happened that the king had as a guest the king of a neighboring kingdom, and wished to appear generous before him. “Give this man five silver…