#TPQ5: LARISSA SHMAILO
What will Larissa Shmailo, a poet, novelist, translator, editor, curator, and critic, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
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#TPQ5: QUINTIN COLLINS
#TPQ5: QUINTIN COLLINS
What will Quintin Collins, a writer, editor, and Solstice MFA Program Assistant Director, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #72: NOAH C. LEKAS
POWER OF POETRY #72: NOAH C. LEKAS
I wanted unrestrained access to the divine and I wanted to never have to ask permission or apologize for my ambition.
#TPQ5: ERIC ANDREW NEWMAN
#TPQ5: ERIC ANDREW NEWMAN
What will Eric Andrew Newman, Fiction Editor of Okay Donkey, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JANET M ROGERS
#TPQ5: JANET M ROGERS
What will Janet M Rogers, a Mohawk/Tuscarora, lives on the Six Nations Reserve, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CAROLINE SHEA
#TPQ5: CAROLINE SHEA
What will Caroline Shea, author of Lambflesh (Kelsay Books, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CASSIE DONISH
#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)
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
#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
#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
#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
#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
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
#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
#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
#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
#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)
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
#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
#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!
REVIEW: HELP IN THE DARK SEASON – JACQUELINE SUSKIN (WRITE BLOODY PUBLISHING)
he visceral memories echo Sharon Olds and Rachel McKibbens, taking on a confessional style that does not flinch at trauma but also makes space for complexity of loving one’s parents even as abuse continues.
#TPQ5: SAMANTHA MERZ
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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)
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
#TPQ5: SARAH WALLIS
What will Sarah Wallis, a poet & playwright based in Scotland, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: COLIN BANCROFT
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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!
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
#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
#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)
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: MANAHIL BANDUKWALA
#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!
POWER OF POETRY #70: KASHIANA SINGH
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.
#TPQ5: JANE FLEMING
#TPQ5: JANE FLEMING
What will Jane Fleming, author of Ocotillo Worship (APEP Publications, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #69: KIRBY
Omg. In my lifetime, moms were actually accused and hated, disabused themselves, for “making their sons homos.”
REVIEW: EVEN THE SAINTS AUDITION – RAYCH JACKSON (BUTTON 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.”
REVIEW: FORGET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS (BONE AND INK PRESS)
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
REVIEW: RUST BELT LOVE SONG – MEGAN NEVILLE (GAME OVER BOOKS)
“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.”
REVIEW: WOODWORM – MATT DUGGAN (HEDGEHOG PRESS)
If you could reshape history, would you stay woodworm, or would you scrape, claw, stab, and squeeze your way to the top?
REVIEW: FORGIVENESS – CHELSEA BUNN (FINISHING LINE PRESS)
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.
REVIEW: THE ONLY WORLDS WE KNOW – MICHAEL LEE (BUTTON POETRY)
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.
REVIEW: STARVING ROMANTIC – VINCENT PERRONE (11:11 PRESS)
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.
REVIEW: BUILD YOURSELF A BOAT – CAMONGHNE FELIX (HAYMARKET BOOKS)
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.
REVIEW: FAIR DAY IN AN ANCIENT TOWN – GREG ALLENDORF (BRAIN MILL PRESS)
“…he has taken all the pieces, the histories of hands, waterfalls, sanity hammers, shepherds, and suitors, and built the puzzle only to watch it fall to the floor, and have to put the pieces back in the box.”
REVIEW: WHERE THE ROAD RUNS OUT – GAIA HOLMES (COMMA PRESS)
If Death brings a flash of life before our eyes, and we see each detail of what and how we’ve lived, and everything that was once background became foreground, then Where the Road Runs Out, the new collection from Gaia Holmes is that flash.
REVIEW: SARAH BARTLETT – FREUD BLAH BLAH BLAH (Rye House Press)
My body wants to meet your body in a dark alley and say things in Braille. When I leave notes on your pillow it’s supposed to be a gimmick. Still, here we are in love, careening toward death like a flower. Have you ever written a letter, an email, or a text message, and then…
REVIEW: DELPHINE BEDIENT – DOWN AND OUT ON A YACHT
DISASTER Men kept smiling at you today, but you felt like a disaster. You were an influenza epidemic, you were Hurricane Katrina, you were a four-car pileup, and there they were, these men, smiling. Dear Insecurities, We have company. We have found a friend. It’s okay to step out of the shadows, talk to…
REVIEW: CLEMENTINE VON RADICS – HOME
It’s Just So Strange He used to love me, and now he’s just a stranger who happens to know all my secrets Clementine von Radics knows her way around a heart – yours, those she keeps close, and sometimes her own. In her newest collection, Home (Where Are You Press), she is not afraid to leave everything…