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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
As a core principle of her teaching, Wakoski would remind her university students that you must observe. Listen. Look. When others turn-away, as a social…
Encapsulating the life of a 17th-century naturalist in 80 pages of verse is no easy task, and North Carolina-based poet Alyse Bensel rises to the…