#TPQ5: CAROLINE SHEA
November 19, 2019
#TPQ5: CAROLINE SHEA
What will Caroline Shea, author of Lambflesh (Kelsay Books, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
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#TPQ5: CASSIE DONISH
November 19, 2019
#TPQ5: CASSIE DONISH
What will Cassie Donish, a queer Jewish poet and writer, author of The Year of the Femme, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: THE BOOK OF DANIEL – AARON SMITH (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS)
November 18, 2019
It’s a headfirst take on being simply yourself in a sardonic world that wants to throw cancer and queer and God’s erect penis at you like they are insults.
#TPQ5: D.A. GRAY
November 18, 2019
#TPQ5: D.A. GRAY
What will D.A. Gray, author, Retired soldier and veteran, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: TJ NEER
November 18, 2019
#TPQ5: TJ NEER
What will TJ Neer, a bookseller at The Book Loft in Columbus, OH, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JUSTENE DION-GLOWA
November 15, 2019
#TPQ5: JUSTENE DION-GLOWA
What will Justene Dion-Glowa, a bi Métis poet from BC, Canada, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KEVIN LATIMER
November 14, 2019
#TPQ5: KEVIN LATIMER
What will Kevin Latimer, a poet & playwright from Cleveland, Ohio, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Review: An Offering, Stewart Sanderson, Tapsalteerie Publishing House
November 14, 2019
Review: An Offering – Stewart Sanderson (Tapsalteerie Publishing House)
A small, majestic journey is what comes to mind while reading An Offering; the kind you take close to home in the fresh damp of morning’s first light.
#TPQ5: COURTNEY LeBLANC
November 13, 2019
#TPQ5: COURTNEY LeBLANC
What will Courtney LeBlanc, author of Beautiful & Full of Monsters (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: STEVE HENN
November 13, 2019
#TPQ5: STEVE HENN
What will Steve Henn, author of Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KOLLEEN CARNEY HOEPFNER
November 13, 2019
#TPQ5: KOLLEEN CARNEY HOEPFNER
What will Kolleen Carney Hoepfner, whose main goal in life is to have Alec Baldwin smile at her, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MARTIN OTT
November 12, 2019
#TPQ5: MARTIN OTT
What will Martin Ott, author of nine books of poetry and fiction, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Review: 99 Names of Exile, Kaveh Bassiri (Newfound Poetry)
November 12, 2019
Review: 99 Names of Exile, Kaveh Bassiri (Newfound Poetry)
This is a work of tender vulnerability, offering a glimpse of deeply personal stories through the abstraction of metaphor.
#TPQ5: AMORAK HUEY
November 11, 2019
#TPQ5: AMORAK HUEY
What will Amorak Huey, author of three books of poetry, most recently Boom Box (Sundress, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KATIE DARBY MULLINS
November 11, 2019
#TPQ5: KATIE DARBY MULLINS
What will Katie Darby Mullins, nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SAMANTHA MERZ
November 10, 2019
#TPQ5: SAMANTHA MERZ
What will Samantha Merz, published by Fevers of the Mind Poetry Digest, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MEGAN CRAYNE
November 10, 2019
#TPQ5: MEGAN CRAYNE
What will Megan Crayne, a writer and graduate student in Book Publishing in Portland, OR, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JOSEPH EDWIN HAEGER
November 9, 2019
#TPQ5: JOSEPH EDWIN HAEGER
What will Joseph Edwin Haeger, author of When I Am a Famous Person (Optography Press), & Learn to Swim (University of Hell Press), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: AMEE NASSRENE BROUMAND
November 8, 2019
#TPQ5: AMEE NASSRENE BROUMAND
What will Amee Nassrene Broumand, an Iranian-American poet, nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: GILL McEVOY
November 8, 2019
#TPQ5: GILL McEVOY
What will Gill McEvoy, winner of the 2015 Michael Marks Award, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: SPACE STRUCK – PAIGE LEWIS (SARABANDE BOOKS)
November 7, 2019
REVIEW – SPACE STRUCK BY PAIGE LEWIS (SARABANDE BOOKS)
In a year of absolutely gorgeous verse, Paige Lewis sets themselves apart, at once informed by the masters of craft and entirely unique in their own right. This is a collection you won’t want to miss.
#TPQ5: SARAH WALLIS
November 6, 2019
#TPQ5: SARAH WALLIS
What will Sarah Wallis, a poet & playwright based in Scotland, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: TARA LYNN HAWK
November 6, 2019
#TPQ5: TARA LYNN HAWK
What will Tara Lynn Hawk, author of Rhetorical Wanderlust, and The Dead, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: COLIN BANCROFT
November 5, 2019
#TPQ5: COLIN BANCROFT
What will Colin Bancroft, winner of the 2016 poets and players prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JILL MCELDOWNY
November 5, 2019
#TPQ5: JILL MCELDOWNY
What will Jill Mceldowny, author of the Airs Above Ground (Finishing Line Press) and Kisses Over Babylon (dancing girl press), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: BRIAN S. ELLIS
November 4, 2019
#TPQ5: BRIAN S. ELLIS
What will Brian S. Ellis, author of Often Go Awry from University of Hell Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SCOTT MANLEY HADLEY
November 4, 2019
#TPQ5: SCOTT MANLEY HADLEY
What will Scott Manley Hadley, Satire Editor at Queen Mob’s Teahouse, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: PAOLA FERRANTE
November 3, 2019
#TPQ5: PAOLA FERRANTE
What will Paola Ferrante, author of What to Wear When Surviving A Lion Attack, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KEVIN SPENST
November 1, 2019
#TPQ5: KEVIN SPENST
What will Kevin Spenst, the author of Ignite, and Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: ISABELLE KENYON
November 1, 2019
#TPQ5: ISABELLE KENYON
What will Isabelle Kenyon, the managing director of Fly on the Wall Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
WE HAVE TPQ SHIRTS!
October 31, 2019
WE HAVE TPQ SHIRTS!
All sales from this shirt will go to support medical co-pays over the next several months as my wife recovers from a severe traumatic brain injury.
#TPQ5: JAMES KRENDEL-CLARK
October 31, 2019
#TPQ5: JAMES KRENDEL-CLARK
What will James Krendel-Clark, who is doing his best to make mischief, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find our inside!
#TPQ5: LEAH CALLEN
October 31, 2019
#TPQ5: LEAH CALLEN
What will Leah Callen, whose poems can be found in The Malahat Review, Vallum Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, and Barren Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: THE DEATH OF A CLOWN – TOM BLAND (BAD BETTY PRESS)
October 30, 2019
REVIEW: THE DEATH OF A CLOWN – TOM BLAND (BAD BETTY PRESS)
Bukowski and Monica Drake would be proud. This is sex and hard drugs and love and the general misfiring of everyday life when nothing is really everyday life.
#TPQ5: MICHAEL IGOE
October 30, 2019
#TPQ5: MICHAEL IGOE
What will Michael Igoe, author of numerous publications, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MEHER MANDA
October 29, 2019
#TPQ5: MEHER MANDA
What will Meher Manda, a poet, short story writer, culture critic, and educator from Mumbai, India, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: Maté Jarai
October 29, 2019
#TPQ5: Maté Jarai
What will @MateJarai, Editor-in-Chief at Cephalopress, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CARLA CHERRY
October 28, 2019
#TPQ5: CARLA CHERRY
What will Carla Cherry, an English teacher and poet who has published four books through Wasteland Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: ALEX DiFRANCESCO
October 28, 2019
#TPQ5: ALEX DiFRANCESCO
What will Alex DiFrancesco, a multi-genre writer, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: GE SCHWARTZ
October 27, 2019
#TPQ5: GE SCHWARTZ
What will G. E. Schwartz, the author of Only Others Are, World, and Thinking In Tongues, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CAITS MEISSNER
October 27, 2019
#TPQ5: CAITS MEISSNER
What will Caits Meissner, author of the illustrated hybrid poetry book Let It Die Hungry (The Operating System, 2016), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: HEIDI SEABORN
October 26, 2019
#TPQ5: HEIDI SEABORN
What will Heidi Seaborn, the Editorial Director for The Adroit Journal, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SHANNON FROST GREENSTEIN
October 26, 2019
#TPQ5: SHANNON FROST GREENSTEIN
What will Shannon Frost Greenstein, a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SAM ILLINGWORTH
October 25, 2019
#TPQ5: SAM ILLINGWORTH
What will Dr Sam Illingworth, a Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DONNA LYNCH
October 25, 2019
#TPQ5: DONNA LYNCH
What will Donna Lynch, a Bram Stoker Award-nominated horror/dark fiction author & poetic include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: A.A. PARR
October 24, 2019
#TPQ5: A.A. PARR
What will A. A. Parr, whose debut poetry chapbook, What Lasts Beyond the Burning is forthcoming from Nightingale and Sparrow Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI
October 24, 2019
#TPQ5: KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI
What will Khashayar Mohammadi, the host of knife | fork | book’s monthly Chapbook club, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: STEPHEN FURLONG
October 23, 2019
#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
October 23, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: JACQUELINE SAPHRA
October 22, 2019
#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
October 22, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: EMMA BOLDEN
October 21, 2019
#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
October 21, 2019
#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
October 20, 2019
#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
October 20, 2019
#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
October 19, 2019
#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: KARI FLICKINGER
October 18, 2019
#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
October 18, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: ANGELO COLAVITA
October 17, 2019
#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
October 17, 2019
#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
October 16, 2019
#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)
October 16, 2019
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
October 16, 2019
#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!
POETRY IS A SEANCE – KRISTIN GARTH
October 14, 2019
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: DEONTE OSAYANDE
October 14, 2019
#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
October 13, 2019
#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
October 13, 2019
#TPQ5: Bänoo Zan
What will Bänoo Zan, a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KATE GASKIN
October 12, 2019
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
October 12, 2019
#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
October 11, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: STEPHEN PAGE
October 9, 2019
#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: LYNNE SCHMIDT
October 7, 2019
#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!
POWER OF POETRY #69: KIRBY
October 2, 2019
Omg. In my lifetime, moms were actually accused and hated, disabused themselves, for “making their sons homos.”
#TPQ5: ROBERT FREDE KENTER
September 9, 2019
What will Robert Frede Kenter, Co-editor/publisher at Ice Floe Press, include in today’s #TQP5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CHARLOTTE HAMRICK
September 8, 2019
What will Charlotte Hamrick, Creative Nonfiction Editor for Barren Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JOSEPH FASANO
September 5, 2019
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!
#TPQ5: GLEN WILSON
September 3, 2019
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!
TPQ#5: MANDY SUZANNE-WONG
August 25, 2019
What does Mandy Suzanne-Wong include in her #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: ALEXANDER WALLIS
August 23, 2019
What will Alexander Wallis include in today’s edition of #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CHARLES JENSEN
August 16, 2019
Which books does Charles Jensen, author of Nanopedia, have on his #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
#TPQ5: SAMUEL GUEST
August 13, 2019
Find out who is in Samuel Guest’s #TPQ5?
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#TPQ5: LYD HAVENS
August 9, 2019
What does Lyd Havens put in their list of top 5 books? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5.
#TPQ5: RAN WALKER
July 31, 2019
Who does award winning author, Ran Walker, put in his list of top 5 authors? Find out in this edition of The TPQ 5.
#TPQ5: SUBMIT YOUR LIST
July 25, 2019
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.
POWER OF POETRY #46: rob mclennan
June 18, 2019
For me, writing evolved into a way to better comprehend, articulate and even reshape the world. Now the work that excites me is writing that is exploratory
POWER OF POETRY #35: “Dreams/Facts” – Matthew Mayfield
April 3, 2019
POWER OF POETRY #35: “Facts/Dreams” – Matthew Mayfield: “….I strive to be that ONE person who keeps you closer to Life and one step away from the trigger.”
THE POWER OF POETRY #3: JENNY DRAI
May 28, 2015
“The Power of Poetry” by JENNY DRAI 1. I remember the poem that made me want to be a poet—it was Paul Celan’s “Night Ray” (“Nachtstrahl”) from Poppy and Memory. (I first encountered Celan as an undergraduate German major. Up to that point, I had written almost exclusively fiction