I was inspired to write this poem by two poets, Rachel Mennies and Marie Howe. I loved the way Mennies, in her book, The Naomi…
We are beyond ecstatic to have Tomashi Jackson’s Blessed Be the Rock for the cover of the 2024 Ocean State Review, a work that perfectly…
Zebrun’s characters, far from the pomp and ceremony of the Vatican, are the Italian and Irish working men and women of New York. In the…
“Lately I’ve been practicing to stay.” says the speaker in the prologue poem, “What the Sea Told Me.” And from there, as if on a…
Nick Rees Gardner’s linked stories portray people as they are: alternately hilarious, desperate, resilient, broken. For the characters contained in Delinquents, the crux is determining…
The baby in “Uncanny” could be a newborn or a poem—it tracks the amazement we bring to a creation that we’ve had little nothing to…
Though not esoteric, the poems are certainly not easy either. They are by turns abstract and concrete, tender and brutal, glib and sincere. They don’t…
Pui Ying Wong’s book of poems, Fanling in October, is both restrained and deeply surprising. She is a traveler, not just across borders, but across…
Loop Light awhile under the door then gone then you out into the dawn and then me back asleep.
Unfiltered and full of dark humor, desire, and sexual energy, Southwick’s debut poetry collection, Orchid Alpha, unpacks the id of the modern day woman. The…