Carol Szamatowicz, Part One
by: Carol Szamatowicz Reading Carol Szamatowicz is like having a close friend breezily share the contents of her heart with you, knowing you feel the…
Poetry
Two Poems by Lewis Warsh
These two poems by Lewis Warsh are meditations on the old saying that “birth is the beginning of death”, as, unlike in our fictions, the…
Four Poems by Darren Francis
by: Darren Francis UK poet and musician Darren Francis’ poems explode with thoughts interrupted, images colliding, experience rendered into microns, reflections and wily juxtapositions, all…
CE Putnam, Part Two
by: CE Putnam These next two poems by the inimitable CE Putnam decenter and align us again and again as we see our lives and…
CE Putnam, Part One
by: CE Putnam1 In these sections from CE Putnam’s The Bunny Manuscript, narrative doesn’t cohere as much as come into view as a body might…
Three Poems by Norman Fischer
by: Norman Fischer Whether it’s “a case of graphomania” or “Thoughts in brain & a dream or three,” Norman Fischer’s poetry engages through association. World,…
Two Poems by Elizabeth Seri
by: Elizabeth Seri Elizabeth Seri’s poems live at the edge of meaning, where image and intention collide. Like trying to recall something impossible to forget,…
Two Poems by Michael Brownstein
by: Michael Brownstein These two short poems by Michael Brownstein conjure the muses (the “Mousai”) to help sing of the hypnagogic state where image and language converge, where…
Three Poems by Jeff Burt
by: Jeff Burt Jeff Burt’s baseball poems sing with the singular dynamism of the game itself, where a gesture as small as a slight nod…
Three Poems by Rosalind Pace
by: Rosalind Pace Rosalind Pace’s poems are lush meditations that weave questions, startling images, and metaphysical yearning to create a delicate, enthralling alchemy. CROSS Which…
Three Poems by Scherezade Siobhan
by: Scherezade Siobhan1 Scherezade Siobahn’s poems translate the overwhelming complexity of our personal and cultural dislocation into polyrhythmic hymns of longing where “touch/ must come contoured…
Two Poems by Jamieson Ridenhour
by: Jamieson Ridenhour1 Jamieson Ridenhour’s poems ask us to consider the ways our memories and perceptions are folded into the larger narrative we tell ourselves,…