Two Poems by David Morgan O’Connor
by: David Morgan O’Connor Ostensibly about conquistadors and the Age of Exploration, David Morgan O’Connor’s poems are also about exploring the strangeness and inexplicability of ourselves and…
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Two Poems by Jenna Cardinale
by: Jenna Cardinale1 From noticing the “fluorescent moth hallway” on her way to work to ruminating on how “Death came after/ a wave full of…
Two Poems by Laurie Sewall
by: Laura Sewall Laurie Sewall’s poems interrogate the way American society and government impose their various wills on individuals and groups, defining who we are…
Two Poems by Drew Gardner
by: Drew Gardner1 Absolutely anything can happen in a Drew Gardner poem. His slick juxtapositions, surreal combinations, and skewed references move with a quickness and…
Ryan Collins, Part 2
by: Ryan Collins The complex, polyrhythmic music of Ryan Collins’ poetry hits the reader with a rush of images and bleak reflections. In these poems…
Ryan Collins, Part 1
The complex, polyrhythmic music of Ryan Collins’ poetry hits the reader with a rush of images and bleak reflections. In these poems straightforward confession becomes…
Ann Stephenson, Part 2
by: Ann Stephenson Ann Stephenson writes elegies to a world that continues to slip away from her and from us. The Police sang “When the…
Ann Stephenson, Part 1
by: Ann Stephenson Ann Stephenson writes elegies to a world that continues to slip away from her and from us. The Police sang “When the…
Three Poems by Jennifer Coleman
by: Jennifer Coleman Jen Coleman is Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Bishop’s secret lovechild. Reading her work is a good way to dispel fear: no matter…
Two Poems by Jon Whitbread
Poems and featured artwork by: Jon Whitbread U.K. poet Jon Whitbread’s two poems burst with the complicated music of experience and reflection. In a meditation on…
Two Poems by Michael Brownstein
by: Michael Brownstein There’s a lushness in these two poems by Michael Brownstein, but it is not wholly benign. Given the all the myriad ways…
A Poem by Stephen Mead
by: Stephen Mead Stephen Mead’s poem uses a Georgia O’Keefe painting as the occasion for full blown meditation on how landscape can reveal the transcendent…