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…
Poetry
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…
Three Poems by Daniel M. Shapiro
by: Daniel M. Shapiro1 Like the pop songs they take their titles from, Daniel Shapiro’s poems remind us to take seriously the fact that “music…
Two Poems by Ian Brand
by: Ian Brand Ian Brand’s poetry unfolds in dream-space of surreal collision, where our universal longing for time and connection become an ocean of “unhousable…
Cole Heinowitz, Part 2
by: Cole Heinowitz1 Cole Heinowitz’s poetry performs a necessary alchemy. Forget iron to gold, her work is concerned with the transformation of ourselves into language and…
Cole Heinowitz, Part 1
by: Cole Heinowitz1 Cole Heinowitz’s poetry performs a necessary alchemy. Forget iron to gold, her work is concerned with the transformation of ourselves into language and…
Three Poems by Tom W. Lewis
by: Tom W. Lewis Tom Lewis’ three poems are wide-ranging in content and style. What unites them is their ability to unsettle. Something’s wrong, but…