#TPQ5: NAOMI ORTIZ
What will Naomi Ortiz, writer, poet, visual artist, facilitator, and the author of Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice (Reclamation), a guide on self-care for diverse communities, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: NAOMI ORTIZ
#TPQ5: CLIFFORD BROOKS
What will Clifford Brooks, Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mountain Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CLIFFORD BROOKS
POETRY IN THE NEW WORLD #1: ERNESTO CEPEDA
Let us use poetry to be the spark that lights up others who are consumed by darkness. We will be the flames, the candles and the fire, keep writing, reading, submitting and posting our work. Continue reading POETRY IN THE NEW WORLD #1: ERNESTO CEPEDA
#TPQ5: TYLER PUFPAFF
What will Tyler Pufpaff, Poetry Editor at Variant Literature, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: TYLER PUFPAFF
#TPQ5: MLA CHERNOFF
What will MLA Chernoff, a Jewish, non-binary pome machine, include in today’s #TPQ? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MLA CHERNOFF
#TPQ5: JULEIGH HOWARD-HOBSON
What will Juleigh Howard-Hobson, urban drop out, living off-grid in middle of rural nowhere where nothing can bother her, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JULEIGH HOWARD-HOBSON
it’s the TKO after 12 rounds at the bar. But you’re looking up from the mattress wondering where Dr. Bottle and Nurse Amphetamine were to throw in the towel. Continue reading REVIEW: ALCOHOLIC BETTY- ELISABETH HORAN (FLY ON THE WALL PRESS)
#TPQ5: JULIANNA MAY
What will Julianna May, a poet from Eastern, Pennsylvania, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JULIANNA MAY
WE HAVE THE GREATEST COMMUNITY
This is not a post about poetry. This is a post about reaching out to the community for help in a time of need. The outpouring of love and help thus far has been beyond overwhelming. We are humbled and grateful. Continue reading WE HAVE THE GREATEST COMMUNITY
POWER OF POETRY #97: CASEY BOTTONO
My truth rarely comes to the page easily, but it is always worth the work. Abandoning ‘perfection’ has brought me to a point where I can be utterly honest. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #97: CASEY BOTTONO
#TPQ5: SIMON MEDHURST
What will Simon Medhurst, Ramsgate poet and performer, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SIMON MEDHURST
#TPQ5: MARY JAIMES-SERRANO
What will Mary Jaimes-Serrano, who lives in Kansas with her family and writes poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MARY JAIMES-SERRANO
#TPQ5: CLARENCE CARVEL
What will Clarence Carvel, writer, poet and optimist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CLARENCE CARVEL
What will Melanie Janisse-Barlow, whose ongoing Poet Series, a self-curating/practopoietic series of portraits of Canadian poets, has reached 80 pieces and has gained national media coverage in Canada and the US, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MELANIE JANISSE-BARLOW
#TPQ5: DARBY LYONS
What will Darby Lyons, reader of poetry submissions for The Cincinnati Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DARBY LYONS
#TPQ5: RISA DENENBERG
What will Risa Dememberg, co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: RISA DENENBERG
#TPQ5: KENNING JP GARCIA
What will Diarist, Kenning JP García, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KENNING JP GARCIA
What will William Ward Butler, whose chapbook Life History is forthcoming from Ghost City Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: WILLIAM WARD BUTLER
What will Sean Singer, author of Discography (Yale University Press) and Honey & Smoke (Eyewear publishing), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SEAN SINGER
What will Magi Gibson author of the popular Wild Women of a Certain Age, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MAGI GIBSON
#TPQ5: NATALIE ANN HOLBOROW
What will Natalie Ann Holborow, a poet and blogger from Swansea, include in today’s #TPQ5? Continue reading #TPQ5: NATALIE ANN HOLBOROW
#TPQ5: EILEEN FARRELLY
What will Eileen Farrelly, musician and songwriter who can be found singing for beer in pubs around Glasgow, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: EILEEN FARRELLY
#TPQ5: AVALINA ROBIN HARVEY
What will Avalina Robin Harvey, award-winning journalist at The Toronto Star, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: AVALINA ROBIN HARVEY
REVIEW: POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM – NATALIE DIAZ (GRAYWOLF PRESS)
I have never encountered a writer more capable of balancing softness and strength. These poems are quiet and technical and precise, yet the speaker never feels weak or timid. Rather, there is an everpresent sense that the rage lingering just beneath the lines may bare its teeth. Continue reading REVIEW: POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM – NATALIE DIAZ (GRAYWOLF PRESS)
POWER OF POETRY #95: AMY SHIMSHON-SANTO
Aging has meant gaining and losing things. Two stolen bikes. Careers. Partners. A parent. Poetry never left. It shows no sign of weariness. It is eager and ready. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #95: AMY SHIMSHON-SANTO
#TPQ5: JENNA LYNCH
What will Jenna Lynch, whose first chapbook, The Mouth of Which You Are, from Finishing Line Press, was released November 2018, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JENNA LYNCH
#TPQ5: GABRIELLE GRACE HOGAN
What will Gabriella Grace Hogan, whose work has been published by the Academy of American Poets, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: GABRIELLE GRACE HOGAN
OPEN SUBMISSION: TPQ POETRY PAMPHLET SERIES #1
Submit your manuscript today! Continue reading OPEN SUBMISSION: TPQ POETRY PAMPHLET SERIES #1
#TPQ5: TEODORA LaLOVA
What will Teodora Lalova, Bulgarian author who currently lives in Brussels (Belgium), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: TEODORA LaLOVA
#TPQ5: JASON O’TOOLE
What will Jason O’Toole, author of Spear of Stars (2018) and Soulless Heavens (2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JASON O’TOOLE
#TPQ5: AMANDA CRUM
What will Amanda Crum, writer and artist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: AMANDA CRUM
POWER OF POETRY #94: JESSICA DRAKE-THOMAS
Poetry is far from dead or dying any time soon. Like all art forms, poetry adapts. It will endure, so long as poets exist to write it. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #94: JESSICA DRAKE-THOMAS
#TPQ5: DAVID WOJCIECHOWSKI
What will David Wojciechowski, author of Dreams I Never Told & Letters I Never Sent (Gold Wake Press), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DAVID WOJCIECHOWSKI
#TPQ5: MICHAEL CHIN
What will Michael Chin, whose third collection, The Long Way Home is forthcoming in 2020 from Cowboy Jamboree Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MICHAEL CHIN
What will Gloria Macher, Canadian Peruvian-born writer living in Montreal exploring social, political, ecological and existential themes that fuel our reflection on the human condition, include in today’s #TPQ5? Continue reading #TPQ5: GLORIA MACHER
POWER OF POETRY #93: TRAVIS CRAVEY:
These are human passions, after all, more than lust or greed or God: we want to connect. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #93: TRAVIS CRAVEY
#TPQ5: GLENIS G. REDMOND
What will Glenis Redmond, a nationally known touring teaching artist and a poet include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: GLENIS G. REDMOND
#TPQ5: KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ
What will KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ, a queer, experimental poet from northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ
What will Keith Welch, writer from Bloomington, Indiana where he works at the Indiana University Herman B Wells library, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KEITH A. WELCH
#TPQ5: CONYER CLAYTON
What will Conyer Clayton, whose latest chap, Trust Only the Beasts in the Water was published by above/ground press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CONYER CLAYTON
Today is Thursday, so I now call him “my suicide note,” which is shorthand for Friday’s “I willingly welcomed his dirty, burning, diesel-fueled torch into my home Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #91: HOKIS
I present as White, but I am of mixed race heritage. My mom is Italian-American, my father Mescalero Apache. I grew up hearing at home that I was never to think of myself as White, yet no one would ever see me as anything else. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #92: TONY BROWN
#TPQ5: RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS
What will Rhys Owain Williams, a writer from Swansea, Wales, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS
#TPQ5: KATIE MANNING
What will Katie Manning, founding editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KATIE MANNING
#TPQ5: NATASHA GRAHAM
What will Natascha Graham, artist, poet and writer of literary fiction, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: NATASHA GRAHAM
Poetry moves. It’s transformative, and that transformation can be a catalyst for what we choose to make of ourselves, our stories, and our passions. Poetry is a place we can learn about others and ourselves. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #90: JDG
It’s the way society sees itself but refuses to remedy anything. There are no roses growing here. This is sidewalk chalk guiding readers through each crack in the concrete. Continue reading REVIEW: GHOSTS IN THE REFLECTION – LETTERS TO ERIN – JAMES F. MILLER (FLY ON THE WALL PRESS)
What will Paige Bruckner, aspiring poet trying to balance creativity with school and social life, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: PAIGE BRUCKNER
What will Laura DiNovis Berry, poet and movie enthusiast, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: LAURA DiNOVIS BERRY
#TPQ5: JENNY MITCHELL
What will Jenny Mitchell, joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JENNY MITCHELL
I wrote for the joy of it, I wrote to make my mark on the world, I wrote because it bled out of me so quickly dropping it onto paper was the only responsible act I felt I could make. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #89: A. A. PARR
What will Jessica Drake-Thomas, whose newest book, Burials, is forthcoming from CLASH Books this year, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JESSICA L DRAKE-THOMAS
#TPQ5: YANIA PADILLA SIERRA
What will Yania, a bruja/writer/artist and suicide prevention SME, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: YANIA PADILLA SIERRA
#TPQ5: HALA ALYAN
What will Hala Alyan, Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: HALA ALYAN
#TPQ5: ADAM STEINER
What will Adam Steiner, author of Politics of The Asylum, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ADAM STEINER
What will Gareth Culshaw, whose second collection is out in June by Futurecycle called Shadows of Tryfan, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: GARETH CULSHAW
I turned to poetry to calm my encroaching anxiety, and I’ve turned to it since as a way to remind myself that I am a part of this world, that I exist within all the good and bad that it presents every day. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #88: ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ
#TPQ5: ELIZABETH MOURA
What will Elizabeth Moura, who lives in a converted factory and works with elders, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ELIZABETH MOURA
#TPQ5: MIRIAM CALLEJA
What will Miriam Calleja, bilingual poet and Maltese wordsmith, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MIRIAM CALLEJA
#TPQ5: AARON POOCHIGIAN
What will Aaron Poochigian, whose book “Manhattanite,” won the Able Muse Poetry Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: AARON POOCHIGIAN
What will David O’Nan, EiC of Fevers of the Mind Poetry & Art Digest, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DAVID L O’NAN
What will Melissa Eleftherion, writer, librarian, and visual artist, include in today’s #tpq? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MESLISSA ELEFTHERION
POWER OF POETRY #87: AMEE NASSRENE BROUMAND
To attempt to tell all the truth—the kind of truth that slumbers at noon and wakes at midnight—requires slantness. Slantness is the language of night. Slantness is a gap in the facade of mundanity, a way for reality in all of its mystery to seep through the boundaries of language. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #87: AMEE NASSERENE BROUMAND
What will Alison Jones, teacher, and writer with work published in a variety of places, from Poetry Ireland Review, Proletarian Poetry and The Interpreter’s House, to The Green Parent Magazine and The Guardian. Continue reading #TPQ5: ALI JONES
Brianna is an emerging Spanish to English translator, a film photographer, an itinerant traveler, and a sometimes poet. Continue reading #TPQ5: BRIANNA SALINAS
POWER OF POETRY #88: THOMAS STEWART
A word can muster a thousand thoughts. A poem can create a universe. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #86: THOMAS STEWART
#TPQ5: SOL
What will Sol Camarena Medina, a mad lesbian poet from Valencia, Spain who’s also a loud laugher and lover, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SOL
#TPQ5: THOMAS STEWART
What will Thomas Stewart, whose poetry pamphlet, ’empire of dirt’, was published by Red Squirrel Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: THOMAS STEWART
#TPQ5: CAITLIN SCARANO
What will Caitlin Scarano, whose debut collection, Do Not Bring Him Water, was released in Fall 2017 by Write Bloody, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CAITLIN SCARANO
#TPQ5: KATIE O’BRIEN
What will katie o’brien, poet, community worker, queer activist, and Netflix enthusiast, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KATIE O’BRIEN
#TPQ5: RAINE GEOGHEGAN
What will Raine Geoghegan, poet, writer, and Performance Coach, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: RAINE GEOGHEGAN
#TPQ5: KRISTEN SWANGUARIN
What will Kristen Swanguarin, collector of poetry books and animal teeth, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KRISTEN SWANGUARIN
POWER OF POETRY #85: WILL SCHMIT
The poem is an artifact. Art as fact in the face a world determined to ignore the contemplative plaintiff. To hold the pen lightly enough to allow perspective to shift is to be attentive to the ghosts of chance, challenge, and chagrin. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #85: WILL SCHMIT
#TPQ: SHANNON SANKEY
What will Shannon Sankey, author of We Ran Rapturous (The Atlas Review 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SHANNON SANKEY
#TPQ5: ILLY KOTZ
What will Illy Kotz, an English-Hungarian artist, writer and poet living in Bristol, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ILLY KOTZ
#TPQ5: STEVE KISTULENTZ
What will Steve Kistulentz, author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Mating Calls of the Dead (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: STEVE KISTULENTZ
#TPQ5: FLOSE BOURSIQUOT
What will Flose Boursiquot, a Haitian-born poet and writer, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: FLOSE BOURSIQUOT
POWER OF POETRY #84: BARTON SMOCK
You can’t catch a fish with the shadow of a bird. But you tried, right? You tried in that poem your friend wrote, the one where a stone ate a star. And is maybe still eating. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #84: BARTON SMOCK
#TPQ5: JOSHUA ROTHES
What will Joshua Rothes, editor/publisher of Sublunary Editions, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JOSHUA ROTHES
#TPQ5: Z.M. WISE
What will Z.M. Wise, Co-Editor at Transcendent Zero Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: Z.M. WISE
#TPQ5: CARLIE BLUME
What will Carlie Blume, a Vancouver, Canada born writer of poetry and fiction, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CARLIE BLUME
#TPQ5: SANDRA T
What will Sandra T, poet and storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SANDRA T
#TPQ5: OSCAR HOKEAH
What will Oscar Hokeah, author of the forthcoming novel Unsettled Between, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: OSCAR HOKEAH
POWER OF POETRY #83: KARI FLICKINGER
Poetry has turned me into a piece of broken technology, searching the horizon for symbols. It has estranged me from everyone I once loved, from every notion I ever thought to belong to. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #83: KARI FLICKINGER
REVIEW: HOMIE – DANEZ SMITH (GRAYWOLF PRESS)
These poems are beautiful and messy and surprising and honest; they are everything a storied friendship is. Continue reading REVIEW: HOMIE – DANEZ SMITH (GRAYWOLF PRESS)
#TPQ5: FRAN-CLAIRE KENNEY
What will Fran-Claire Kenney, Queer writer, filmmaker, and student, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: FRAN-CLAIRE KENNEY
#TPQ5: CHRISTINA THATCHER
What will Christina Thatcher, Creative Writing Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHRISTINA THATCHER
POWER OF POETRY #82: MDSHall
We are soothsayers and truthsayers; warriors armed with words to be placed into action; protectors of the Univearth in search of the multiverse… Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #82: MDSHall
What will A. Martine, a trilingual writer, musician and artist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: AICHA MARTINE THIAM
What will Sara Pisak, Contributing Editor at Helen: A Literary Magazine and Staff Reviewer at Glass Poetry Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SARA PISAK
The janitors clean up the mess left from cheers, jeers, and broken hearts. The lights go out. You say goodbye to the players, loved ones, enemies, and continue with the game of life. As long as the ball keeps bouncing, life will continue. Continue reading REVIEW: DISTANCE TRAVELED – MICHAEL CHIN (BENT WINDOW BOOKS)
What will SK Grout, author of the micro chapbook “to be female is to be interrogated”, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SK GROUT
What will miss macross, multigenre writer who enjoys watching mecha and taking naps, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MISS MACROSS
#TPQ5: ANNE GRAUE
What will Anne Graue, author of a chapbook, Fig Tree in Winter, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ANNE GRAUE
What will Amanda Earl, managing editor of Bywords.ca, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: AMANDA EARL
They are our pain. Our love. Our fight through relationships when we can’t do it ourselves. They need food and water and shelter but don’t always have that option – even if they’ve been there for years. Continue reading REVIEW: HOW MY CAT SAVED MY LIFE AND OTHER POEMS – JULIETTE SEBOCK (BOTTLECAP PRESS)
#TPQ5: KEITH MARK GABOURY
What will Keith Mark Gaboury, whose work appears in Poetry Quarterly and New Millennium Writings, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KEITH MARK GABOURY
POWER OF POETRY #80: LAUREN BRAZEAL
Her words pressed onto my consciousness with the immediacy of a blade to the throat, “It is not your right to feel powerless. Better people than you were powerless.” Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #81: LAUREN BRAZEAL
#TPQ5: JANNA GRACE
What will Janna Grace, editor of Lamplit Underground, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JANNA GRACE
What will Deirdre Fagan, a reviewer for Orange Blossom Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DEIRDRE FAGAN
What will Steven Alvarez, author of The Codex Mojaodicus, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: STEVEN ALVAREZ
It’s who we are when least expected. It’s the big feelings we can’t explain. It’s the reason we cower in the dark. It’s the reason we raise our voices to those we are said to love. It’s the reason some loves end or begin or don’t. Continue reading REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL & FULL OF MONSTERS – COURTNEY LeBLANC (VEGETARIAN ALCOHOLIC PRESS)
#TPQ5: DONNA VORREYER
What will Donna Vorreyer, author of Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DONNA VORREYER
#TPQ5: JAKE WILD HALL
What will Jake Wild Hall, one half of Bad Betty Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JAKE WILD HALL
THE POWER OF POETRY #80: STEPHEN FURLONG
He only stopped when he recognized his shoe was untied. He held such reverence for the laces and he asked us how we tied our shoes. Continue reading THE POWER OF POETRY #80: STEPHEN FURLONG
Most of all, it’s about when body meets the inside of the body because the outside just doesn’t make sense anymore. It’s when space feels like a metaphor for a much larger universe, and you wish for a black hole within which to hide. Continue reading REVIEW: LITTLE ENVELOPE OF EARTH CONDITIONS – CORI A. WINROCK (ALICE JAMES BOOKS)
#TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER MILES
What will Christopher Miles, whose first book of poems, Armor & Ornament, was published this fall, include in today’s #TPQ? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER MILES
#TPQ5: CHLOE VICTORIA GORMAN
What will Chloe Gorman, copywriter, poet & aspiring author, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHLOE VICTORIA GORMAN
#TPQ5: KRISTOPHER BIERNATSKY
What will Kristopher Biernatsky, founder of Dink Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KRISTOPHER BIERNATSKY
#TPQ5: CLARE E. POTTER
What will clare e. potter, a poet who is lucky to collaborate with other inspiring artists, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CLARE E. POTTER
#TPQ5: HEATHER SWEENEY
What will Heather Sweeney, poet and visual artist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: HEATHER SWEENEY
#TPQ5: CAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas, ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a seven-time Best of the Net nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS
POWER OF POETRY #79: VENUS DAVIS
I knew that writing wasn’t about being the best – it’s about expressing yourself and being happy with what you’ve written. It’s not a chance for validation. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #79: VENUS DAVIS
#TPQ5: ERIK-JOHN FUHRER
What will Erik Fuhrer, author of every time you die (Alien Buddha Press), include in today’s#TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ERIK-JOHN FUHRER
REVIEW: BOAT BURNED – KELLY GRACE THOMAS (YESYES BOOKS)
I found myself walking away from it often, not out of discontent but out of a need to process the full brunt of the emotions laid bare by the author. Continue reading REVIEW: BOAT BURNED – KELLY GRACE THOMAS (YESYES BOOKS)
#TPQ5: GALE MARIE THOMPSON
What will Gale Marie Thompson, author of Helen or My Hunger (YesYes Books, 2020), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: GALE MARIE THOMPSON
POWER OF POETRY #77: G.E. SCHWARTZ
And with that light poetry has the power to usher us into a brave new world, filling our senses with the energy of creation where every bird, tree, branch, and blossom vibrates as if by immance. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #78: G.E. SCHWARTZ
#TPQ5: DAVID MARTIN
What will David Martin, organizer for the Single Onion Poetry Series, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside Continue reading #TPQ5: DAVID MARTIN
#TPQ5: LAURA WAINWRIGHT
What will Laura Wainwright, author of a book of literary criticism, New Territories in Modernism: Anglophone Welsh Writing 1930-1949, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: LAURA WAINWRIGHT
#TPQ5: SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN
What will Sue William Silverman, who teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN
POWER OF POETRY #77: CHRISTINA CIUFO
Each poetic word, each lyrical line, each tone evoked and each enchanting rhyme within a poem ignites the orange-golden flames within the recesses of our minds and flickers its’ illuminating light behind our eyes. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #77: CHRISTINA CIUFO
#TPQ5: LAUREN LICONA
What will Lauren Licona, Latinx poet based in Boston, MA, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: LAUREN LICONA
#TPQ5: JULIO ENRIQUEZ-ORNELAS
What will Julio Enriquez-Ornelas, Assistant Professor at Millikin University, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JULIO ENRIQUEZ-ORNELAS
#TPQ5: DAVE HOUSLEY
What will Dave Housley, author of This Darkness Got to Give, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DAVE HOUSLEY
#TPQ5: TINA MOZELLE BRAZIEL
What will Tina Mozelle Braziel, awarded the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: TINA MOZELLE BRAZIEL
REVIEW: BECOMING THE BRONZE IDOL – RITA MOOKERJEE (BONE & INK PRESS)
This collection helps readjust the way we look at our world and showing that the first step in fixing something broken is to recognize that it needs to be fixed in the first place. Continue reading REVIEW: BECOMING THE BRONZE IDOL – RITA MOOKERJEE (BONE & INK PRESS)
#TPQ5: CHARLENE ELSBY
What will Charlene Elsby, Philosophy Program Director and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Fort Wayne, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHARLENE ELSBY
#TPQ5: KATIE RIEGEL
What will Katherine Riegel, author of Love Songs from the End of the World (Main Street Rag 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KATIE RIEGEL
#TPQ5: TAYLOR BANKS
What will Taylor Banks, MFA candidate at Stetson University, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: TAYLOR BANKS
POWER OF POETRY #76: TAMARA BURROSS GRISANTI
Entering that space of creation is the only type of churchgoing that has ever spoken to me. It is paying tribute to what I know of the sacred, it is the only way I know how to be prayerful. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #76: TAMARA BURROSS GRISANTI
Paying for it again felt dirty. I didn’t want to. Didn’t mean to. Tried so hard to just move along, but my fingers edged in that direction, teased at where they wanted to be. And I gave in. Closed my eyes, relaxed. Took out my debit card, and gave into the demons. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY: EDITOR’S EDITION – CHRIS MARGOLIN
#TPQ5: ADAM J. GELLINGS
What will Adam J. Gellings, poet and instructor from Columbus, Ohio, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ADAM J. GELLINGS
#TPQ5: MALCOLM TARIQ
What will Malcolm Tariq, author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf Press, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MALCOLM TARIQ
#TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER SOTO
What will Christopher Soto, a Los Angeles poet, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER SOTO
POWER OF POETRY #74: URNA BOSE
One can’t quite put a firm, decisive finger on when, where and how poetry collides, mingles, smudges and spills over into our lives Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #74: URNA BOSE
REVIEW: THE WHIMSY OF DANK JU-JU – SASCHA AURORA AKHTAR
Magic is broken unless we understand the trick or allow ourselves to suspend our disbelief and just know that everything is taken care of, and that we are okay. Continue reading REVIEW: THE WHIMSY OF DANK JU-JU – SASCHA AURORA AKHTAR
This is not a guide toward love, light, and inspiration. This is not a tribute to finding God through death. This is looking at Death, and letting them know that while it might be a minute, you’ll leave a light on. Continue reading REVIEW: EMPIRE OF DIRT – THOMAS STEWART (RED SQUIRREL PRESS)
#TPQ5: REBECCA IRENE
What will Rebecca Irene, Poetry Editor for The Maine Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: REBECCA IRENE
#TPQ5: JEFF PEARSON
What will Jeff Pearson, an advocate for people with mental illness, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JEFF PEARSON
POWER OF POETRY #73: JOSEPH RATHGEBER
Poets excise words, omit and elide them. They break lines. Might as well break pane-glass windows. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #73: JOSEPH RATHGEBER
#TPQ5: ERIC LOCHRIDGE
What will Eric Lochridge, author of three poetry chapbooks, include in tiara #TPQ5? Find our inside!
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#TPQ5: RAZIELLE AIGEN
What will Razielle Aigen, author of, Light Waves The Leaves (above/ground press 2020), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: RAZIELLE AIGEN
#TPQ5: BETH LONGMAN
What will Beth Longman, founder and co-editor of Re-Side magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: BETH LONGMAN
#TPQ5: DAN KNAUSS
What will Dan Knauss, who writes, edits, and tries to perform acts of humane, open-source webcraft, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DAN KNAUSS
#TPQ5: MICHAEL McGILL
What will Michael McGill, a UK poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MICHAEL McGILL
#TPQ5: BEE WALSH
What will Bee Walsh, author of Manning Up (West 44 Books), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: BEE WALSH
#TPQ5: CHRISTINA CIUFO
What will Christina Ciufo, a passionate writer, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
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It is not just a book of confessions, but of acceptance that we can be beautiful and flawed and problematic and good, that the only thing we ought to require of ourselves is the permission to be fully human. Buddy no longer apologizes for fucking things up. Continue reading REVIEW: A CHOIR OF HONEST KILLERS – BUDDY WAKEFIELD (WRITE BLOODY PUBLISHING)
REVIEW: A LIVE THING, CLINGING WITH MANY TEETH – KOLLEEN CARNEY HOEPFNER (SPOOKY GIRLFRIEND PRESS)
We’re shown a woman who has to come to terms with pain and discomfort being her new reality. And then the idea of change is more frightening than her continued torture. Continue reading REVIEW: A LIVE THING, CLINGING WITH MANY TEETH – KOLLEEN CARNEY HOEPFNER (SPOOKY GIRLFRIEND PRESS)
#TPQ5: WILL SCHMIT
What will Will Schmit, author of Head Lines A Sixty Day Guide to Personal Psalmistry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: WILL SCHMIT
