REVIEW: REVENGE BODY – RACHEL WILEY (BUTTON POETRY)
May 24, 2022
These poems rip at the meat, bone, and marrow of aspects of the institution that has settled in the hearts and minds of our societal zeitgeist. – Melissa Ferrer
REPLAYS: WAVES – RUSS
May 24, 2022
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed and I just need to breathe
Inhale exhale put my mind at ease
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: THE TREES WITNESS EVERYTHING – VICTORIA CHANG (COPPER CANYON PRESS)
May 23, 2022
Each section speaks to a specific season, emphasizing the passage of time and its effect on our understanding of the world around us. – Ronnie K. Stephens
REVIEW: PS – PENN KEMP & SHARON THESEN (GAP RIOT PRESS)
May 19, 2022
Perhaps we have all, as in the poem, lost someone and looked up, perceived heaven, and asked for a sign, a response, but were left only in our wonder. – Cait L. Young
REPLAYS: N95 BY KENDRICK LAMAR
May 17, 2022
Does drained looked good on me?
The pressures of life begin to sink in
And it’s like someone left the water running
Washing ourselves of the sins
But it feels like I’m taking a ho bath
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: THE HURTING KIND – ADA LIMÓN (MILKWEED EDITIONS)
May 16, 2022
If I was going to try and convince someone that poetry is our most important verbal art, I would start with The Hurting Kind. – Ronnie K. Stephens
REPLAYS: THERAPY MUSIC BY LOGIC & RUSS
May 10, 2022
The way the chips have fallen
Lays simple and plain
I have a duality of someone’s success is being someone else’s pain
– Reggie Johnson
REPLAYS: HONEST BY JUSTIN BIEBER & DON TOLIVER
May 3, 2022
Gotta be
Honest
My attitude
The fondest
Holding back?
Nothing’s promised
Sleeping on me
I’m an alarmist
– Reggie Johnson
TALK TO ME: ALEAH DYE
April 27, 2022
I think the brevity comes somewhat from the fact that I see this glow, this halo, around my intimacy so clearly. I see it, I feel it, I say it. And that’s that. It comes (ah, another pun!) easy. – Aleah Dye
REPLAYS: BE FORREAL BY BLXST
April 26, 2022
For me it’s sink or swim
Too many people I extended branches
And gone out on a limb
The switch up is contagious
Many do it on a whim
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: WHAT IS OTHERWISE INFINITE – BIANCA STONE (TIN HOUSE PRESS)
April 26, 2022
These are poems that do not lend themselves to passive reading, but rather demand deep internal reflection and renewed engagement with the most basic, unanswerable questions of human existence. – Ronnie K. Stephens
REVIEW: A PRAYER FOR A NON-RELIGIOUS AUTISTIC – LUCAS SCHEELK (MASON JAR PRESS)
April 21, 2022
Scheelk offers first-hand accounts of the effects of misdiagnosis, queer identity, and the intersections of these as an autistic person. – Caitie L. Young
SPEAK FREELY: NATIONAL POETRY MONTH EDITION
April 20, 2022
This month, I’m sharing some of my favorite pedagogical practices to introduce during National Poetry Month, as well as some of the poems I return to in my classes year after year. – Ronnie K. Stephens
REPLAYS: SAY MY NAME – FIVIO FOREIGN, QUEEN NAIJA & COI LERAY
April 19, 2022
Don’t give me material
If you’re reading this it’s too late
Don’t end up becoming one of my mistakes
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: THE BODY MYTH – HANNAH LAND (THE HUNGER JOURNAL)
April 19, 2022
The Body Myth (The Hunger Journal) by Hannah Land is beauty in words, harmonic sounds and striking imagery, all to narrate an all too familiar painful story. – Valentina Lindardi
TPQ20: S2EP15 – COURTNEY LeBLANC
April 18, 2022
Join Chris in a one-on-one with EiC of Riot in Your Throat Press and author of and Winner of the Jack McCarthy book prize (Write Bloody, 2023), Courtney LeBlanc, about passions, process, pitfalls, and Poetry!
REVIEW: SHUTTER – TAYLOR BYAS (MADHOUSE PRESS)
April 14, 2022
Shutter is equally successful for its accessibility and relatability, centering poems that are at once concretely grounded in personal experience and immediately familiar to any reader who experiences self-doubt, heartbreak, and loneliness. – Ronnie K. Stephens
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April 12, 2022
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REPLAYS: NAIL TECH – JACK HARLOW
April 12, 2022
At the end of the day
We ain’t seeing eye to eye
I swear I don’t see you crossing t’s
And I don’t see you dotting I’s
This only a percentage of this income
But we ain’t talking pies
She can hit that 3.14 stance
And I ain’t talking pi’s
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: SPELLS OF MY NAME – I.S. JONES (NEWFOUND)
April 12, 2022
This entire collection is a canal–a wrenching chasm opening for rebirth–a witness to the psyche, split apart, in a world ruled by men who abandoned their humanity for the sake of domination. – Melissa Ferrer
TPQ20: S2EP14 – KRISTIN GARTH
April 11, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney in a sit down with Kristin Garth, the Editor in Cheif of Pink Plastic House, for a conversation about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: AGAINST HEAVEN – KEMI ALABI (GRAYWOLF PRESS)
April 11, 2022
“Against Heaven is an ode to blackness with a question mark to Black Christianity. It is a tribute to queerness and transness. It is a love letter to polyamory, and the lovers had and yet to have….” Lyra Thomas
REPLAYS: UP AT NIGHT BY KEHLANI & JUSTIN BIEBER
April 5, 2022
We can’t control the games people play
We just hope we don’t get played
And the sad part is when I did
At first I would’ve stayed
Then later I prayed
Prayed that I never be someone else’s prey
– Reggie Johnson
TPQ20: S2EP12 – SHAINDEL BEERS
April 4, 2022
Join Chris in a one-on-one sit down with Shaindel Beers, Poetry Editor of Contrary, about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: LEXICON OF FUTURE SELVES – GRETCHEN ROCKWELL (VEGETARIAN ALCOHOLIC PRESS)
March 31, 2022
Again and again, we see the speaker face the tension of negotiating and accepting who they are up against the self-limiting modes of the world they live in. – Steve Henn
REPLAYS: WE GOIN’ UP BY NICKI MINAJ & FIVIO FOREIGN
March 29, 2022
Check my words
Check the diction
Best believe
Don’t want no friction
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: WASHED AWAY – SHIKSHA DHEDA (ALIEN BUDDHA PRESS)
March 29, 2022
Each poem is a subtle reminder that those who experience mental illness are not alone. – Caitie L. Young
TPQ20: S2EP12 – JULIAN RANDALL
March 28, 2022
Join Chris & Courtney of The Poetry Question in a sit down with Julian Randall, author of Refuse (Pitt, 2018), Pilar Ramirez & the Escape from Zafa (Holt), and the upcoming The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: Essays (Bold Type Books), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry.
REVIEW: DROWNING IN LIGHT – TAYLOR STEELE (PLATYPUS PRESS)
March 24, 2022
In this speaker’s world, loneliness becomes a proper noun. A thing of beauty. A thing that will grow into its own season. – Amanda Rabaduex
TALK TO ME: MORDECAI MARTIN W/ JOAN KWON GLASS
March 23, 2022
I sometimes feel like I can’t fully represent any group. But maybe that’s a vehicle for art in and of itself: not to be boxed in, not to follow any prescribed norms for one culture. – Joan Kwon Glass
REPLAYS: FAIR – NORMANI
March 22, 2022
77 days into this year and I believe I’m making progress
Things have been a hard pill to swallow
However I managed to digest
Recycling old recounts and in the end I just digress
Told myself to focus more and worry less
Will lead to more success
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: PLUMSTUFF – ROLLI (8th House Publishing)
March 22, 2022
His poems are full of the energy and playfulness and good humor of a poet who takes things thoughtfully but not too seriously. – Steve Henn
REVIEW: YEAR OF THE UNICORN KIDZ – JASON B. CRAWFORD (SUNDRESS PUBLICATION)
March 21, 2022
These are painful in a glorious way – a healing kind of hurt. This collection offers a safe space for queerness and self and love. – Courtney Margolin
TPQ20: S2EP11 – JASON B. CRAWFORD
March 21, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney in a sitdown with Jason B. Crawford, author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz (Sundress Publications), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REPLAYS: BROKEN PROMISES – SUMMER WALKER
March 15, 2022
Done feeding off the anguish
This is not another anthem
This problem is continuous
This one time isn’t random
Done being the star of your show
Quit entertaining your fandom
Quit acting like a child
Stop doing your temper tantrums
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: DREAM OF THE LAKE – CAROLINE M. MAR (BULL CITY PRESS)
March 15, 2022
Mar brings us to a past world, painted as vividly as ours, made of pretty words and tragic events that leave us feeling wet and sticky, as if the algae of the lake refuse to let us free from it. – Valentina Linardi
TPQ20: S2EP10 – SAEED JONES
March 14, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney Margolin of The Poetry Question in a sitdown with Saeed Jones, author of Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: AS SHE APPEARS – SHELLEY WONG (YESYES BOOKS)
March 10, 2022
With a hint of irony she reminds us of all the rules we’ve been exposed to growing up, of the smallest signs we have to use every day to express ourselves in front of the societal expectations. – Valentina Linardi
REPLAYS: NATURALLY – TINASHE
March 8, 2022
Discussing you only as nouns
When the actions made you a verb
No review of you in my book
I’ll just remember you as blurb
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: NOT FLOWERS – NOREEN OCAMPO (VARIANT LIT)
March 7, 2022
This collection of life-flowers reminds us that life may be ordinary, but this ordinary may just be lovely enough to convince us that we want to be in it. – Melissa Ferrer
TPQ20: S2EP9 – KYLE TRAN MYHRE (GUANTE)
March 7, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney in a sit down with Kyle Tran Myhre (Guante), author of Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough (Button Poetry), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: CUSTOMS – SOLMAZ SHARIF (GRAYWOLF PRESS)
March 3, 2022
[This collection takes a] hard look at the challenges of existing in exile, of growing accustomed to the comforts of America, and of conflicting feelings around claiming a home to which the speaker cannot return. – Ronnie K. Stephens
SPEAK FREELY: FORMAL VERSE AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
March 3, 2022
“The activist in me wants students to grapple with how form, and departure from form, serves as commentary on systemic oppression and gatekeeping”. – Ronnie K. Stephens
REPLAYS: LITTLE STORY – KEHLANI
March 1, 2022
The nightmare is when all the magic stops
Boogeyman syndrome, stay away
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: SOMEWHERE A WOMAN LOWERS THE HEM OF HER SKIRT – LAURIE RACHKUS UTTICH (RIOT IN YOUR THROAT)
March 1, 2022
“Whether through trauma endured in war, drug use, or poor living environment, Uttich pulls the reader into a leaving with traces of those absences”. – Catie L. Young
TPQ20: S2EP8 – MX. FAYLITA HICKS
February 28, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney of The Poetry Question in a sit down with Mx. Faylita Hicks, author of Hoodwitch (Acre Books) and EiC of Black Femme Collective, about passions, process, pitfalls, and Poetry! LISTEN IN HERE: https://anchor.fm/tpq20/episodes/MX–FAYLITA-HICKS-e1f0ctn FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist
REVIEW: HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING – C.T. SALAZAR (ACRE BOOKS)
February 24, 2022
“The idea of losing blood to be filled with salvation, to make sacrifices, to hitchhike trying to find a way home – these speak to overarching themes throughout”. – Amanda Rabaduex
TALK TO ME: MORDECAI MARTIN WITH ARDEN HUNTER
February 23, 2022
“When I’m in the middle of creating I’m actually not very reflective; I don’t sit back and think, ‘why am I doing it this way?’ I just get a bit possessed by it and power through”. – Arden Hunter
TPQ20: S2EP7 – NATE MARSHALL
February 23, 2022
Join Chris of The Poetry Question in a one-on-one about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry with the author of Finna (Penguin Random House), Nate Marshall.
REPLAYS: RENT MONEY – MARY J. BLIGE & DAVE EASTc
February 22, 2022
Not a care in the world
Learning about one’s self
Take what I know now
And protect myself and mental health
Protect my peace
Now I’m up here living with my life on a lease
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: BLOODFRESH BY EBONY STEWART (BUTTON POETRY)
February 22, 2022
Stewart is at her best, masterfully blending her understanding of craft with her keen ear for orality to offer a collection readers will be talking about for years. – Ronnie K. Stephens
REVIEW: CONNOTARY – AE HEE LEE (BULL CITY PRESS)
February 21, 2022
Connotary is an incantation into remembrance. And an edification from where one has been and is always going. And still is also this gift, this display, of honor and renewal. – Melissa Ferrer
TPQ20: S2EP6 – JOAN KWON GLASS
February 21, 2022
Join Chris & Courtney of The Poetry Question in a sit-down conversation with Joan Kwon Glass, author of Night Swim (Diode Editions), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: THE SCIENCE OF DEPARTURES – ADALBER SALAS HERNANDEZ / TRANS. BY ROBIN MYERS (KENNING EDITIONS)
February 17, 2022
“The Science of Departures is the product of a poet whose words double as his hands, and there is so much to read – so much to feel”. – Lyra Taylor
REPLAYS: HRS & HRS – MUNI LONG
February 16, 2022
Who knows how one’s body could have
All the answers to our questions
Thank you for your blessings
– Reggie Johnson
TPQ20: S2EP5 – JAE NICHELLE
February 16, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney in a sit down with @CropTopAssassin, author of The Porch (@yesyesbooks), in a conversation about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: THIS HOUSE – REHEMA NJAMBI (THE EMMA PRESS)
February 15, 2022
“When we write about family, we tread a complicated tightrope between sentimentality and honesty; The way that Njambi writes about family is what pulls each poem together”. – Caitie L. Young
TPQ20: S2EP4 – PRAISE OSAWARU
February 14, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney in a sit down with Praise Osawaru, Contributing Editor at Barren Magazine, Reader for Chestnut review, and 1st place winner of the 2021 Valiant Scribe Poetry Prize.
HEY EVERYONE, IT’S SEXYTIME!
February 14, 2022
IT’S HERE! IT’S HERE! IT’S HERE!
The first of The Poetry Question’s 2021 Chapbook Contest winners has finally arrived! It is SEXYTIME by Lynne Schmidt!
TPQ20: S2EP3 – KB
February 9, 2022
Join Chris, of The Poetry Question, in a one-on-one with KB, author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REPLAYS: JOHNNY P’S CADDY – BENNY THE BUTCHER & J. COLE
February 8, 2022
Done giving you a reason
You can’t take my words
And make your own
You don’t have your own seasoning
Soon you’ll learn there’s no appeasing me
Within good reasoning
– Reggie Johnson
TPQ20: S2EP2 – SEEMA REZA
February 7, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney of The Poetry Question as they sit down for a talk with Seema Reza about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: RETURN FLIGHT – JENNIFER HUANG (MILKWEED EDITIONS)
February 3, 2022
“We love our families as hard as we can. We push forward. We learn languages that don’t lead us to shame because sometimes we “live in a perpetual state of I don’t know”. – Chris Margolin
SPEAK FREELY: EBONY STEWART TRANSFORMS LIVED EXPERIENCES INTO AWARD-WINNING LITERATURE
February 2, 2022
“…let us be intentional in recognizing the incredible contributions that women of color have made & continue to make, not just in literature but in all fields”. – Ronnie K. Stephens
TPQ20: S2EP1 – GABRIELLE BATES
February 1, 2022
Join Chris and Courtney of The Poetry Question in a sit down with Gabrielle Bates about passion, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REPLAYS: SET IN STONE – DANNY LONDON
February 1, 2022
So when it’s all said and done
It’s done, nothing to be said
– Reggie Johnson
MUSES Vol. 3: STETSON BENNETT AND THE YEAR OF THE QUARTERBACK
January 27, 2022
“I was once told by an editor that I “don’t write real poetry”. How is this any different from people saying that Bennett had a mediocre arm”? – Chris L. Butler
REVIEW: GROWN OCEAN – MATT MITCHELL (WORD WEST)
January 26, 2022
“Grown Ocean is a collection about love as much as it is a collection of disenchantment with the world”. – Chris L. Butler
REPLAYS: EAZY – THE GAME & KANYE WEST
January 25, 2022
“They wanted to say my life was a wrap
So I started to rap
I was the gift of many Christmases
Wish I could take my presence back”
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: BELOW TORRENTIAL HILL – JONATHAN KOVEN (ELECTRIC ECLECTIC)
January 21, 2022
“[The reader is left to] examine whether or not there really is a “better” existence; or if we are all destined to simply live the life we’ve been given, and nothing more”. – Chris Margolin
REVIEW: SUCH COLOR BY TRACY K. SMITH (GRAYWOLF PRESS)
January 19, 2022
“[There is a] willingness to engage space as a living entity, something that is at once incomprehensible and animate”. – Ronnie K. Stephens
REPLAYS: YOU & ME – GUNNA & CHLÖE BAILEY
January 18, 2022
They wouldn’t know about
What you and I have
And what I have going on with you
Listening to your wants and needs
Means someone got things to do
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: SCENES FROM A GOD MOVIE – DAVID ROSS LINKLATER (SPECULATIVE BOOKS)
January 14, 2022
And we are most definitely not here to survive and die, but rather to survive within the noise, and then die. – Chris Margolin
EVERYTHING IS A POEM: SPAM AND SOY SAUCE SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH RICE
January 13, 2022
There’s a deep hurt I feel when I share my food with others and they respond with, “That looks gross!” – Alex Dang
REVIEW: FOCAL POINT – JENNY QI (STEEL TOE BOOKS)
January 12, 2022
“With life, there is loss. Yet it all feels wrong. One of the most jarring things about grief is not that the world moves on: it is that the world moves on so quickly and seamlessly”. – Whitney Hansen
REPLAYS: SACRIFICE – THE WEEKND
January 11, 2022
I don’t want to sacrifice
Any more time
Because you are all in my memories
And the good that came from it was of you leaving me
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: SPEAKING CON SU SOMBRA – ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA (ALEGRIA PUBLISHING)
January 11, 2022
These emotional trinkets become the void where sadness echoes. – Marisa Silva-Dunbar
REVIEW: HOW TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH A WOUND – KB (KALLISTO GAIA PRESS)
January 4, 2022
KB recognizes the wound as equally capable of memorializing beautiful, if painful, memories. – Ronnie K. Stephens
SPEAK FREELY: TEACHING BODY POLITICS AND THE SONG OF RESISTANCE
January 3, 2022
Gibson’s version is more culturally responsive and inclusive, inviting discussion into the limitations of Whitman’s perceptions of the body, who determines the worth of specific bodies, and how society uses language to establish a hierarchy of humanity. – Ronnie K. Stephens
BROWN STUDY: LYSZ FLO – “Libeté”
December 30, 2021
“Libeté is a play in three acts masquerading as a stream of consciousness poem. As the poet unspools her themes, the importance of performance and play takes center stage as a means to exploring the matter at hand: liberty. Freedom. Liberation. But not just any liberation, Libeté”. – Jeni De La O
TPQ20: EPISODE 25 – DARIUS SIMPSON
December 27, 2021
Chris sits down with Darius Simpson, winner of the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, to talk about all things passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
TPQ20: EPISODE 23 – KAZIM ALI
December 20, 2021
Chris and Courtney sit down with Kazim Ali, Editor/Founder of Nightboat Books, and Department Chair for Literature at UC San Diego, about all things passions, process, pitfalls, poetry… and Choose Your Own Adventure!
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December 16, 2021
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TPQ20: EPISODE 22 – REAGAN MYERS
December 15, 2021
Chris sits down for a one-on-one with Reagan Myers, author of Afterwards (Button Poetry), to talk about passions, process, pitfalls, poetry… and YA lit!
REPLAYS: NOTE TO SELF – RUSS
December 14, 2021
“It took myself to see that I used to be one-note
Sometimes my actions didn’t match up when I spoke
It took a lot of time for me to dive deep when I wrote
So sink or swim when I go on a whim
I hope you able to float”
– Reggie Johnson
TALK TO ME: SAMANTHA FAIN
December 9, 2021
“It may be too niche at times, I’m sure, but overall I think its goals are the same as those without a tv show backdropped in it: to (maybe re)create characters and a world that describes how they live beside or with their sadness”. – Samantha Fain
TPQ20: EPISODE 20 – ALAN CHAZARO
December 8, 2021
Chris sits down with Alan Chazaro, author of Piñata Theory and This Isn’t a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press), to talk about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REPLAYS: I HATE U – SZA
December 7, 2021
“I’m so sick of the inconsistencies
Like a minute ago you was digging me
Smitten me
How you fall in love and the next minute
You want to get rid of me?”
— Reggie Johnson
MUSES VOL. 2: THE 90’S SILVER SURFER ANIMATED SERIES
December 7, 2021
“The poetically crafted inner monologues of the Silver Surfer that must’ve entrapped my consciousness back then. I realize now he was a poet on this show”. – Chris L. Butler
TPQ20: EPISODE 19 – HANNAH COHEN
December 6, 2021
Courtney and Chris sit down with Hannah Cohen, author of Year of the Scapegoat (coming Spring of ’22 from Glass Poetry), to talk about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: SUPERDOOM – MELISSA BRODER (TIN HOUSE PRESS)
December 3, 2021
“Together, the poems function a bit like a greatest hits album, showcasing the breadth of style and distinct humor for which Broder is known”. – Ronnie K. Stephens
REVIEW: SACRILEGIOUS – CHRIS L. BUTLER (FAHMIDAN)
December 2, 2021
“Because religion can be found inside a Walkman. Inside a radio song. A news segment. Because inside these personal stories and erasures of 2Pac lines, we find a refreshed and re-defined sense of The Word”. – Chris Margolin
TPQ20: EPISODE 18 – PATRICK ROCHE
December 1, 2021
Chris sits down with Patrick Roche, author of A Socially Acceptable Breakdown (Button Poetry), for a one-on-one conversation about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REPLAYS: AFTER LAST NIGHT – SILK SONIC
December 1, 2021
If I could have one wish
we’d make up the whole constellation
The only shining star I need
To light up the night
– Reggie Johnson
REVIEW: STOKED & THRASHING – CLEM FLOWERS (ALIEN BUDDHA PRESS)
November 30, 2021
“Stoked and Thrashing is a masterclass of sensory engagement in writing”. – Whitney Hansen
TPQ20: EPISODE 17 – ASHLEY ELIZABETH
November 29, 2021
Chris and Courtney sit down with Ashley Elizabeth, author of You Were Supposed to be a Friend (Nightengale & Sparrow), for a conversation about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: PECULIAR HERITAGE – DeMISTY BELLINGER (MASON JAR PRESS)
November 29, 2021
“By revisiting historical moments and paying respects to figures that came before her, the author shines light on the issues we still are dealing with today”. – Reggie Johnson
TPQ20: EPISODE 16 – TAYLOR BYAS
November 24, 2021
Chris sits down for a one-on-one conversation with Taylor Byas, author of Bloodwarm (Variant Lit), for a conversation about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
TPQ20: EPISODE 15 – DeMISTY D. BELLINGER
November 22, 2021
Join Courtney and Chris Margolin for a sit down with DeMisty D. Bellinger, author of Peculiar Heritage (Mason Jar Press), for a conversation about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!
REVIEW: YELLOW RAIN – MAI DER VANG (GRAYWOLF PRESS)
November 18, 2021
“Mai Der Vang masters contemporary poetic structures, grounds her verse in vivid and haunting imagery, and carries a central narrative throughout the collection”. – Ronnie K. Stephens