This is the Winter 2013 edition of the poetry magazine. We have been in publication since 1995. We publish original poetry from poets locally and around the globe. Many of our poets have appeared more than once various editions of the magazine that have been published over the years. Our Featured Poet for this issue is Scott Urban: Scott has three poems titled Decryption, The Hummingbird Poem and Flag at 2:30. Aside from Scott, we have at least twenty poets to showcase such as Marc Carver, William Doreski, Michael Brownstein, Patricia Wentling, Joe Farley, Abigail Wyatt, Christopher Reilley and Elnaz Rezaei Ghalechi. We would also like to welcome newcomers Sam Talley, Benjamin Blake and Samuel Luck to the Word Salad fold. Our Editors are Bruce Whealton, Jean Arthur Jones and MJD Algera. Bruce Whealton is the publisher, in addition to being one of the co-editors.