In Yours, Creature, her fourth full-length collection, Jessica Cuello plays on a common confusion of names: Is Frankenstein the creator or the “Creature”? In Cuello’s…
Years ago, in the messy wake of what we euphemistically call a “life event”—in my case, the end of a long relationship—at first, in mild…
Peter Bennet’s poetry evokes a sense of place and history—in this case, Northumberland , where the poet has lived for most of his life—with such…
One of these creative bright spots was the release of Drew Pisarra’s new volume of poetry, Periodic Boyfriends. Released in June 2023, Pisarra’s latest sonnet…
I began thinking about writing this poem when Becky my wife and I visited our dear friend at her home on Ireland’s River Shannon. One…
Nikia Chaney is the author of us mouth (University of Hell Press, 2018) and two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please…
My poem “Metasequoia” came out of moments accumulated over years in a room with art situated on walls and pedestals, all of which I moved…
One of the worst parts of depression, to me, is not wanting anything and just moving like a numb slug through life. So “Anything at…
The poems are written as lists to try to give my reader and I some distance from Mann’s work even as I obsessively explore “what…
Employing epistolary forms, radical lineation, and an almost-violent use of the slash, McLellan’s poems move between lust and fear. They exist in intercepted moments that…