#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!
poetry
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!
#TPQ5: MATTY LAYNE GLASGOW
October 15, 2019
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!
POWER OF POETRY #70: KASHIANA SINGH
October 15, 2019
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.
REVIEW – THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH BY OLIVER DE LA PAZ (UNIVERSITY OF AKRON PRESS)
October 15, 2019
The writing is as vulnerable as it is nuanced, as arresting as it is confounding. Oliver de la Paz is not afraid to leave the reader reaching for meaning, in effect mimicking the very experiences that compelled the allegory in the first place.
#TPQ5: BARTON D. SMOCK
October 15, 2019
What will Barton Smock, author of Infantcinema, and Ghost Arson, 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: STEVE DENEHAN
October 14, 2019
#TPQ5: STEVE DENEHAM
What will Steve Denehan, an award winning poet who lives in Kildare, Ireland, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#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!
REVIEW: FLOWERS I SHOULD HAVE THROWN AWAY YESTERDAY BY ELISA MATVEJEVA (MAIDA VALE PUBLISHING)
October 10, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: JESSIE LYNN McMAINS
October 10, 2019
#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!
#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: BOB ECKSTEIN
October 9, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: CHRISTINE TAYLOR
October 8, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: ADAM TEDESCO
October 8, 2019
#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!
REVIEW: WHEN WE WERE FEARSOME BY JOANNA PENN COOPER
October 7, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: TRAVIS CRAVEY
October 7, 2019
#TPQ5: TRAVIS CRAVEY
What will Travis Cravey, a mechanic in Southeastern Pennsylvania, include on 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!
#TPQ5: JENNIFER WONG
October 6, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: CRYSTAL IGNATOWSKI
October 6, 2019
#TPQ5: CRYSTAL IGNATOWSKI
What will Crystal Ignatowski, published in honey and lime, FlyPaper Magazine, Roanoke Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JARED A. CARNIE
October 5, 2019
#TPQ5: JARED A. CARNIE
What will Jared A. Carnie, author of the novel Waves, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KATHERINE D. MORGAN
October 5, 2019
#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!
REVIEW: 10 POEMS ABOUT BEES (CANDLESTICK PRESS)
October 4, 2019
The poems here are grounded and quaint. They’re not necessarily trying to say anything larger than themselves, and that’s why I enjoyed them so much.
#TPQ5: JENNIFER WORTMAN
October 4, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: MOLLY EYRE
October 3, 2019
#TPQ5: MOLLY EYRE
What will Annabel Mahoney, EIC of Wellington Street Review & Creative Director of Royal Rose Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: AMUSE GIRL – HANNAH RAYMOND-COX (BURNING EYE BOOKS)
October 3, 2019
REVIEW: AMUSE GIRL – HANNAH RAYMOND-COX (BURNING EYE BOOKS)
The reader finds themself met with images of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood and cobblestone streets, sex scenes and outbreaks of disease.
#TPQ5: KEVIN DENSLEY
October 3, 2019
#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!
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: KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
October 2, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: NISHA BHAKOO
October 2, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: SUSAN RICHARDSON
October 1, 2019
#TPQ5: SUSAN RICHARDSON
What will Susan Richardson, Best of the Net Nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #68: ALEXUS ERIN
October 1, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: VIRGIL KAY
October 1, 2019
#TPQ5: VIRGIL KAY
What will Virgil Kay, the Editor of Fowlpox Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: LAUREN DAVIS
September 30, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: SAMUEL DODSON
September 30, 2019
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
#TPQ5: ANNE LEIGH PARRISH
September 29, 2019
#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!
#TPQ5: CATHERINE GRAHAM
September 29, 2019
#TPQ5: CATHERINE GRAHAM
What will Catherine Graham, an award-winning Toronto-based writer, include in her #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DANIELLE ROSE
September 28, 2019
#TPQ5: DANIELLE ROSE
What will Danielle Rose, the managing editor of Dovecote Magazine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: PAUL BROOKES
September 28, 2019
What will Paul Brookes, editor of the Wombwell Rainbow Interviews, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: FIELD NOTES ON ORDINARY LOVE – KEITH WILSON (COPPER CANYON PRESS)
September 27, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: SASCHA AKHTAR
September 27, 2019
What will Sascha A. Akhtar, author of three published poetry collections with Salt, Shearsman & ZimZalla UK, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JOHN WILKS
September 27, 2019
#TPQ5: JOHN WILKS
What will John Wilks, editor of Cerasus Poetry, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CLAIRE WALKER
September 26, 2019
What will Claire Walker, co-editor of Atrium poetry webzine, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: EVEN CURSES END – CATHERINE GARBINSKY (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)
September 26, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: RACHEL CRUEA
September 26, 2019
#TPQ5: RACHEL CRUEA
What will Rachel Cruea,
a poetry editor for GASHER, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: PETER THABIT JONES
September 25, 2019
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!
#TPQ5: THOMAS McCOLL
September 25, 2019
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!
REVIEW: EVEN THE SAINTS AUDITION – RAYCH JACKSON (BUTTON POETRY)
September 24, 2019
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.”
POWER OF POETRY #67: GIVING VOICE – CHRISTINE BRANDEL
September 24, 2019
POWER OF POETRY #66: GIVING VOICE – CHRISTINE BRANDEL
“When I was growing up, the term for people who didn’t talk was dumb.”
#TPQ5: KERRY JAMES EVANS
September 24, 2019
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!
POWER OF POETRY #66: CATHERINE GARBINSKY
September 24, 2019
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…
#TPQ5: NORB AIKIN
September 24, 2019
What will Norb Aikin, author and a Mental Health Advocate, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: LATE FATHER & OTHER POEMS – TAYLOR MALI (QUERCUS REVIEW PRESS)
September 23, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: ASHLEY WAGNER
September 23, 2019
#TPQ5: ASHLEY WAGNER
What will Ashley Wagner, Edith of Ligeia, include on today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DANIEL COWPER
September 22, 2019
What will Daniel Cowper, author of a poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: OLIVER de la PAZ
September 21, 2019
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!
#TPQ5: A.W. FRENCH
September 21, 2019
What will A.W. French, host of Page Fright: A Literary Podcast, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DARREN C. DEMAREE
September 20, 2019
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!
#TPQ5: JOHN LaPINE
September 20, 2019
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?
REVIEW: 61 CENTRAL – INK (FINISHING LINE PRESS)
September 19, 2019
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.
REVIEW: DAD, REMEMBER YOU ARE DEAD – JACQUELINE SAPHRA (NINE ARCHES PRESS)
September 19, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: MARIA CASTRO DOMINGUEZ
September 19, 2019
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!
#TPQ5: EDWARD VIDAURRE
September 18, 2019
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!
#TPQ5: SHANNON BRAMER
September 18, 2019
What will Shannon Bramer, author of TRAPSONGS: three plays, is forthcoming from Book*hug in 2020, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JAKE BAILEY
September 17, 2019
What will Jake Bailey, a schizotypal confessionalist and the co-editor of poetry for Lunch Ticket, include in today’s #TPQ5? FInd out inside!
REVIEW: EVERY BIRD IS A MIRACLE – TARA ROEDER & ARMAN SAFA (NEW MICHIGAN PRESS)
September 16, 2019
…an ode to the complexity of relationships and how often we may be hiding in order to sustain someone else
#TPQ5: MARTIN APPLEBY
September 16, 2019
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!
#TPQ5: LAURA DiNOVIS BERRY
September 14, 2019
What will Laura DiNovis Berry, book reviewer and poet, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: FORGET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME – JESSIE LYNN McMAINS (BONE AND INK PRESS)
September 13, 2019
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
#TPQ5: TRAVIS CHI WING LAU
September 13, 2019
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!
#TPQ5: ALAN PARRY
September 12, 2019
#TPQ5: ALAN PARAY
What will Alan Paray, Published poet and playwright from Merseyside, England, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: SKELETON PARADE – MELA BLUST (APEP PUBLICATIONS)
September 12, 2019
Because of this she believes pain accrued is simply part of life and develops a calloused outlook on love and sex.
REVIEW: ADVANTAGES OF BEING EVERGREEN – OLIVER BAEZ BENDORF (CSU POETRY CENTER)
September 11, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: ROSS ROBBINS
September 11, 2019
What will Ross Robbins, author of The Three EPs, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#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: A.M. JUSTER
September 7, 2019
What will A.M. Juster include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MARK ANTONY OWEN
September 7, 2019
What will Mark Antony Owen include in today’s edition of #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #63: DANIEL GUSTAFSSON
September 6, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA
September 6, 2019
#TPQ5: ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA
What will Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, author of Between the Spine, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: IF THE GIRL NEVER LEARNS – SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN (BRICK MANTEL BOOKS)
September 6, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: MATT DUGGAN
September 5, 2019
#TPQ5: MATT DUGGAN
What will Matt Dugan, author of
Woodworm (Hedgehog Poetry Press), include one today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #62: ERNESTO CEPEDA
September 5, 2019
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.
#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: Carlos Andrés Gómez
September 4, 2019
What will Carlos Andrés Gómez, author of Hijito, 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!
REVIEW: MOTHER MAY I? – JULIETTE van der MOLEN (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)
September 3, 2019
[This] is a haunting and eye opening collection which recounts heartbreaking personal experiences being both mother and mothered
#TPQ5: MEGHA SOOD
September 2, 2019
What will Megha Sood, National level poetry finalist in Poetry Matters Prize for 2019, include in today’s #TPQ5? Click to find out!
REVIEW: BETWEEN THE SPINE: A COLLECTION OF EROTIC LOVE POEMS – ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA (Picture Show Press)
August 30, 2019
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.
#TPQ5: CLAIRE MILLIKIN
August 29, 2019
What did Claire Millikin, the author of 6 full-length books of poetry, include on her #TPQ5? Find out in today’s edition!
POWER OF POETRY #61: AMANDA EARL
August 29, 2019
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.
POWER OF POETRY #60: ALICIA REBECCA MYERS
August 27, 2019
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.
REVIEW: THE PROTECTION OF GHOSTS – NATALIE LINH BOLDERSTON (V. PRESS)
August 27, 2019
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.
TPQ#5: MANDY SUZANNE-WONG
August 25, 2019
What does Mandy Suzanne-Wong include in her #TPQ5? Find out inside!