Three Poems by Alexandra Mattraw

April 12, 2017<April 12, 2017

by: Alexandra Mattraw The power of Alexandra Mattraw’s poetry comes from its concision and compression. These poems have been whittled…

April 5, 2017<April 5, 2017

Two Poems by Sneha Subramanian Kanta

by: Sneha Subramanian Kanta Sneha Subramanian Kanta poems struggle to say the unsayable, to illuminate the duality of all things: the…

March 29, 2017<November 12, 2021

by: Anne Babson In these poems by Anne Babson, the speaker doesn’t overlay the landscape with meaning and narrative;…

March 22, 2017<March 22, 2017

by: Rizwan Akhtar These poems by Pakistani poet Rizwan Akhtar explore how the natural world impacts our connections to…

March 15, 2017<March 15, 2017

by: Natalie Crick With their subtle, graceful music, Natalie Crick’s poems sing with slow and patient melancholy of how…

March 8, 2017<March 8, 2017

by: Noah Eli Gordon Surreal self-help poetry? Aphorisms that question rather than teach? Epigrams that remind us to look in…

March 1, 2017<March 1, 2017

by John Amen ((Header art by Vanessa Katz.)) By combining individual character moments and memories with shadow narratives and…

February 22, 2017<February 22, 2017

by: Rob Cook Rob Cook offers up two stunning poems full of acute and surreal observations about how the…

February 15, 2017<November 12, 2021

by: Loriana Kolb These two poems by Loriana Kolb offer the reader a fierce engagement with the way the…

February 7, 2017<February 7, 2017

by: Tom Mandel Header art, entitled “Guilty Feet Have Got no Rhythm,” by: Jim Flahaven Instructions for reading these…

February 1, 2017<February 8, 2017

by: Tom Mandel Header art, entitled “Rudie Can’t Fail,” by: Jim Flahaven About the disconnections that plague our current…

January 18, 2017<January 18, 2017

by: Christophe Casamassima Christophe Casamassima writes about love and its failure in language that is both conversational and disjunctive,…