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…
This story started maybe twenty years ago with some anecdotes my biologist cousin shared about her field research, including observing Canada Jays in the north…
This poem came to be when I was very sick with something called SARS-CoV-2. The city was so quiet, except for the sirens. You could…
I drafted “Poem on My Birthday” during the very early hours of December 18, 2019, my 35th. I had just completed several months of studying…
Abounding with the events of the everyday, hallucinations, observations, tributes, and of course, birds, Ornitheology is a book of second-glances and rereading, where meaning is…