#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
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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
#TPQ5: ROB TAYLOR
What will Rob Taylor, guest editor of the 2019 edition of The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Biblioasis, 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: ROB TAYLOR
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
#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
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
REVIEW – THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH BY OLIVER DE LA PAZ (UNIVERSITY OF AKRON PRESS)
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. Continue reading REVIEW – THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH BY OLIVER DE LA PAZ (UNIVERSITY OF AKRON PRESS)
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: 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
#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: 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
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
#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: 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
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: JAYE SIMPSON
Who will Jaye Simpson, queer indigenous trans woman trying to survive the end of the world, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside! Continue reading #TPQ5: JAYE SIMPSON
POWER OF POETRY #62: ERNESTO CEPEDA
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. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #62: ERNESTO CEPEDA
#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: 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: BLACK JAM – MATTHEW HAIGH (BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS
breathtaking flights of fancy that will give you the bends before undercutting these mercurial moments with a healthy dose of dark humour. These balloons have anchors. Continue reading REVIEW: BLACK JAM – MATTHEW HAIGH (BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS
POWER OF POETRY: #52 ELISABETH HORAN
I can’t go to work and say to a colleague: I stay up late at night imagining animals being hit in the road over and over… Continue reading POWER OF POETRY: #52 ELISABETH HORAN
REVIEW: OUT OF THE SKY – MICHAEL PRIHODA (HESTERGLOCK PRESS)
Is it worth all the struggles and hassles and deductions only to die in the end? Should it all just be sped up? But more importantly, what happens when you don’t have a choice? Continue reading REVIEW: OUT OF THE SKY – MICHAEL PRIHODA (HESTERGLOCK PRESS)
REVIEW: CHANDELIER – ZACH JACKSON (BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS)
I have authored a devil in me to cull in meto lace these boots with rainbows and wade the bogs to Breathe smoke in the cryogenyBreak dismal syntaxof existing as abomination — from “Lottery” Think back to before the digital sky overshadowed the world. Think back to small hands, poppy seeds, summer scenery, vermillion skies, and the sound of a film spool falling off its … Continue reading REVIEW: CHANDELIER – ZACH JACKSON (BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS)
REVIEW: WHAT I KNOW [HOW TO DO] – MICHAEL GARRIGAN (FINISHING LINE PRESS)
There is not a right or wrong way. There is only advice. There is only a suggestion of what you might need – if you were here, and I was not alone. Continue reading REVIEW: WHAT I KNOW [HOW TO DO] – MICHAEL GARRIGAN (FINISHING LINE PRESS)
REVIEW: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING MUST BE DESTROYED – COLETTE ARRAND (SPLIT LIP PRESS)
Music provides a table of contents for life. It doesn’t always make sense, but it’s the order of things and it tries to present some pretty scenery. Continue reading REVIEW: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING MUST BE DESTROYED – COLETTE ARRAND (SPLIT LIP PRESS)
REVIEW: HEROINES ON THE BLUE PENINSULA – BECKY VARLEY-WINTER (V. PRESS)
It’s the wondering if we have purpose or if we are allowed to change, or if we are stuck with the who that we are even we are not who thought we could be. Continue reading REVIEW: HEROINES ON THE BLUE PENINSULA – BECKY VARLEY-WINTER (V. PRESS)
REVIEW: TEN POEMS ABOUT HORSES – SELECTED BY ALISON BRACKENURY (CANDLESTICK PRESS)
“…the attitude and actions of horses have not changed. They live, love, falter, get dragged around, manipulated, fed, ridden, and eventually buried. Sound familiar?” Continue reading REVIEW: TEN POEMS ABOUT HORSES – SELECTED BY ALISON BRACKENURY (CANDLESTICK PRESS)
REVIEW: HUGE CLOUDY – BILL CARTY (OCTOPUS BOOKS)
“We are maps to the present and the past. An erasure poem of everything that has been a part of our life. It’s cloudy, dense, and filled with fog. And then everything repeats…” Continue reading REVIEW: HUGE CLOUDY – BILL CARTY (OCTOPUS BOOKS)
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.” Continue reading REVIEW: FAIR DAY IN AN ANCIENT TOWN – GREG ALLENDORF (BRAIN MILL PRESS)
REVIEW: SKELETON OF A RUINED SONG – BOLA OPALEKE (ICE FLOE PRESS)
Wars are waged. Bodies are born and bathed and dying. Language is lost. Friends and lovers, too. If we are “guardians of God’s words” then what is it exactly that we are guarding Continue reading REVIEW: SKELETON OF A RUINED SONG – BOLA OPALEKE (ICE FLOE PRESS)
REVIEW: EMMA – GABRIEL OLADIPO (GHOST CITY PRESS)
She’s taking understated moments from life and creating fantastic poems around them, bring a whole new meaning to day-to-day moments. Continue reading REVIEW: EMMA – GABRIEL OLADIPO (GHOST CITY PRESS)
POWER OF POETRY #45: BOLA OPALEKE
It is how both can have their salvations split in two in a single process. I think it was Jericho Brown that said: “Poetry has its own language”. Nothing can be truer in my opinion. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #45: BOLA OPALEKE
REVIEW: THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF – KIRBY (PERMANENT SLEEP PRESS)
Kirby’s poem had to be read twice and three times and more because it grips you by the throat and doesn’t let go. Continue reading REVIEW: THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF – KIRBY (PERMANENT SLEEP PRESS)
REVIEW: NANOPEDIA – CHARLES JENSEN (TINDERBOX EDITIONS)
It’s an encyclopedia of the seedy, the attractive, the “I” of life within modern times and modern body. It’s sort of like the words many want to say, but then get caught up in the moment, and can’t remember what they were thinking anymore. Continue reading REVIEW: NANOPEDIA – CHARLES JENSEN (TINDERBOX EDITIONS)
REVIEW: I GAVE BIRTH TO ALL THE GHOSTS HERE – LYD HAVENS (NOSTROVIA! PRESS)
Reading Lyd Haven’s work makes me want them to win. Makes my real world seem to fade away, replaced with someone I want to see succeed despite and because of their troubles. Continue reading REVIEW: I GAVE BIRTH TO ALL THE GHOSTS HERE – LYD HAVENS (NOSTROVIA! PRESS)
REVIEW: THE BONEYARD – JULIA MADSEN (TREMBLING PILLOW PRESS)
There is a misconception of place, time, and atmosphere of the Heartland. It’s not always calm. It’s not rolling hills and farmland and nice people who do nice things for other nice people, and continue their existence in a silo of that same nice feeling. Continue reading REVIEW: THE BONEYARD – JULIA MADSEN (TREMBLING PILLOW PRESS)
REVIEW: WHEN I AM A FAMOUS PERSON – JOSEPH HAEGER (OPTOGRAPHY PRESS)
Generally, I will take another sip of water (but it’s really vodka) and make deep eye contact with whomever I’m speaking to, whether it’s the niece Lily or the Prime Minister of Britain. — from “When I am President of the United States” I remember the day that Kurt Cobain died, sitting on my neighbor’s couch, crying to the Kurt Loder MTV News report. I … Continue reading REVIEW: WHEN I AM A FAMOUS PERSON – JOSEPH HAEGER (OPTOGRAPHY PRESS)
REVIEW: LIBRARY OF SMALL CATASTROPHES – ALISON C. ROLLINS (COPPER CANYON PRESS)
But, body is language. Code talking is language. Coding is language. Even “math is poetic in nature;” It’s just that people aren’t too interested in listening to that which they don’t care to understand, let alone anything poetic. Continue reading REVIEW: LIBRARY OF SMALL CATASTROPHES – ALISON C. ROLLINS (COPPER CANYON PRESS)
POWER OF POETRY #36: Hasan Namir
I saw poetry as much more complex and rewarding than I had originally thought it would be over the years. Poetry is the one form that can take the readers to another level of meaning and power. Continue reading POWER OF POETRY #36: Hasan Namir
REVIEW: Mud Woman – Joanna Penn Cooper & R. Bratten Weiss (Dancing Girl Press)
Over the course of your correspondence, you begin to discuss your dreams. Begin, in fact, to have dreams that echo the other’s. There is a house, creepy yet somehow luminous. Stables. Treasure, possibly, among the muck. But should you be there? Who (or what) lurks in the dim? – JPC from “You Correspond with a Woman in Ohio” Three days of rain and in the … Continue reading REVIEW: Mud Woman – Joanna Penn Cooper & R. Bratten Weiss (Dancing Girl Press)