#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JUSTENE DION-GLOWA
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#TPQ5: KEVIN LATIMER
#TPQ5: KEVIN LATIMER
What will Kevin Latimer, a poet & playwright from Cleveland, Ohio, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KEVIN LATIMER
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. Continue reading Review: An Offering, Stewart Sanderson, Tapsalteerie Publishing House
#TPQ5: TIGE ASHTON DeCOSTER
#TPQ5: TIGE ASHTON DeCOSTER
What will Tige DeCoster, a poet, professional bassist, music teacher, and recording artist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: TIGE ASHTON DeCOSTER
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: COURTNEY LeBLANC
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: STEVE HENN
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KOLLEEN CARNEY HOEPFNER
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: MARTIN OTT
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. Continue reading Review: 99 Names of Exile, Kaveh Bassiri (Newfound Poetry)
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: AMORAK HUEY
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KATIE DARBY MULLINS
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. Continue reading REVIEW: HELP IN THE DARK SEASON – JACQUELINE SUSKIN (WRITE BLOODY PUBLISHING)
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: SAMANTHA MERZ
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: MEGAN CRAYNE
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JOSEPH EDWIN HAEGER
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: AMEE NASSRENE BROUMAND
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: GILL McEVOY
REVIEW – SPACE STRUCK BY 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. Continue reading REVIEW – SPACE STRUCK BY PAIGE LEWIS (SARABANDE BOOKS)
#TPQ5: HOKIS
#TPQ5: HOKIS
What will Hokis, founder & senior editor of Headline Poetry and a regular contributor for Reclamation Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: HOKIS
#TPQ5: SARAH WALLIS
#TPQ5: SARAH WALLIS
What will Sarah Wallis, a poet & playwright based in Scotland, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SARAH WALLIS
#TPQ5: TARA LYNN HAWK
#TPQ5: TARA LYNN HAWK
What will Tara Lynn Hawk, author of Rhetorical Wanderlust, and The Dead, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: TARA LYNN HAWK
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: COLIN BANCROFT
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JILL MCELDOWNY
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: BRIAN S. ELLIS
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: SCOTT MANLEY HADLEY
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: PAOLA FERRANTE
#TPQ5: MARY HARWELL SAYLER
#TPQ5: MARY HARWELL SAYLER
What will Mary Harwell Sayler, loves writing poetry, prayers, and anything Bible-based, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MARY HARWELL SAYLER
#TPQ5: EDITOR OF TPQ -CHRIS MARGOLIN
#TPQ5: EDITOR OF TPQ -CHRIS MARGOLIN
What will Chris Margolin, Editor-in-Chief of The Poetry Question, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: EDITOR OF TPQ -CHRIS MARGOLIN
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KEVIN SPENST
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: ISABELLE KENYON
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. Continue reading WE HAVE TPQ SHIRTS!
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JAMES KRENDEL-CLARK
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: LEAH CALLEN
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. Continue reading REVIEW: THE DEATH OF A CLOWN – TOM BLAND (BAD BETTY PRESS)
#TPQ5: MICHAEL IGOE
#TPQ5: MICHAEL IGOE
What will Michael Igoe, author of numerous publications, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MICHAEL IGOE
REVIEW: EMILY AS SOMETIMES THE FOREST WANTS THE FIRE – DARREN C. DEMAREE (HARPOON BOOKS)
Instead, we find a couple working on a relationship – because after-all, they are work. Relationships are wonderful and beautiful and trying and difficult and sometimes we don’t always like the person we love, but it’s not something that we can’t overcome. Continue reading REVIEW: EMILY AS SOMETIMES THE FOREST WANTS THE FIRE – DARREN C. DEMAREE (HARPOON BOOKS)
#TPQ5: MEHER MANDA
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: MEHER MANDA
#TPQ5: Maté Jarai
#TPQ5: Maté Jarai
What will @MateJarai, Editor-in-Chief at Cephalopress, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: Maté Jarai
#TPQ5: CARLA CHERRY
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: CARLA CHERRY
#TPQ5: ALEX DiFRANCESCO
#TPQ5: ALEX DiFRANCESCO
What will Alex DiFrancesco, a multi-genre writer, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ALEX DiFRANCESCO
#TPQ5: GE SCHWARTZ
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: GE SCHWARTZ
#TPQ5: CAITS MEISSNER
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: CAITS MEISSNER
#TPQ5: HEIDI SEABORN
#TPQ5: HEIDI SEABORN
What will Heidi Seaborn, the Editorial Director for The Adroit Journal, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: HEIDI SEABORN
#TPQ5: SHANNON FROST GREENSTEIN
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: SHANNON FROST GREENSTEIN
REVIEW: SELF-PORTRAIT – ELISABETH HORAN (CEPHALO PRESS)
REVIEW: SELF-PORTRAIT – ELISABETH HORAN (CEPHALO PRESS):
What do you do when you must lie on your back? When you can’t stand up for yourself – literally. You make the best of it. You create art like you’ve never created before. Continue reading REVIEW: SELF-PORTRAIT – ELISABETH HORAN (CEPHALO PRESS)
#TPQ5: SAM ILLINGWORTH
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: SAM ILLINGWORTH
#TPQ5: DONNA LYNCH
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: DONNA LYNCH
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR – CHRIS MARGOLIN
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR – CHRIS MARGOLIN
We are a community that thrives because once in a while people find a poem or poet or press they like, and purchase a book. I do this because I love the art of putting words together and making people think about life and all it entails. Continue reading LETTER FROM THE EDITOR – CHRIS MARGOLIN
#TPQ5: A.A. PARR
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: A.A. PARR
#TPQ5: KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI
#TPQ5: STEPHEN FURLONG
#TPQ5: STEPHEN FURLONG
What will Stephen Furlong, author of What Loss Taught Me (Nostrovia! Press), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: STEPHEN FURLONG
#TPQ5: K WEBER
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: K WEBER
REVIEW: UPTALK – KIMMY WALTERS (BOTTLECAP PRESS)
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… Continue reading REVIEW: UPTALK – KIMMY WALTERS (BOTTLECAP PRESS)
#TPQ5: JACQUELINE SAPHRA
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JACQUELINE SAPHRA
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: MANAHIL BANDUKWALA
REVIEW: CROWD SURFING WITH GOD BY ADRIENNE NOVY (HALF MYSTIC PRESS)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: CROWD SURFING WITH GOD BY ADRIENNE NOVY (HALF MYSTIC PRESS)
#TPQ5: EMMA BOLDEN
#TPQ5: EMMA BOLDEN
What will Emma Bolden, Associate Editor-in-Chief for Tupelo Quarterly, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: EMMA BOLDEN
#TPQ5: MATTHEW WALSH
#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? Continue reading #TPQ5: MATTHEW WALSH
#TPQ5: CHLOE N. CLARK
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHLOE N. CLARK
#TPQ5: JEFFREY THOMSON
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JEFFREY THOMSON
#TPQ5: SAMUEL J FOX
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: SAMUEL J FOX
REVIEW: ST. JOHN’S WORT – ALEXUS ERIN (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: ST. JOHN’S WORT – ALEXUS ERIN (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)
#TPQ5: KARI FLICKINGER
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KARI FLICKINGER
#TPQ5: TAMARA BURROSS GRISANTI
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: TAMARA BURROSS GRISANTI
POETRY’S DEAD (UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD) – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS
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). Continue reading POETRY’S DEAD (UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD) – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS
#TPQ5: ANGELO COLAVITA
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: ANGELO COLAVITA
#TPQ5: TRISTA MATEER
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: TRISTA MATEER
#TPQ5: MATT MITCHELL
#TPQ5: MATT MITCHELL
What will Matt Mitchell, a writer from Northeast Ohio, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: MATT MITCHELL
REVIEW: LAST STOP TO SASKATOON – TONY NESCA (SCREAMING SKULL PRESS)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: LAST STOP TO SASKATOON – TONY NESCA (SCREAMING SKULL PRESS)
#TPQ5: ELLORA SUTTON
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: ELLORA SUTTON
#TPQ5: MATTY LAYNE GLASGOW
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! Continue reading #TPQ5: MATTY LAYNE GLASGOW
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #70: KASHIANA SINGH
POETRY IS A SEANCE – KRISTIN GARTH
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. Continue reading POETRY IS A SEANCE – KRISTIN GARTH
#TPQ5: STEVE DENEHAN
#TPQ5: STEVE DENEHAM
What will Steve Denehan, an award winning poet who lives in Kildare, Ireland, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: STEVE DENEHAN
#TPQ5: DEONTE OSAYANDE
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: DEONTE OSAYANDE
#TPQ5: ALINA STEFANESCU
#TPQ5: ALINA STEFANESCU
What will Alina Stefanescu, winner of the 2019 River Heron Poetry Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ALINA STEFANESCU
#TPQ5: Bänoo Zan
#TPQ5: Bänoo Zan
What will Bänoo Zan, a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: Bänoo Zan
#TPQ5: KATE GASKIN
What will Kate Gaskin, winner of the Pamet Award for Forever War (YesYes Books 2020), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: KATE GASKIN
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JANE FLEMING
#TPQ5: Esteban Rodriguez
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: Esteban Rodriguez
REVIEW: FLOWERS I SHOULD HAVE THROWN AWAY YESTERDAY BY ELISA MATVEJEVA (MAIDA VALE PUBLISHING)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: FLOWERS I SHOULD HAVE THROWN AWAY YESTERDAY BY ELISA MATVEJEVA (MAIDA VALE PUBLISHING)
#TPQ5: JESSIE LYNN McMAINS
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JESSIE LYNN McMAINS
#TPQ5: STEPHEN PAGE
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: STEPHEN PAGE
#TPQ5: BOB ECKSTEIN
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: BOB ECKSTEIN
#TPQ5: CHRISTINE TAYLOR
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: CHRISTINE TAYLOR
#TPQ5: ADAM TEDESCO
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: ADAM TEDESCO
REVIEW: WHEN WE WERE FEARSOME BY JOANNA PENN COOPER
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. Continue reading REVIEW: WHEN WE WERE FEARSOME BY JOANNA PENN COOPER
#TPQ5: LYNNE SCHMIDT
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: LYNNE SCHMIDT
#TPQ5: JENNIFER WONG
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JENNIFER WONG
#TPQ5: CRYSTAL IGNATOWSKI
#TPQ5: CRYSTAL IGNATOWSKI
What will Crystal Ignatowski, published in honey and lime, FlyPaper Magazine, Roanoke Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CRYSTAL IGNATOWSKI
#TPQ5: JARED A. CARNIE
#TPQ5: JARED A. CARNIE
What will Jared A. Carnie, author of the novel Waves, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JARED A. CARNIE
#TPQ5: KATHERINE D. MORGAN
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KATHERINE D. MORGAN
#TPQ5: JENNIFER WORTMAN
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: JENNIFER WORTMAN
#TPQ5: ANNABEL MAHONEY
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: ANNABEL MAHONEY
#TPQ5: KEVIN DENSLEY
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KEVIN DENSLEY
POWER OF POETRY #69: KIRBY
Omg. In my lifetime, moms were actually accused and hated, disabused themselves, for “making their sons homos.” Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #69: KIRBY
#TPQ5: KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
#TPQ5: NISHA BHAKOO
#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! Continue reading #TPQ5: NISHA BHAKOO
#TPQ5: SUSAN RICHARDSON
#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
POWER OF POETRY #68: ALEXUS ERIN
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
#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
#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
#TPQ5: SAMUEL DODSON
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
#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
#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
#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
REVIEW: FIELD NOTES ON ORDINARY LOVE – KEITH WILSON (COPPER CANYON PRESS)
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)
#TPQ5: JOHN WILKS
#TPQ5: JOHN WILKS
What will John Wilks, editor of Cerasus Poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JOHN WILKS
#TPQ5: CLAIRE WALKER
What will Claire Walker, co-editor of Atrium poetry webzine, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: CLAIRE WALKER
REVIEW: EVEN CURSES END – CATHERINE GARBINSKY (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)
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
#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
#TPQ5: PETER THABIT JONES
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
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.” Continue reading REVIEW: EVEN THE SAINTS AUDITION – RAYCH JACKSON (BUTTON POETRY)
POWER OF POETRY #67: GIVING VOICE – CHRISTINE BRANDEL
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
REVIEW: LATE FATHER & OTHER POEMS – TAYLOR MALI (QUERCUS REVIEW PRESS)
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
#TPQ5: ASHLEY WAGNER
What will Ashley Wagner, Edith of Ligeia, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ASHLEY WAGNER
#TPQ5: PAUL KOHN
#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
#TPQ5: DANIEL COWPER
What will Daniel Cowper, author of a poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: DANIEL COWPER
#TPQ5: JOSEPH DELGADO
#TPQ5: JOSEPH DELGADO
What will poet, Joseph Delgado, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JOSEPH DELGADO
#TPQ5: MARIA CASTRO DOMINGUEZ
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
#TPQ5: EDWARD VIDAURRE
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
#TPQ5: MARTIN APPLEBY
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
#TPQ5: LAURA DiNOVIS BERRY
What will Laura DiNovis Berry, book reviewer and poet, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: LAURA DiNOVIS BERRY
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 Continue reading REVIEW: FORGET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS (BONE AND INK PRESS)
#TPQ5: ALAN PARRY
#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
REVIEW: SKELETON PARADE – MELA BLUST (APEP PUBLICATIONS)
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)
REVIEW: ADVANTAGES OF BEING EVERGREEN – OLIVER BAEZ BENDORF (CSU POETRY CENTER)
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)
#TPQ5: SALAM WOSU
What will Salam Wosu include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: SALAM WOSU
#TPQ5: ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA
#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
#TPQ5: MATT DUGGAN
#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
REVIEW: HUMAN TETRIS – VI KHI NAO & ALI RAZ (11:11 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)
#TPQ5: JEN ROUSE
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
REVIEW: MOTHER MAY I? – JULIETTE van der MOLEN (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)
[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)
REVIEW: HIJITO – CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ (PLATYPUS PRESS)
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)
REVIEW: BETWEEN THE SPINE: A COLLECTION OF EROTIC LOVE POEMS – ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA (Picture Show Press)
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)
POWER OF POETRY #61: AMANDA EARL
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
REVIEW: THE GIRL WITH THE MOST CAKE: POEMS ABOUT COURTNEY LOVE – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS (BONE & INK PRESS)
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)
POWER OF POETRY #60: ALICIA REBECCA MYERS
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
REVIEW: THE BOY WHO COULDN’T SAY HIS NAME – JOHN LAWRENCE (V. PRESS)
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)
POWER OF POETRY #59: SARAH CAREY
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
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.” Continue reading REVIEW: RUST BELT LOVE SONG – MEGAN NEVILLE (GAME OVER BOOKS)
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? Continue reading REVIEW: WOODWORM – MATT DUGGAN (HEDGEHOG PRESS)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: FORGIVENESS – CHELSEA BUNN (FINISHING LINE PRESS)
POWER OF POETRY #55: FRANCOISE CHOUINARD
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
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. Continue reading REVIEW: THE ONLY WORLDS WE KNOW – MICHAEL LEE (BUTTON POETRY)
REVIEW: RADIANT SOULS – LENEE H. (SELF-PUBLISHED)
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)
REVIEW: CARNIVOROUS – MOYRA DONALDSON (DOIRE PRESS)
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)
REVIEW: MOTEL OF OPPOSABLE THUMBS – STUART ROSS (ANVIL PRESS)
“…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)
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. Continue reading REVIEW: STARVING ROMANTIC – VINCENT PERRONE (11:11 PRESS)
REVIEW: LADY SATURN – WANDA DEGLANE (RHYTHM & BONES)
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)