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. Continue reading REVIEW: THE TRADITION – JERICHO BROWN (COPPER CANYON PRESS)
#TPQ5: SUSAN RICHARDSON
What will Susan Richardson, Best of the Net Nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SUSAN RICHARDSON
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #68: ALEXUS ERIN
#TPQ5: VIRGIL KAY
What will Virgil Kay, the Editor of Fowlpox Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: VIRGIL KAY
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: LAUREN DAVIS
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, back to front, and in all other manner of combinations. … Continue reading #TPQ5: SAMUEL DODSON
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: ANNE LEIGH PARRISH
#TPQ5: CATHERINE GRAHAM
What will Catherine Graham, an award-winning Toronto-based writer, include in her #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CATHERINE GRAHAM
#TPQ5: DANIELLE ROSE
What will Danielle Rose, the managing editor of Dovecote Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DANIELLE ROSE
What will Paul Brookes, editor of the Wombwell Rainbow Interviews, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: PAUL BROOKES
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. Continue reading REVIEW: FIELD NOTES ON ORDINARY LOVE – KEITH WILSON (COPPER CANYON PRESS)
What will Sascha A. Akhtar, author of three published poetry collections with Salt, Shearsman & ZimZalla UK, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SASCHA AKHTAR
#TPQ5: JOHN WILKS
What will John Wilks, editor of Cerasus Poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JOHN WILKS
What will Claire Walker, co-editor of Atrium poetry webzine, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CLAIRE WALKER
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. Continue reading REVIEW: EVEN CURSES END – CATHERINE GARBINSKY (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)
#TPQ5: RACHEL CRUEA
What will Rachel Cruea,
a poetry editor for GASHER, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: RACHEL CRUEA
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: PETER THABIT JONES
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: THOMAS McCOLL
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. Continue reading REVIEW: EVERYTHING MUST GO – KEVIN COVAL (HAYMARKET BOOKS)
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.” Continue reading REVIEW: EVEN THE SAINTS AUDITION – RAYCH JACKSON (BUTTON POETRY)
POWER OF POETRY #66: GIVING VOICE – CHRISTINE BRANDEL
“When I was growing up, the term for people who didn’t talk was dumb.” Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #67: GIVING VOICE – CHRISTINE BRANDEL
What will Norb Aikin, author and a Mental Health Advocate, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: NORB AIKIN
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… Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #66: CATHERINE GARBINSKY
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KERRY JAMES EVANS
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. Continue reading REVIEW: LATE FATHER & OTHER POEMS – TAYLOR MALI (QUERCUS REVIEW PRESS)
#TPQ5: ASHLEY WAGNER
What will Ashley Wagner, Edith of Ligeia, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ASHLEY WAGNER
What will Dare Williams, a 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DARE WILLIAMS
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: PAUL KOHN
What will Daniel Cowper, author of a poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DANIEL COWPER
What will A.W. French, host of Page Fright: A Literary Podcast, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: A.W. FRENCH
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: OLIVER de la PAZ
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: DARREN C. DEMAREE
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? Continue reading #TPQ5: JOHN LaPINE
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. Continue reading REVIEW: 61 CENTRAL – INK (FINISHING LINE PRESS)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: DAD, REMEMBER YOU ARE DEAD – JACQUELINE SAPHRA (NINE ARCHES PRESS)
#TPQ5: JOSEPH DELGADO
What will poet, Joseph Delgado, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JOSEPH DELGADO
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: MARIA CASTRO DOMINGUEZ
What will Shannon Bramer, author of TRAPSONGS: three plays, is forthcoming from Book*hug in 2020, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SHANNON BRAMER
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: EDWARD VIDAURRE
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #65: INK
What will Greg Mania, writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: GREG MANIA
What will Jake Bailey, a schizotypal confessionalist and the co-editor of poetry for Lunch Ticket, include in today’s #TPQ5? FInd out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JAKE BAILEY
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: MARTIN APPLEBY
What will Matthew Haigh, author of Black Jam (Broken Sleep Books), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MATTHEW HAIGH
…an ode to the complexity of relationships and how often we may be hiding in order to sustain someone else Continue reading REVIEW: EVERY BIRD IS A MIRACLE – TARA ROEDER & ARMAN SAFA (NEW MICHIGAN PRESS)
What will A$iahMae, author of “oxygen” (2016) and co-creator of now defunct online mag For The Scribes, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: A$iahMae
What will Derek Beaulieu, author/editor of over twenty collections of poetry, prose, and criticism, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DEREK BEAULIEU
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! Continue reading #TPQ: SARAEVE FERMIN
What will Laura DiNovis Berry, book reviewer and poet, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: LAURA DiNOVIS BERRY
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: TRAVIS CHI WING LAU
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: ANDRES CERPA
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 Continue reading REVIEW: FORGET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS (BONE AND INK PRESS)
#TPQ5: ALAN PARAY
What will Alan Paray, Published poet and playwright from Merseyside, England, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ALAN PARRY
What will Stuart Buck, Best of the Net Nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: STUART BUCK
Because of this she believes pain accrued is simply part of life and develops a calloused outlook on love and sex. Continue reading REVIEW: SKELETON PARADE – MELA BLUST (APEP PUBLICATIONS)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: ADVANTAGES OF BEING EVERGREEN – OLIVER BAEZ BENDORF (CSU POETRY CENTER)
What will Ross Robbins, author of The Three EPs, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ROSS ROBBINS
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: NASSER HUSSAIN
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. Continue reading REVIEW: A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER – HANIF ABDURRAQIB (TIN HOUSE BOOKS)
What will Salam Wosu include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SALAM WOSU
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #64: MELA BLUST
What will Holly Pelesky, author of Quiver: A Sexploration, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: HOLLY PELESKY
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHRISTINA STRIGAS
What will Robert Frede Kenter, Co-editor/publisher at Ice Floe Press, include in today’s #TQP5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ROBERT FREDE KENTER
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. Continue reading REVIEW: SOFT SCIENCE – FRANNY CHOI (ALICE JAMES BOOKS)
Who will Jaye Simpson, queer indigenous trans woman trying to survive the end of the world, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JAYE SIMPSON
What will Charlotte Hamrick, Creative Nonfiction Editor for Barren Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHARLOTTE HAMRICK
What will A.M. Juster include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: A.M. JUSTER
What will Mark Antony Owen include in today’s edition of #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MARK ANTONY OWEN
What will Neil Sparkes, a poet, musician and visual artist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: NEIL SPARKES
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #63: DANIEL GUSTAFSSON
#TPQ5: ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA
What will Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, author of Between the Spine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA
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. Continue reading REVIEW: IF THE GIRL NEVER LEARNS – SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN (BRICK MANTEL BOOKS)
#TPQ5: MATT DUGGAN
What will Matt Dugan, author of
Woodworm (Hedgehog Poetry Press), include one today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MATT DUGGAN
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #62: ERNESTO CEPEDA
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. Continue reading REVIEW: I AM A BODY OF LAND – SHANNON WEBB-CAMPBELL (BOOK*HUG PRESS)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: HUMAN TETRIS – VI KHI NAO & ALI RAZ (11:11 PRESS)
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JOSEPH FASANO
What will Jen Rouse, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Cornell College, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JEN ROUSE
What will Carlos Andrés Gómez, author of Hijito, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Continue reading #TPQ5: Carlos Andrés Gómez
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: GLEN WILSON
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: SHAZIA HAFIZ RAMJI
[This] is a haunting and eye opening collection which recounts heartbreaking personal experiences being both mother and mothered Continue reading REVIEW: MOTHER MAY I? – JULIETTE van der MOLEN (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)
What will Megha Sood, National level poetry finalist in Poetry Matters Prize for 2019, include in today’s #TPQ5? Click to find out! Continue reading #TPQ5: MEGHA SOOD
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: DEAN RHETORIC
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. Continue reading REVIEW: HIJITO – CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ (PLATYPUS PRESS)
Who will Paul Robert Mullen, Editor of Broken Spine Arts, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: PAUL ROBERT MULLEN
Who will Marielle Songy, writer, Artist, 9th generation New Orleanian include in her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition! Continue reading #TPQ5: MARIELLE SONGY
Who does David Estringel, Poetry Editor @fishbowlpress & @MagazineElixir include in his #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition! Continue reading #TPQ5: DAVID ESTRINGEL
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. Continue reading REVIEW: BETWEEN THE SPINE: A COLLECTION OF EROTIC LOVE POEMS – ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA (Picture Show Press)
What did Claire Millikin, the author of 6 full-length books of poetry, include on her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition! Continue reading #TPQ5: CLAIRE MILLIKIN
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #61: AMANDA EARL
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.” Continue reading REVIEW: THE GIRL WITH THE MOST CAKE: POEMS ABOUT COURTNEY LOVE – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS (BONE & INK PRESS)
What will Juliette Sebock, founding editor of Nightingale & Sparrow, include in her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition! Continue reading #TPQ5: Juliette Sebock
Who does Megan Neville, author of Rust Belt Love Song (Game Over Books), include on her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition! Continue reading #TPQ5: MEGAN NEVILLE
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #60: ALICIA REBECCA MYERS
These poems take the reader through generations and geographies a lens that feels deeply personal; the reader becomes a fly on the walls as these families are presented and personified. Continue reading REVIEW: THE PROTECTION OF GHOSTS – NATALIE LINH BOLDERSTON (V. PRESS)
What will Jose Hernandez Diaz include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ
These are conversations between friends, lovers, inmates, and acquaintances. These are the stories of someone who lived their life until there was no more. And then, unfortunately, there was no more. Continue reading REVIEW: WE’RE DANCING LIKE PLANETS NOW – M. TYLER ESPLIN (LINE RIDER PRESS)
What does Mandy Suzanne-Wong include in her #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading TPQ#5: MANDY SUZANNE-WONG
Who will Sara place in her #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SARA
It can be both the push and pull that keeps you moving through life – even if it’s more an I-could-probably-do-this-on-my-own-but-I’m-not-going-to-unless-you-force-me type of push. Other times it just fucking hurts. Continue reading REVIEW: IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE – CLEMENTINE von RADICS (ANDREWS MCMEEL PUBLISHING)
What will Alexander Wallis include in today’s edition of #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ALEXANDER WALLIS
It’s okay to be comfortable. To live life day-by-day, and keep it simple. It’s okay to feel like we move through life as a slow drawl – not slow, but easy. Continue reading REVIEW: THE BOY WHO COULDN’T SAY HIS NAME – JOHN LAWRENCE (V. PRESS)
What will Anne Walshe Donnelly, author of The Woman With an Owl Tattoo (Fly on the Wall Press), include on today’s #TPQ5? Continue reading #TPQ5: ANNE WALSH DONNELLY
If there’s one thing that probably rings truest for me among all the things I could say about the power of poetry, it would be that poetry has the capacity to make us better people. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #59: SARAH CAREY
Which books and writers will Colin Dardis, author of The Dogs of Humanity, include on his #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: COLIN DARDIS
“It’s knowing that it was okay to not want to be royalty. To, instead, want it to be Halloween – to want the ability to wear Vulnerable as a mask without any consequence of laughter.” Continue reading REVIEW: RUST BELT LOVE SONG – MEGAN NEVILLE (GAME OVER BOOKS)
Which books did Jeremy Gaulke, Editor in Chief of APEP Publications, include on this edition of #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JEREMY GAULKE (APEP PUBLICATIONS)
Maybe, sometimes, it’s because a particular poem needs revisiting more than once to understand what it’s trying to say. Or maybe it’s because the power of a poem is beyond the actual words, and needs time to discover. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #58: JOHN LAWRENCE
If you could reshape history, would you stay woodworm, or would you scrape, claw, stab, and squeeze your way to the top? Continue reading REVIEW: WOODWORM – MATT DUGGAN (HEDGEHOG PRESS)
Which books does Ace Boggess, author of States of Mercy (Alien Buddha Press), have in his #TPQ5? Continue reading #TPQ5: ACE BOGGESS
From those we love, to those we’ve loved in mirrors, we are left to sift through and decide between thoughts, facades, and realities. This is our path to survival, to strength, to moving on regardless of those who’ve hurt us. Continue reading REVIEW: FORGIVENESS – CHELSEA BUNN (FINISHING LINE PRESS)
Which books does Charles Jensen, author of Nanopedia, have on his #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHARLES JENSEN
What books does Jack B. Bedell, Louisiana Poet Laureate, have on his #TPQ5?
Continue reading #TPQ5: JACK B. BEDELL
In poetry, you find the life stories of each of us and as a reader, you interpret each poem in your own way, despite the real meaning behind the poem or regardless of the reasons why the writer wrote it. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #55: FRANCOISE CHOUINARD
It’s an acknowledgement of those we’ve lost in the fire, and those we’ve gained because of it. That, it’s never the drug, but rather the longing to quell the quiet. Continue reading REVIEW: THE ONLY WORLDS WE KNOW – MICHAEL LEE (BUTTON POETRY)
Who does Alex Smith include in his #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
Add your own from the link at the bottom. Continue reading #TPQ5: ALEX SMITH
This is the poet, reflecting inwardly, recalling moments when ‘the sad trickles in like morning rays’ with the empowering and uplifting revelation: ’you can rise to face it’. Continue reading REVIEW: RADIANT SOULS – LENEE H. (SELF-PUBLISHED)
Find out who is in Samuel Guest’s #TPQ5?
Add your own from the link at the bottom. Continue reading #TPQ5: SAMUEL GUEST
“….the act of creating, of writing or of speaking a poem into existence, is an act of discovery, of discovery of meaning, an act of self-discovery—who I am at this given moment in time? Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #54: BILL DENHAM
Who does Weasel, founder of Weasel Press put in his list of top 5 authors? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5.
Who’s in your #TPQ5? Continue reading #TPQ5: WEASEL
And after All tackles the passage of time with snapshots of life that has me searching through my own for moments and memories that speak as musically as her words do. And as a fellow Latina poet, she’s an inspiration worth reading again. Continue reading REVIEW: AND AFTER ALL – RHINA ESPAILLAT (ABLE MUSE PRESS)
What does Lyd Havens put in their list of top 5 books? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5. Continue reading #TPQ5: LYD HAVENS
breathtaking flights of fancy that will give you the bends before undercutting these mercurial moments with a healthy dose of dark humour. These balloons have anchors. Continue reading REVIEW: BLACK JAM – MATTHEW HAIGH (BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS
People want what they want. They want to be dominated, pissed on, talked down to, used, pleased, titillated, and teased. More than anything, they just want to feel like they don’t have to feel anything other than their truest desires for however long time, or money, can afford. Continue reading REVIEW: THE SPLOOGE FACTORY – CHRISTINA SPRINGER (FRAYED EDGE PRESS)
What did Fred Schmaltz put in his top 5? Find out in this edition of The #TPQ5. Continue reading #TPQ5: FRED SCHMALZ
She becomes the alpha and the omega, earth and firmament as we become willing travellers on her journey through the hills of Ireland and the drumlins of memory Continue reading REVIEW: CARNIVOROUS – MOYRA DONALDSON (DOIRE PRESS)
Who does Jim Whiteside, the 2019-2021 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, put in his list of top 5 authors? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5. Continue reading #TPQ5: JIM WHITESIDE
Who does Angela Gabrielle Fabunan put in her list of top 5 authors? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5. Continue reading #TPQ5: ANGELA GABRIELLE FABUNAN
“We Blacks in space are Hoovers.
Who gonna be cryin’ in the 23rd century? / Not this hole’s grand grands. We define / the light until we all done letting stars be bright / ‘N suck up all the credit for nothing / they do ‘cept sit there burning.” Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #53: CHRISTINA SPRINGER
“…remember that “if you double a bubble / you will have two bubbles / but this information isn’t worth / a pile of rubble.” We don’t always want what we find, but we are often the reason we’ve found ourselves there.” Continue reading REVIEW: MOTEL OF OPPOSABLE THUMBS – STUART ROSS (ANVIL PRESS)
What does Ronnie Stephens put in his list of top 5 books? Find out in this edition of #TPQ5. Continue reading #TPQ5: RONNIE STEPHENS
Who does rob mclennan, Founder of Above/Ground Press, put in his list of top 5 authors? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5. Continue reading #TPQ5: rob mclennan
Monsters are truly everywhere. Usually, though, they look just like us. Continue reading REVIEW: BITE ME!: MUSINGS ON MONSTER AND MAYHEM – JOE ROSENBLATT (THE PORCUPINE’S QUILL)
It’s the slant-rhyme hymnals with a push-away-from-God-and-man chorus you can’t keep out of your head. These are hymns for the hopeless who long to be significant. Continue reading REVIEW: ODD LIST ODD HOUSE – ELISABETH HORAN (TWIST IN TIME)
Who does award winning author, Ran Walker, put in his list of top 5 authors? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5. Continue reading #TPQ5: RAN WALKER
Some ask us how many beats our hearts have left. Others just cut to the core of all our fears, to the ‘kelp-nest of wires’ as her fifth born slumbers ‘tiny and certain’ Continue reading REVIEW: THE SAINT OF MILK AND FLAMES – KATE GARRETT (RHYTHM AND BONES PRESS)
I can’t go to work and say to a colleague: I stay up late at night imagining animals being hit in the road over and over… Continue reading POWER OF POETRY: #52 ELISABETH HORAN
Who does Alexandra Meehan put in her list of top 5 books? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5. Continue reading #TPQ5: ALEXANDRA MEEHAN
We can certainly watch The Shining as a movie about ghost leading a man down a path of madness, but isn’t it scarier to think the ghosts are figments of his imagination, and his madness’ provenance is in the anger he ignores and represses? Continue reading REVIEW: CHOKING BACK THE DEVIL – DONNA LYNCH (RAW DOG SCREAMING PRESS)
What did Kristin Garth, Founder of Pink Plastic House, put in her top 5? Find out in this edition of The #TPQ5. Continue reading #TPQ5: KRISTIN GARTH
The reason isn’t always so obvious, but wear masks and costumes at each stage of life. We are, in most moments, who we choose to be. And in others, we become, well, others. Continue reading REVIEW: DECIDUOUS QWEEN – MATTY LAYNE GLASGOW (RED HEN PRESS)
Who is in your top 5 list of writers or books? Allow us a glance into who or what inspires you. Complete the form inside to submit your list. Continue reading #TPQ5: SUBMIT YOUR LIST
We all have our ideals of life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. If eventually we all die, then what is life if we can’t burn through a paycheck in a day – especially with the ones we love. Continue reading REVIEW: STARVING ROMANTIC – VINCENT PERRONE (11:11 PRESS)
Who does Joshua Lew McDermott, Co-Founder of Line Rider Press, put in his list of top 5 authors? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5. Continue reading #TPQ5 – JOSHUA LEW McDERMOTT
Deglane successfully submerges us into the mind of a person troubled by depression, anxiety, trauma, and a Lexapro-fogged brain with an overarching story of hope. Continue reading REVIEW: LADY SATURN – WANDA DEGLANE (RHYTHM & BONES)
At this moment I’m typing in my apartment. A dog barks from a neighbor’s yard. A petal drops from the vase of wildflowers on my desk. And still I am in my parents basement playing with an eight-track recorder. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #51: “FORM/MEANING” – VINCENT PERRONE
We are caretakers to those who don’t even know they need it. We don’t matter. We are a secondary character in a long history of other people’s lives. We are found in the footnotes. Continue reading REVIEW: BUILD YOURSELF A BOAT – CAMONGHNE FELIX (HAYMARKET BOOKS)
While it can never be too late, it can be not enough, or just enough, or meaningless. But when most things are stuck somewhere between our dreams and the idea of reality, we tend to cling to some extrinsic hope – real or not. Continue reading REVIEW: GYPSY QUEEN – NICOLE HENNESSY (CRISIS CHRONICLES PRESS)
