Four Poems by Maha Zimmo
by: Maha Zimmo In these poems by Maha Zimmo, the titles are the last thing you come upon. In this way, the poet pulls the…
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by: Maha Zimmo In these poems by Maha Zimmo, the titles are the last thing you come upon. In this way, the poet pulls the…
by: Steve Benson In this poem by Steve Benson, the personal questions the political, the quotidian slides in and out of the cosmic, the self…
by: Jennifer Pons These poems by Jennifer Pons, which are her first to be published, question what it means to confront the world and the…
by: Chloe McMurray In these two poems by Chloe McMurray, outsider status imparts its own kind of grace, one that celebrates the here and now while…
by: Kara Arguello The lines “the kind of green that drags you down the stairs/ out the door into the damp hopeful air/ of Pennsylvania spring”…
by: Tom Montag Tom Montag’s poetry fills the moment of reading with a deep and resonant sense of personal and perceptual loss. Nature can surely…
by: Sean Condron Sean Condron embraces poetry’s role as the repository of the bittersweet truth of collective and personal memory: namely, the stories which come…
by: Sean Condron The dizzying feeling that we are strange and unknowable to ourselves runs throughout Sean Condron’s poetry. These poems evoke a phantasmagoric nostalgia,…
by: Tara Deal With sharp, precise images and line breaks that slow the reader down, Tara Deals’ poetry asks the question: What does it feel…
by: Cal Freeman Cal Freeman is devoted to paying attention “because each moment is an irrevocable act.” Everybody knows this is a basic fact of…
by: Michelle Chen The enthralling power of Michelle Chen’s work, whether original or translation, is that it moves deftly in two directions simultaneously: 1) a…
by Jake Romm In these poems, the promise of America and the promise of poetry become one and the same: a longed for freedom that…