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…
I couldn’t help thinking about how we carry memories with us and how Virginia Woolf ended her life by walking into the water with stones…
A competing longing for connection and scholarly integrity gives shape to many of these poems, which read like clearings of moving conjecture. Myles searches from…
I wanted the speaker of the poem to enact a storytelling voice when explaining a very adult thing to their child. I loved the juxtaposition…
The speaker of Monroe Lawrence’s book-length poem About to Be Young, totters between the youth that is defined by age and that which is justified…
In 2016 I was only three years clean and had moved back to the city where I used hard drugs from the ages of about…
What does it mean for a woman to be considered a witch? How does the patriarchal image of problematic women as witches endure across history,…
I think much of my OCD is a learned behavior as much as it is a genetic one. I wanted to capture how anxiety can…