#TPQ5: STEPHEN FURLONG
What will Stephen Furlong, author of What Loss Taught Me (Nostrovia! Press), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: K WEBER
What will K Weber, whose been featured in Moonchild Magazine, Writer’s Digest, Black Bough Poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: UPTALK – KIMMY WALTERS (BOTTLECAP PRESS)
The poems are pacy, well-timed vignettes where the protagonist tries to bottle steam from the shower to throw at a lover…
#TPQ5: JACQUELINE SAPHRA
What will Jacqueline Saphra’s, whose second collection, All My Mad Mothers (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MANAHIL BANDUKWALA
What will Manahil Bandukwala, a Pakistani writer and artist, and the author of Paper Doll (Anstruther Press, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
But when someone nails it you can feel that sweet spot where they’ve balanced the raw emotion and nostalgia. Adrienne Novy hits this balance in Crowd Surfing with God.
#TPQ5: EMMA BOLDEN
What will Emma Bolden, Associate Editor-in-Chief for Tupelo Quarterly, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MATTHEW WALSH
What will Matthew Walsh, who released their debut poetry collection, These are not the potatoes of my youth, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside?
#TPQ5: CHLOE N. CLARK
What will Chloe N. Clark, author of The Science of Unvanishing Objects and Your Strange Fortune, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JEFFREY THOMSON
What will Jeffrey Thomson, author of Half/Life: New and Selected Poems (Alice James Books), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SAMUEL J FOX
What will Samuel J Fox, a queer writer of essays, poetry, and poetry editor for Bending Genres LLC, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: WENDY CHEN
What will Wendy Chen, author of Unearthings (Tavern Books), editor of Figure 1, and managing editor of Tupelo Quarterly, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside?
Life is built on how we deal with our trauma, and Alexus Erin reminds us that it will actually be okay. That we can thrive in a world where survival might be the only option.
#TPQ5: KARI FLICKINGER
What will Kari Flickinger, a 2019 nominee for Best of the Net and the Rhysling Award, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: TAMARA BURROSS GRISANTI
What will Tamara Burross Grisanti, founder and editor-in-chief of Coffin Bell Journal, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POETRY’S DEAD (UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD) – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS
All poems are about ghosts, even if they’re not about ghosts. They’re all haunted by the traces of memory (the poet’s own memory, but also the ghosts of history that each word carries with it).
#TPQ5: ANGELO COLAVITA
What will Angelo Colavita, the Founding Editor of Empty Set Press and Associate Editor at Occulum Journal, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: TRISTA MATEER
What will Trista Mateer, author of multiple collections of poetry, including Honeybee and The Dogs I Have Kissed, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MATT MITCHELL
What will Matt Mitchell, a writer from Northeast Ohio, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Review: Last Stop to Saskatoon, Tony Nesca (Screaming Skull Press):
It’s a world apart – both past and present, angry and sardonic; laughing to keep from crying.
#TPQ5: ELLORA SUTTON
What will Ellora Sutton, whose debut chapbook, All the Shades of Grief, is forthcoming from Nightingale & Sparrow, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Matty Layne Glasgow, author of deciduous qween (Red Hen Press, 2019), selected by Richard Blanco for the Benjamin Saltman Award, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #70: KASHIANA SINGH
Poetry was the heirloom; I took along with me as I walked into a marriage arranged by my parents.
What will Barton Smock, author of Infantcinema, and Ghost Arson, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
The writing is as vulnerable as it is nuanced, as arresting as it is confounding. Oliver de la Paz is not afraid to leave the reader reaching for meaning, in effect mimicking the very experiences that compelled the allegory in the first place.
POETRY IS A SEANCE – KRISTIN GARTH:
Poetry is a ritual to welcome ghosts. Invite them in again. Give them a voice and a space in the physical world. Allow ourselves to be empowered and stronger for their presence than we are alone.
#TPQ5: STEVE DENEHAM
What will Steve Denehan, an award winning poet who lives in Kildare, Ireland, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DEONTE OSAYANDE
What will Deonte Osayande, nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, and the Pushcart Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: ALINA STEFANESCU
What will Alina Stefanescu, winner of the 2019 River Heron Poetry Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: Bänoo Zan
What will Bänoo Zan, a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Kate Gaskin, winner of the Pamet Award for Forever War (YesYes Books 2020), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JANE FLEMING
What will Jane Fleming, author of Ocotillo Worship (APEP Publications, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: Esteban Rodriguez
What will Esteban Rodriguez, author of Dusk & Dust (Hub City Press 2019), and Crash Course (Saddle Road Press 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Matvejeva writes this rise and fall of love with stark honesty, making it hard to look away from. It’s arresting and engaging and makes the reader yearn to find a connection of their own that elicits such a strong and introspective emotions.
#TPQ5: JESSIE LYNN McMAINS
What will Jessie Lynn McMains, the recipient of the 2019 Hal Prize for poetry, and Editor of Bone & Ink Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: STEPHEN PAGE
What will Stephen Page, author of three other books of poetry – A Ranch Bordering the Salty River, The Timbre of Sand, and Still Dandelions, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: BOB ECKSTEIN
What will Bob Eckstein, an award-winning author, New York Times bestseller, & New Yorker cartoonist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CHRISTINE TAYLOR
What will Christine Taylor, the EIC of Kissing Dynamite: A Journal of Poetry and the author of The Queen City (Broken Sleep Books, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: ADAM TEDESCO
What will Adam Tedesco, founding editor of REALITY BEACH, a journal of new poetics, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: WHEN WE WERE FEARSOME BY JOANNA PENN COOPER
I generally have a pretty good idea what the point of living is—at least for myself—but there are these times when nothing seems to add up and I’m simply adrift in the sea of existence.
#TPQ5: TRAVIS CRAVEY
What will Travis Cravey, a mechanic in Southeastern Pennsylvania, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: LYNNE SCHMIDT
What will Lynne Schmidt, whose work has received the Maine Nonfiction Award, Editor’s Choice Award and was a 2018 and 2019 PNWA finalist for memoir and poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JENNIFER WONG
What will Jennifer Wong, author of two collections including Goldfish (Chameleon Press), Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon Poetry), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CRYSTAL IGNATOWSKI
What will Crystal Ignatowski, published in honey and lime, FlyPaper Magazine, Roanoke Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JARED A. CARNIE
What will Jared A. Carnie, author of the novel Waves, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KATHERINE D. MORGAN
What will Katherine D. Morgan, author of the debut chapbook “No Self-Respecting Woman”, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
The poems here are grounded and quaint. They’re not necessarily trying to say anything larger than themselves, and that’s why I enjoyed them so much.
#TPQ5: JENNIFER WORTMAN
What will Jennifer Wortman, author of the story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love (Split Lip Press, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: ANNABEL MAHONEY
What will Annabel Mahoney, EIC of Wellington Street Review & Creative Director of Royal Rose Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: AMUSE GIRL – HANNAH RAYMOND-COX (BURNING EYE BOOKS)
The reader finds themself met with images of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood and cobblestone streets, sex scenes and outbreaks of disease.
#TPQ5: KEVIN DENSLEY
What will Kevin Densley, whose Orpheus in the Undershirt, was published by Ginninderra Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Omg. In my lifetime, moms were actually accused and hated, disabused themselves, for “making their sons homos.”
#TPQ5: KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
What will Karen An-Hwei Lee, author of two novels, Sonata in K (Ellipsis 2017) and The Maze of Transparencies (Ellipsis 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: NISHA BHAKOO
What will Nisha Bhakoo, who is currently editing a Gothic Anthology for The Emma Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
This is beauty. It’s power. It’s uncomfortable because it needs to be. It’s timeless because tradition comes and goes and comes again until you can brush it from your teeth.
#TPQ5: SUSAN RICHARDSON
What will Susan Richardson, Best of the Net Nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Poems can express themselves as fixed and as plastic, as grounded in space and liminal, heterotopic. They can be lively and spectral- palms kissing at the intersection of here and every elsewhere imaginable.
#TPQ5: VIRGIL KAY
What will Virgil Kay, the Editor of Fowlpox Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: LAUREN DAVIS
What will Lauren Davis, author of Each Wild Thing’s Consent (Poetry Wolf Press), include in today’s #0? Find out inside!
The Inevitable Gift Shop – Will Eaves This collection of mini vignettes of fiction and non fiction, as well as poetry, is beautifully written and frequently hilarious– “really what tortoises teach you about is abusive relationships”. It’s a book that demands to be read and re-read – and then re-read again; both front to back,…
#TPQ5: ANNE LEIGH PARRISH
What will Anne Leigh Parrish, whose fourth novel, Maggie’s Ruse, releases this October from Unsolicited Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CATHERINE GRAHAM
What will Catherine Graham, an award-winning Toronto-based writer, include in her #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DANIELLE ROSE
What will Danielle Rose, the managing editor of Dovecote Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Paul Brookes, editor of the Wombwell Rainbow Interviews, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
It’s a study in being a spectator. Viewing life and love like bird watching. Like waiting for something to happen, to change, but not knowing what it is, or what it’s changing.
What will Sascha A. Akhtar, author of three published poetry collections with Salt, Shearsman & ZimZalla UK, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JOHN WILKS
What will John Wilks, editor of Cerasus Poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Claire Walker, co-editor of Atrium poetry webzine, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
There is a way to not hide among the trees. A way to say no. A way to take the power back. A way to not be eaten by those you bring into your space – or who bring themselves into yours. Because, you can conquer anything.
#TPQ5: RACHEL CRUEA
What will Rachel Cruea,
a poetry editor for GASHER, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Peter Thabit Jones, recipient of many awards, including the Eric Gregory Award for Poetry (The Society of Authors, London), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find our inside!
What will Thomas McColl, whose first full collection of poetry, Being With Me Will Help You Learn, was published in 2016, include in today’s #TPQ5. Find out inside!
There is a distinct musicality to the poems, syllables punctuated and softened by an underlying rhythm that echoes both hip hop and the long history of oral performance in poetry.
We are the children of those who falter and call us by the wrong name. But we still believe. We still think there is hope. We still practice prayer because, by God, “I’m not dead yet.”
POWER OF POETRY #66: GIVING VOICE – CHRISTINE BRANDEL
“When I was growing up, the term for people who didn’t talk was dumb.”
What will Norb Aikin, author and a Mental Health Advocate, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
I mean that “The Journey” by Mary Oliver changed the way that I thought about my own voice and value. Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” brought me back to the world…
What will Kerry James Evans, the recipient of a 2015 NEA Fellowship, and Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
This was written for a glass of whisky, late at night, in front of the fire with a photo album. This was written to share at the baby’s graduation and wedding. This is a reminder of mislabeled key collections and dreams realized. This is important. This is personal.
#TPQ5: ASHLEY WAGNER
What will Ashley Wagner, Edith of Ligeia, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Dare Williams, a 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: PAUL KOHN
What will Paul Kohn, a writer of poetry and short stories, performer of spoken word, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Daniel Cowper, author of a poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will A.W. French, host of Page Fright: A Literary Podcast, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Oliver de la Paz, author of five books of poetry including his most recent, The Boy in the Labyrinth, have in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Darren C. Demaree, author of eleven poetry collections, most recently “Emily As Sometimes the Forest Wants the Fire”, include in today’s #TQP5? Find out inside!
What will John LaPine, whose first chapbook of essays, An Unstable Container, is forthcoming from Bull City Press in 2019, include in today’s #TPQ5?
It’s desolate. It’s too calm. It’s winter and nothing resembles anything, because everything is gone. Two roads do converge, but both have been swallowed by nature.
We see ghosts. They are buried inside our brain, hidden beneath hair and skin and skull. They push at the back of our eyes for every decision we make. They remind us of all our mistakes and fears, but rarely our accomplishments.
#TPQ5: JOSEPH DELGADO
What will poet, Joseph Delgado, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Maria Castro Dominguez, author of A Face in The Crowd, 2016 Erbacce–press prize winning collection, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Shannon Bramer, author of TRAPSONGS: three plays, is forthcoming from Book*hug in 2020, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Edward Vidaurre, the 2018-2019 City of McAllen,TX Poet Laureate and publisher of FlowerSong Books, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
And sharing is hard; poetry has an awful stigma due to academia’s institutional stranglehold on the concept. Thankfully, however, poetry will always be of, by, and for the people.
What will Greg Mania, writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Jake Bailey, a schizotypal confessionalist and the co-editor of poetry for Lunch Ticket, include in today’s #TPQ5? FInd out inside!
What will Martin Appleby, a poet, punk, vegetarian, cider drinking scumbag, and editor of PAPER AND INK LITERARY ZINE, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Matthew Haigh, author of Black Jam (Broken Sleep Books), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
…an ode to the complexity of relationships and how often we may be hiding in order to sustain someone else
What will A$iahMae, author of “oxygen” (2016) and co-creator of now defunct online mag For The Scribes, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Derek Beaulieu, author/editor of over twenty collections of poetry, prose, and criticism, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will SaraEve Fermin, performance poet, editor, epilepsy/ mental health advocate, & 2015 Best of the Net nominee include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Laura DiNovis Berry, book reviewer and poet, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Travis Chi Wing Lau, whose chapbook, The Bone Setter, was recently published with Damaged Goods Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Andrés Cerpa, author of Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy (2019) from Alice James Books, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
If you want a quick dive into our collective punk-rock past, these poems will transport you back to being 15 again; old enough to sneak into the bar from backstage but young enough to still covet the drummer
#TPQ5: ALAN PARAY
What will Alan Paray, Published poet and playwright from Merseyside, England, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Stuart Buck, Best of the Net Nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Because of this she believes pain accrued is simply part of life and develops a calloused outlook on love and sex.
We are equals who do not know it. We are hidden behind skin and bones and names and colors and genders and identity, but we are not whole.
What will Ross Robbins, author of The Three EPs, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Nassere Hussain, Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature (Leeds Beckett University, UK), author of SKY WRI TEI NGS (Coach House Books 2018), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
these poems are tender and honest and complex. The speaker turns a critical gaze on himself often, acknowledging his part in the distance that grew between himself and his lover.
What will Salam Wosu include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
And if things get scary, there’s a comfortable scrap of wool left to pull over their eyes. Hiding in comfort. Things are still good. Stop being so dramatic.
What will Holly Pelesky, author of Quiver: A Sexploration, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Who will Christina Strigas, featured by CBC Books in, “Your Ultimate Canadian Poetry List: 68 Poetry Collections Recommended by You,” include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Robert Frede Kenter, Co-editor/publisher at Ice Floe Press, include in today’s #TQP5? Find out inside!
Through poems predicated on the Turing Test structure, Choi introduces the reader to questions that test not just whether or not the respondent is sentient, but also seek to undermine the humanity of specific identities in daily life.
Who will Jaye Simpson, queer indigenous trans woman trying to survive the end of the world, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Charlotte Hamrick, Creative Nonfiction Editor for Barren Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ? Find out inside!
What will A.M. Juster include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Mark Antony Owen include in today’s edition of #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Neil Sparkes, a poet, musician and visual artist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Poetry doesn’t give me the power, doesn’t licence me, to say whatever I want in whichever way I choose. It rather forces me to attend to the potentials of language and to generate meanings beyond my private prerogatives.
#TPQ5: ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA
What will Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, author of Between the Spine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
While the poems can at times express hopelessness, rage and what feels like a long held grudge, there is a resilience in these words that very much feels like a reclamation of power – a reversal of every wrong done.
#TPQ5: MATT DUGGAN
What will Matt Dugan, author of
Woodworm (Hedgehog Poetry Press), include one today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
This is when I realized that I needed to stop running from my fate and fear of failure and face the destiny of stanza, rhymes and climaxes waiting to be crafted before me.
It’s becoming immersed in that which you do not know. It’s starting from scratch. It’s acknowledging the past that had been left out of the histories you told.
Sometimes we are bored. Sometimes we are lonely. Sometimes we are horny. Sometimes we have to turn around and around and around again to simply fit.
What will Joseph Fasano, winner of the RATTLE Poetry Prize and the Cider Press Review Book Award, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Jen Rouse, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Cornell College, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Carlos Andrés Gómez, author of Hijito, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What does Glen Wilson, winner of The Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing and the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
What will Shazia Hafiz Ramji, the author of Port of Being, a finalist for the 2019 BC Book Prizes (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, include on her #TPQ5? Find out inside!
[This] is a haunting and eye opening collection which recounts heartbreaking personal experiences being both mother and mothered
What will Megha Sood, National level poetry finalist in Poetry Matters Prize for 2019, include in today’s #TPQ5? Click to find out!
What will Dean Rhetoric, a Pushcart Prize nominee, a BBC Writer’s Room finalist and was once commended for The Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
Too many people are Goodwill books – spines taped together, hoping for enough threads to keep them in place. Too many wear covers by which they are judged. Too many are discarded without being read.
Who will Paul Robert Mullen, Editor of Broken Spine Arts, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Who will Marielle Songy, writer, Artist, 9th generation New Orleanian include in her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
Who does David Estringel, Poetry Editor @fishbowlpress & @MagazineElixir include in his #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
Because Cepeda wants you to be the paper to your lover’s pen. Because poetry is so much more than words on paper. Because sometimes sex is more than sex. Sometimes sex is the poem you become for your partner when they need you the most.
What did Claire Millikin, the author of 6 full-length books of poetry, include on her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
Once I divested myself of my image of a poet with a capital P, as an old dead white man from the early 20th century or earlier who had intoned poems in an English accent whilst stroking his sizeable beard, my whole world opened up.
This is a call to all who grew up wondering how they ended up who they became, and how to enjoy every second of it before you realize that “no amount of surgery could erase those scars.”
What will Juliette Sebock, founding editor of Nightingale & Sparrow, include in her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
Who does Megan Neville, author of Rust Belt Love Song (Game Over Books), include on her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
It’s clear to me now that poetry isn’t just a way for me to locate meaning in experience but is the very organizing principle behind my thinking. Because I can’t visualize in my mind, I conjure through language.