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…
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…
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…
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…
Whether or not it’s an epic, the story I’m telling is certainly a bildungsroman. The speaker, a freshman in college, is attempting to become a…
I covet the single-mindedness of animals. Bears like Mink aren’t alone in their mysterious ability to orient themselves homeward from unfamiliar faraway places. On spring…
Granite State’s odyssey began in a library in Massachusetts where I had just finished reading Mark Irwin’s poem “The Human Pageant” (The Massachusetts Review). I…
I like poems about food, and I like poems about movies. I also think poets should write about their favorite things, and two of my…