My family left Odesa, Ukraine, in 1991, shortly before I turned nine and the Soviet Union collapsed. We came straight to Los Angeles, with only…
“Soft Kitchen with Tea Towel and Flames” was written across several years and spaces, its “you” shifting and slipping each time I thought I might…
I don’t want to suggest that what motivated me to write a sequence of poems (including “Captainlainberg”) came as part of some orderly process. As…
While “Dance of the Grove Boar” is inspired by Butoh, an experimental form of dance theater in Japan, the piece is neither Ekphrastic nor Didactic.…
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…
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…