Three Poems by Alexandra Mattraw
by: Alexandra Mattraw The power of Alexandra Mattraw’s poetry comes from its concision and compression. These poems have been whittled down until we are left with…
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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 ocean gives life; the ocean provides…
Two Poems by Anne Babson
by: Anne Babson In these poems by Anne Babson, the speaker doesn’t overlay the landscape with meaning and narrative; quite the contrary, the landscape defines…
Two Poems by Rizwan Akhtar
by: Rizwan Akhtar These poems by Pakistani poet Rizwan Akhtar explore how the natural world impacts our connections to self and other, love and loss,…
Three Poems by Natalie Crick
by: Natalie Crick With their subtle, graceful music, Natalie Crick’s poems sing with slow and patient melancholy of how the difficult world denies our need…
24 Cut Lits
by: Noah Eli Gordon Surreal self-help poetry? Aphorisms that question rather than teach? Epigrams that remind us to look in the mirror and out the window?…
From “The American Myths”
by John Amen1 By combining individual character moments and memories with shadow narratives and sly political references (“O white God, is there a real world?”)…
Two Poems by Rob Cook
by: Rob Cook Rob Cook offers up two stunning poems full of acute and surreal observations about how the “sunlight has turned strange;” illustrating how…
Two Poems by Loriana Kolb
by: Loriana Kolb These two poems by Loriana Kolb offer the reader a fierce engagement with the way the real observation of place (the coast…
Tom Mandel, Part Two
by: Tom Mandel Header art, entitled “Guilty Feet Have Got no Rhythm,” by: Jim Flahaven Instructions for reading these poems by Tom Mandel might go…
Tom Mandel, Part One
by: Tom Mandel Header art, entitled “Rudie Can’t Fail,” by: Jim Flahaven About the disconnections that plague our current situation, Tom Mandel’s poetry is seriously…
Four Poems from This Is Not A Love Song
by: Christophe Casamassima Christophe Casamassima writes about love and its failure in language that is both conversational and disjunctive, strikingly elegant and brutally real: “…you…