#TPQ5: SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN
What will Sue William Silverman, who teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
Tag: poetry
POWER OF POETRY #77: CHRISTINA CIUFO
POWER OF POETRY #77: CHRISTINA CIUFO
Each poetic word, each lyrical line, each tone evoked and each enchanting rhyme within a poem ignites the orange-golden flames within the recesses of our minds and flickers its’ illuminating light behind our eyes.
#TPQ5: LAUREN LICONA
#TPQ5: LAUREN LICONA
What will Lauren Licona, Latinx poet based in Boston, MA, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JULIO ENRIQUEZ-ORNELAS
#TPQ5: JULIO ENRIQUEZ-ORNELAS
What will Julio Enriquez-Ornelas, Assistant Professor at Millikin University, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DAVE HOUSLEY
#TPQ5: DAVE HOUSLEY
What will Dave Housley, author of This Darkness Got to Give, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: TINA MOZELLE BRAZIEL
#TPQ5: TINA MOZELLE BRAZIEL
What will Tina Mozelle Braziel, awarded the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: BECOMING THE BRONZE IDOL – RITA MOOKERJEE (BONE & INK PRESS)
REVIEW: BECOMING THE BRONZE IDOL – RITA MOOKERJEE (BONE & INK PRESS)
This collection helps readjust the way we look at our world and showing that the first step in fixing something broken is to recognize that it needs to be fixed in the first place.
#TPQ5: CHARLENE ELSBY
#TPQ5: CHARLENE ELSBY
What will Charlene Elsby, Philosophy Program Director and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Fort Wayne, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KATIE RIEGEL
#TPQ5: KATIE RIEGEL
What will Katherine Riegel, author of Love Songs from the End of the World (Main Street Rag 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: TAYLOR BANKS
#TPQ5: TAYLOR BANKS
What will Taylor Banks, MFA candidate at Stetson University, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #76: TAMARA BURROSS GRISANTI
POWER OF POETRY #76: TAMARA BURROSS GRISANTI
Entering that space of creation is the only type of churchgoing that has ever spoken to me. It is paying tribute to what I know of the sacred, it is the only way I know how to be prayerful.
POWER OF POETRY: EDITOR’S EDITION – CHRIS MARGOLIN
Paying for it again felt dirty. I didn’t want to. Didn’t mean to. Tried so hard to just move along, but my fingers edged in that direction, teased at where they wanted to be. And I gave in. Closed my eyes, relaxed. Took out my debit card, and gave into the demons.
#TPQ5: ADAM J. GELLINGS
#TPQ5: ADAM J. GELLINGS
What will Adam J. Gellings, poet and instructor from Columbus, Ohio, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MALCOLM TARIQ
#TPQ5: MALCOLM TARIQ
What will Malcolm Tariq, author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf Press, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER SOTO
#TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER SOTO
What will Christopher Soto, a Los Angeles poet, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #74: URNA BOSE
POWER OF POETRY #74: URNA BOSE
One can’t quite put a firm, decisive finger on when, where and how poetry collides, mingles, smudges and spills over into our lives
REVIEW: THE WHIMSY OF DANK JU-JU – SASCHA AURORA AKHTAR
REVIEW: THE WHIMSY OF DANK JU-JU – SASCHA AURORA AKHTAR
Magic is broken unless we understand the trick or allow ourselves to suspend our disbelief and just know that everything is taken care of, and that we are okay.
REVIEW: EMPIRE OF DIRT – THOMAS STEWART (RED SQUIRREL PRESS)
This is not a guide toward love, light, and inspiration. This is not a tribute to finding God through death. This is looking at Death, and letting them know that while it might be a minute, you’ll leave a light on.
#TPQ5: JEFF PEARSON
#TPQ5: JEFF PEARSON
What will Jeff Pearson, an advocate for people with mental illness, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: REBECCA IRENE
#TPQ5: REBECCA IRENE
What will Rebecca Irene, Poetry Editor for The Maine Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #73: JOSEPH RATHGEBER
POWER OF POETRY #73: JOSEPH RATHGEBER
Poets excise words, omit and elide them. They break lines. Might as well break pane-glass windows.
#TPQ5: ERIC LOCHRIDGE
#TPQ5: ERIC LOCHRIDGE
What will Eric Lochridge, author of three poetry chapbooks, include in tiara #TPQ5? Find our inside!
#TPQ5: RAZIELLE AIGEN
#TPQ5: RAZIELLE AIGEN
What will Razielle Aigen, author of, Light Waves The Leaves (above/ground press 2020), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: BETH LONGMAN
#TPQ5: BETH LONGMAN
What will Beth Longman, founder and co-editor of Re-Side magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DAN KNAUSS
#TPQ5: DAN KNAUSS
What will Dan Knauss, who writes, edits, and tries to perform acts of humane, open-source webcraft, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MICHAEL McGILL
#TPQ5: MICHAEL McGILL
What will Michael McGill, a UK poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: BEE WALSH
#TPQ5: BEE WALSH
What will Bee Walsh, author of Manning Up (West 44 Books), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CHRISTINA CIUFO
#TPQ5: CHRISTINA CIUFO
What will Christina Ciufo, a passionate writer, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: A CHOIR OF HONEST KILLERS – BUDDY WAKEFIELD (WRITE BLOODY PUBLISHING)
It is not just a book of confessions, but of acceptance that we can be beautiful and flawed and problematic and good, that the only thing we ought to require of ourselves is the permission to be fully human. Buddy no longer apologizes for fucking things up.
REVIEW: A LIVE THING, CLINGING WITH MANY TEETH – KOLLEEN CARNEY HOEPFNER (SPOOKY GIRLFRIEND PRESS)
REVIEW: A LIVE THING, CLINGING WITH MANY TEETH – KOLLEEN CARNEY HOEPFNER (SPOOKY GIRLFRIEND PRESS)
We’re shown a woman who has to come to terms with pain and discomfort being her new reality. And then the idea of change is more frightening than her continued torture.
#TPQ5: WILL SCHMIT
#TPQ5: WILL SCHMIT
What will Will Schmit, author of Head Lines A Sixty Day Guide to Personal Psalmistry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: WARREN CZAPA
#TPQ5: WARREN CZAPA
What will Warren Czapa, longlisted for the Troubadour International Poetry Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: INEVITABLE IGNITION – KAYT CHRISTENSEN (WIDE EYES PUBLISHING)
Reading each section becomes the experience of the burning fire; it builds and burns and, even as it goes out, smolders and lingers long after it’s gone.
#TPQ5: ALVARO BEDOYA
#TPQ5: ALVARO BEDOYA
What will Alvaro Bedoya, who runs a think tank and legal clinic that protects the privacy rights of immigrants, poor people, and people of color, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SONIA DI PLACIDO
#TPQ5: SONIA DI PLACIDO
What will Sonia Di Placido, poet, writer, and editor, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KAYLEIGH CAMPBELL
What will Kayleigh Campbell, winner of the Gloucestershire Poetry Competition 2019, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: I SHIMMER SOMETIMES, TOO – PORSHA OLAYIWOLA (BUTTON POETRY)
These poems make clear that Olayiwola, current poet laureate of Boston, is just beginning what is sure to be a long and much-lauded tenure in American poetics.
#TPQ5: JIM MEIROSE
#TPQ5: JIM MEIROSE
What will Jim Meirose, author of ‘Le Overgivers au Club de la Résurrection’ (Mannequin Haus), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JOHN PHIPPS
What will John Phipps, a writer, critic and editor, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: TAYLOR MALI
#TPQ5: TAYLOR MALI
What will Taylor Mali, 4-time National Slam Poetry Champion and former voice of all Burger King commercials, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JANE ROSENBERG LaFORGE
#TPQ5: JANE ROSENBERG LaFORGE
What will Jane Rosenberg LaForge, author of six volumes of poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: CALF CANYON – SARAH McCARTT-JACKSON (BRAIN MILL PRESS)
Trying to get away is understandable–hell, it’s even appealing to a certain degree–and it’s here that we can discover what’s so intriguing about McCartt-Jackson’s collection: your history doesn’t allow you to hide from it.
REVIEW: CHOSEN COMPANIONS OF THE GOBLIN – KATHRYN SMITH (OPEN COUNTRY PRESS)
from how people viewed them to how they viewed themselves, we’re given an intimate look at their effects on the world.
POWER OF POETRY #72: MATT NAGIN
POWER OF POETRY #72: MATT NAGIN
Poetry cuts through the bullshit. It declutters spiritually. It is an opportunity to dance, to experiment, to hone new answers to complex problems.
#TPQ5: INK
#TPQ5: INK
What will Ink, who disrupts his neighbors’ dreams by taking recycling out at odd times, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CATHERINE MARENGHI
#TPQ5: CATHERINE MARENGHI
What will Catherine Marenghi, an award-winning poet and memoirist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: C.M. KATE FAULKNER
#TPQ5: C.M. KATE FAULKNER
What will C.M. Kate Faulkner, nonfiction piece “Autopsy” is out now In Against Death: 35 Essays on Living (Anvil Press), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside?
#TPQ5: MICHAEL HALL
#TPQ5: MICHAEL HALL
What will Michael Hall, an up and coming, yet seasoned, poet, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: FORGIVE YOURSELF THESE TINY ACTS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION – JARED SINGER (BUTTON POETRY)
FORGIVE YOURSELF THESE TINY ACTS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION – JARED SINGER @buttonpoetry
“…a manual for the last kid in the kickball line. It’s a must-read for those who can’t remember why they need to remember. It’s for those who sometimes forget they matter.”
REVIEW: MILES OF SKY ABOVE US, MILES OF EARTH BELOW – STEVE DENEHAN (CAJUN MUTT PRESS)
Denehan is sort of like Bukowski, if Bukowski wrote while drinking rather than drunk. It’s proof that poetry doesn’t need to be complicated to tell a damn good story.
#TPQ5: DECEMBER LACE
#TPQ5: DECEMBER LACE
What will December Lace, former professional wrestler, pinup model, & Best of the Net nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER FLAKUS
#TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER FLAKUS
What will Christopher Flakus, co-editor-in-chief of Defunkt Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: RY DOWNEY
#TPQ5: RY DOWNEY
What will Ry Downey, editor in chief of the new poetry magazine, BEATIFIC, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MARY PEELEN
#TPQ5: MARY PEELEN
What will Mary Peelen, winner of the Kithara Book Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: MADE AND UNMADE – EMILY PEREZ (MADHOUSE PRESS)
This collection is about taking stock of your life and how things have changed or remained the same. It is a look at how your perspective shifts over time and people inevitably view you differently as your circumstances transform.
#TPQ5: ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON
#TPQ5: ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON
What will Ellen Chang-Richardson, an emerging poet and the founder of Little Birds Poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: VENUS DAVIS
#TPQ5: VENUS DAVIS
What will Venus Davis, contributor for Marias at Sampaguitas, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: PRIYA DOLMA TAMANG
#TPQ5: PRIYA DOLMA TAMANG
What will Priya Dolma Tamang, writer from the Himalayan state of Sikkim in northeastern India, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: LARISSA SHMAILO
#TPQ5: LARISSA SHMAILO
What will Larissa Shmailo, a poet, novelist, translator, editor, curator, and critic, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: REBOUND, RESTART, RENEW, REBUILD, REJOICE – TIMOTHY OTTE (LITHIC PRESS)
This is the past seen as scenes with edits. This is how family works and doesn’t and how people are more than just reflections of what came before.
#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!
#TPQ5: RONNIE K. STEPHENS
#TPQ5: RONNIE K. STEPHENS
What will Ronnie K. Stephens, a poet, novelist, and essayist with five kids and a pregnant wife, 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!
REVIEW: ONE THING – THEN ANOTHER – CLAIRE KELLY (ECW PRESS)
Her work explores the sheer vastness of the Canadian landscape with a personal lens; experiences we cannot share are made beautiful and engaging.
#TPQ: MELISSA SMITH
What will Melissa Alter Smith, creator of the #TeachLivingPoets hashtag, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: LAUREN E BRAZEAL
What will Lauren Brazeal, author of Gutter (YesYes Books), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: TOM HARDING
What will Tom Harding, Editor of the Northampton Poetry Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JUDE MARR
What will Jude Marr, Director of the Reading-Writing Center and Digital Studio at Florida State University, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: ODES TO LITHIUM – SHIRA ERLICHMAN (ALICE JAMES BOOKS)
This book is, quite simply, indispensable. My only lament is that it does not fit in my pocket, as it is the kind of collection one wishes to have with them at all times, the sort that reminds one how to live with equal parts grief and grace.
#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: JOHN GUZLOWSKI
What will John Guzlowski, winner of the Benjamin Franklin Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer/Montaigne Award, 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: BULL – JAMES ROOME (RED CEILING PRESS)
Though a quick read, it’s unique and candid look at this relationship offers quippy anecdotes and humor.
#TPQ5: GENIA BLUM
What will Genia Blum, a a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, 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: 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!
REVIEW: EVE AND ALL THE WRONG MEN – AVIYA KUSHNER (DANCING GIRL PRESS)
REVIEW: EVE AND ALL THE WRONG MEN – AVIYA KUSHNER (DANCING GIRL PRESS)
Religions converse along with the characters as works of art come alive, translated into the text by the viewer’s keen eye.
#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!