One theme I continue to revisit in my poetry is the way in which masculinity, or toxic masculinity, is learned and expressed through behaviors that…
I am giving you a version. By which I mean I mask and I mask and I mask and I mask. I tell myself: wake…
The occasion for “The God Machine” was a ringing in my office.
Usually I write with an image or phrase guiding me until I find the poem’s shape based on the discovery I make (structure as a…
Poems in “the unit” form attempt to simulate or approximate the musical conversation* between instruments in a Free Jazz performance. The language, ideas, and phrases…
“Nazi Driver” is one of the first ones in which I abandoned all acrobatics meant for the page and returned my focus to sound and…
Barbara Drake writes directly form the Whitman Tradition. On this 200th anniversary of Whitman’s birth, The Road to Lilac Hill reverently binds the Whitman Tradition…
As a core principle of her teaching, Wakoski would remind her university students that you must observe. Listen. Look. When others turn-away, as a social…
Join us to celebrate the Ocean State Review’s tenth anniversary with award-winning writers, Colin Channer, Robin Hemley, Hester Kaplan, and Penelope Cray! The event is…
Encapsulating the life of a 17th-century naturalist in 80 pages of verse is no easy task, and North Carolina-based poet Alyse Bensel rises to the…