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…
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…