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…
Eliding incident or back-story, the watertight poems Vincenz has crafted over thirty years and published in over twenty books are usually rigorously compressed, unfriendly to…
Julia Guez’s second collection, The Certain Body, is a singular, stunning look at our contemporary moment. It investigates varying experiences with the body: the body…
PAST CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: DANIELLE COONEY, “MY CATULLUS, WELL, HE STILL THINKS ABOUT ME” My Catullus, well, he still thinks about me Miserable woman! It is…