Poetry

Three Poems by Rodger Kamenetz

Rodger Kamenetz writes a poetry of wild juxtaposition in which the unlikely commingle, promising but never truly finding meaningful connection: “Every song promises salvation from…

Two Poems by kerry rawlinson

Calling to mind the knotty rhythms of Gerard Manly Hopkins, these two poems by kerry rawlinson, explore the ways we try to find our emotional…

Two Poems by Robin Ray

These two poems by Robin Ray explore spiritual, if not literal, homelessness—that feeling of being untethered to a sense place or even a consistent story…

Two Poems by J. Tarwood

These two poems by J. Tarwood engage the clashing juxtapositions at the heart of our experience of the self: our present identity is as mysterious…

Three Poems by Gregory Kimbrell

These poems by Gregory Kimbrell take the language and tropes of tech, sci-fi, and ancient myth to create a new parable of identity and self-construction,…

Two Poems by Auden Eagerton

These two poems by Auden Eagerton situate the trauma of dysfunctional family life in the natural world, which works as metaphor and backdrop for the…

Two Poems by Clyde Kessler

Using the reoccurring images of fire and smoke, these two poems by Clyde Kessler return us to the ephemeral, elemental nature of our dream-like existence…

Three Poems by Christine Hamm

Weaving together elements of fairytale and myth with elliptic narratives of family life and the psychological distress the quotidian brings us all, these haunting poems…

Three Poems by Jessica Fischoff

These poems by Jessica Fischoff capture fragments of experience as they rush by, changing and transforming before our eyes: “…Blue/ is red is a pointed…

Two Poems by David Dodd Lee

Reading these poems by David Dodd Lee is to enter a world that is both comfortingly familiar and disconcertingly strange. That is, to read them…

Two Poems by Timothy Shaner

These poems by Timothy Shaner ask how the self is constructed in writing. Is poetry a recollection in tranquility, a projection of the as yet…