#TPQ5: KATIE MANNING
What will Katie Manning, founding editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
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#TPQ5: RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS
#TPQ5: RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS
What will Rhys Owain Williams, a writer from Swansea, Wales, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: NATASHA GRAHAM
#TPQ5: NATASHA GRAHAM
What will Natascha Graham, artist, poet and writer of literary fiction, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #90: JDG
Poetry moves. It’s transformative, and that transformation can be a catalyst for what we choose to make of ourselves, our stories, and our passions. Poetry is a place we can learn about others and ourselves.
POWER OF POETRY #89: A. A. PARR
I wrote for the joy of it, I wrote to make my mark on the world, I wrote because it bled out of me so quickly dropping it onto paper was the only responsible act I felt I could make.
#TPQ5: JENNY MITCHELL
#TPQ5: JENNY MITCHELL
What will Jenny Mitchell, joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JESSICA L DRAKE-THOMAS
What will Jessica Drake-Thomas, whose newest book, Burials, is forthcoming from CLASH Books this year, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: YANIA PADILLA SIERRA
#TPQ5: YANIA PADILLA SIERRA
What will Yania, a bruja/writer/artist and suicide prevention SME, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: HALA ALYAN
#TPQ5: HALA ALYAN
What will Hala Alyan, Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: ADAM STEINER
#TPQ5: ADAM STEINER
What will Adam Steiner, author of Politics of The Asylum, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: GARETH CULSHAW
What will Gareth Culshaw, whose second collection is out in June by Futurecycle called Shadows of Tryfan, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #88: ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ
I turned to poetry to calm my encroaching anxiety, and I’ve turned to it since as a way to remind myself that I am a part of this world, that I exist within all the good and bad that it presents every day.
#TPQ5: ELIZABETH MOURA
#TPQ5: ELIZABETH MOURA
What will Elizabeth Moura, who lives in a converted factory and works with elders, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MIRIAM CALLEJA
#TPQ5: MIRIAM CALLEJA
What will Miriam Calleja, bilingual poet and Maltese wordsmith, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: AARON POOCHIGIAN
#TPQ5: AARON POOCHIGIAN
What will Aaron Poochigian, whose book “Manhattanite,” won the Able Muse Poetry Prize, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #87: AMEE NASSERENE BROUMAND
POWER OF POETRY #87: AMEE NASSRENE BROUMAND
To attempt to tell all the truth—the kind of truth that slumbers at noon and wakes at midnight—requires slantness. Slantness is the language of night. Slantness is a gap in the facade of mundanity, a way for reality in all of its mystery to seep through the boundaries of language.
#TPQ5: MESLISSA ELEFTHERION
What will Melissa Eleftherion, writer, librarian, and visual artist, include in today’s #tpq? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DAVID L O’NAN
What will David O’Nan, EiC of Fevers of the Mind Poetry & Art Digest, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: BRIANNA SALINAS
Brianna is an emerging Spanish to English translator, a film photographer, an itinerant traveler, and a sometimes poet.
POWER OF POETRY #86: THOMAS STEWART
POWER OF POETRY #88: THOMAS STEWART
A word can muster a thousand thoughts. A poem can create a universe.
#TPQ5: SOL
#TPQ5: SOL
What will Sol Camarena Medina, a mad lesbian poet from Valencia, Spain who’s also a loud laugher and lover, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: THOMAS STEWART
#TPQ5: THOMAS STEWART
What will Thomas Stewart, whose poetry pamphlet, ’empire of dirt’, was published by Red Squirrel Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CAITLIN SCARANO
#TPQ5: CAITLIN SCARANO
What will Caitlin Scarano, whose debut collection, Do Not Bring Him Water, was released in Fall 2017 by Write Bloody, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KATIE O’BRIEN
#TPQ5: KATIE O’BRIEN
What will katie o’brien, poet, community worker, queer activist, and Netflix enthusiast, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: RAINE GEOGHEGAN
#TPQ5: RAINE GEOGHEGAN
What will Raine Geoghegan, poet, writer, and Performance Coach, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: KRISTEN SWANGUARIN
#TPQ5: KRISTEN SWANGUARIN
What will Kristen Swanguarin, collector of poetry books and animal teeth, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #85: WILL SCHMIT
POWER OF POETRY #85: WILL SCHMIT
The poem is an artifact. Art as fact in the face a world determined to ignore the contemplative plaintiff. To hold the pen lightly enough to allow perspective to shift is to be attentive to the ghosts of chance, challenge, and chagrin.
#TPQ5: SHANNON SANKEY
#TPQ: SHANNON SANKEY
What will Shannon Sankey, author of We Ran Rapturous (The Atlas Review 2019), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: ILLY KOTZ
#TPQ5: ILLY KOTZ
What will Illy Kotz, an English-Hungarian artist, writer and poet living in Bristol, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: STEVE KISTULENTZ
#TPQ5: STEVE KISTULENTZ
What will Steve Kistulentz, author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Mating Calls of the Dead (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: FLOSE BOURSIQUOT
#TPQ5: FLOSE BOURSIQUOT
What will Flose Boursiquot, a Haitian-born poet and writer, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #84: BARTON SMOCK
POWER OF POETRY #84: BARTON SMOCK
You can’t catch a fish with the shadow of a bird. But you tried, right? You tried in that poem your friend wrote, the one where a stone ate a star. And is maybe still eating.
#TPQ5: JOSHUA ROTHES
#TPQ5: JOSHUA ROTHES
What will Joshua Rothes, editor/publisher of Sublunary Editions, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: Z.M. WISE
#TPQ5: Z.M. WISE
What will Z.M. Wise, Co-Editor at Transcendent Zero Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CARLIE BLUME
#TPQ5: CARLIE BLUME
What will Carlie Blume, a Vancouver, Canada born writer of poetry and fiction, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SANDRA T
#TPQ5: SANDRA T
What will Sandra T, poet and storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: OSCAR HOKEAH
#TPQ5: OSCAR HOKEAH
What will Oscar Hokeah, author of the forthcoming novel Unsettled Between, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #83: KARI FLICKINGER
POWER OF POETRY #83: KARI FLICKINGER
Poetry has turned me into a piece of broken technology, searching the horizon for symbols. It has estranged me from everyone I once loved, from every notion I ever thought to belong to.
#TPQ5: FRAN-CLAIRE KENNEY
#TPQ5: FRAN-CLAIRE KENNEY
What will Fran-Claire Kenney, Queer writer, filmmaker, and student, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CHRISTINA THATCHER
#TPQ5: CHRISTINA THATCHER
What will Christina Thatcher, Creative Writing Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #82: MDSHall
POWER OF POETRY #82: MDSHall
We are soothsayers and truthsayers; warriors armed with words to be placed into action; protectors of the Univearth in search of the multiverse…
#TPQ5: SARA PISAK
What will Sara Pisak, Contributing Editor at Helen: A Literary Magazine and Staff Reviewer at Glass Poetry Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: AICHA MARTINE THIAM
What will A. Martine, a trilingual writer, musician and artist, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: MISS MACROSS
What will miss macross, multigenre writer who enjoys watching mecha and taking naps, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SK GROUT
What will SK Grout, author of the micro chapbook “to be female is to be interrogated”, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: DISTANCE TRAVELED – MICHAEL CHIN (BENT WINDOW BOOKS)
The janitors clean up the mess left from cheers, jeers, and broken hearts. The lights go out. You say goodbye to the players, loved ones, enemies, and continue with the game of life. As long as the ball keeps bouncing, life will continue.
#TPQ5: ANNE GRAUE
#TPQ5: ANNE GRAUE
What will Anne Graue, author of a chapbook, Fig Tree in Winter, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: AMANDA EARL
What will Amanda Earl, managing editor of Bywords.ca, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: HOW MY CAT SAVED MY LIFE AND OTHER POEMS – JULIETTE SEBOCK (BOTTLECAP PRESS)
They are our pain. Our love. Our fight through relationships when we can’t do it ourselves. They need food and water and shelter but don’t always have that option – even if they’ve been there for years.
#TPQ5: KEITH MARK GABOURY
#TPQ5: KEITH MARK GABOURY
What will Keith Mark Gaboury, whose work appears in Poetry Quarterly and New Millennium Writings, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #81: LAUREN BRAZEAL
POWER OF POETRY #80: LAUREN BRAZEAL
Her words pressed onto my consciousness with the immediacy of a blade to the throat, “It is not your right to feel powerless. Better people than you were powerless.”
#TPQ5: JANNA GRACE
#TPQ5: JANNA GRACE
What will Janna Grace, editor of Lamplit Underground, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: STEVEN ALVAREZ
What will Steven Alvarez, author of The Codex Mojaodicus, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: DEIRDRE FAGAN
What will Deirdre Fagan, a reviewer for Orange Blossom Review, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL & FULL OF MONSTERS – COURTNEY LeBLANC (VEGETARIAN ALCOHOLIC PRESS)
It’s who we are when least expected. It’s the big feelings we can’t explain. It’s the reason we cower in the dark. It’s the reason we raise our voices to those we are said to love. It’s the reason some loves end or begin or don’t.
#TPQ5: DONNA VORREYER
#TPQ5: DONNA VORREYER
What will Donna Vorreyer, author of Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: JAKE WILD HALL
#TPQ5: JAKE WILD HALL
What will Jake Wild Hall, one half of Bad Betty Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
THE POWER OF POETRY #80: STEPHEN FURLONG
THE POWER OF POETRY #80: STEPHEN FURLONG
He only stopped when he recognized his shoe was untied. He held such reverence for the laces and he asked us how we tied our shoes.
#TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER MILES
#TPQ5: CHRISTOPHER MILES
What will Christopher Miles, whose first book of poems, Armor & Ornament, was published this fall, include in today’s #TPQ? Find out inside!
REVIEW: LITTLE ENVELOPE OF EARTH CONDITIONS – CORI A. WINROCK (ALICE JAMES BOOKS)
Most of all, it’s about when body meets the inside of the body because the outside just doesn’t make sense anymore. It’s when space feels like a metaphor for a much larger universe, and you wish for a black hole within which to hide.
#TPQ5: KRISTOPHER BIERNATSKY
#TPQ5: KRISTOPHER BIERNATSKY
What will Kristopher Biernatsky, founder of Dink Press, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CLARE E. POTTER
#TPQ5: CLARE E. POTTER
What will clare e. potter, a poet who is lucky to collaborate with other inspiring artists, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: CAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS
#TPQ5: CAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas, ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a seven-time Best of the Net nominee, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #79: VENUS DAVIS
POWER OF POETRY #79: VENUS DAVIS
I knew that writing wasn’t about being the best – it’s about expressing yourself and being happy with what you’ve written. It’s not a chance for validation.
#TPQ5: ERIK-JOHN FUHRER
#TPQ5: ERIK-JOHN FUHRER
What will Erik Fuhrer, author of every time you die (Alien Buddha Press), include in today’s#TPQ5? Find out inside!
REVIEW: BOAT BURNED – KELLY GRACE THOMAS (YESYES BOOKS)
REVIEW: BOAT BURNED – KELLY GRACE THOMAS (YESYES BOOKS)
I found myself walking away from it often, not out of discontent but out of a need to process the full brunt of the emotions laid bare by the author.
#TPQ5: GALE MARIE THOMPSON
#TPQ5: GALE MARIE THOMPSON
What will Gale Marie Thompson, author of Helen or My Hunger (YesYes Books, 2020), include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
POWER OF POETRY #78: G.E. SCHWARTZ
POWER OF POETRY #77: G.E. SCHWARTZ
And with that light poetry has the power to usher us into a brave new world, filling our senses with the energy of creation where every bird, tree, branch, and blossom vibrates as if by immance.
#TPQ5: DAVID MARTIN
#TPQ5: DAVID MARTIN
What will David Martin, organizer for the Single Onion Poetry Series, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside
#TPQ5: LAURA WAINWRIGHT
#TPQ5: LAURA WAINWRIGHT
What will Laura Wainwright, author of a book of literary criticism, New Territories in Modernism: Anglophone Welsh Writing 1930-1949, include in today’s #TPQ5? Find out inside!
#TPQ5: SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN
#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!
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!
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!