Antidote
One of the most striking features is Van Landingham’s ability to collapse massive distances within a few lines…
Dear Darwish
As a whole, Kornberg-Weiss’s impulse is to emphasize the relation of one’s purview of histories past and possible with the present moment.
Missing the Moon
This collection shows us how the poem’s purpose isn’t to contain or reflect or make sense of the world, but to be the edge that the world spills over.
Beyond the Chainlink
Morrison’s Beyond the Chainlink is a beautifully written collection, as philosophical as it is concrete and carefully grounded. A lovely addition to this writer’s already accomplished body of work.
Ascension Theory
Ascension Theory, Christopher Bolin’s debut collection, is a negotiation between the poetics of knowing and unknowing.
Transfer of Qualities
Ultimately, how we stand, how we inhabit space and what we touch in this realm become Ronk’s preoccupations—with the final caveat that doing so is merely temporary.
Practice on Mountains
Bartone reveals the contemporary prose poem as inextricable from haiku, haibun, and the spare, image-driven lyrics of the early Modernists.
Pierre Rivière Spectacular 08
Imagine this scene from The Bad Seed: two ladies drooping, lily-like, in a nineteen-fifties living room. No pillow is out of place. Each woman is devastated. Hortense Daigle because her little boy was killed, the other woman because her little girl murdered him. Mrs. Daigle is liquored up good. She exits her grief long enough […]
Wastoid
Now I recognize everyone I have ever seen. For instance, on the walk over here I heard two men discussing how hot one of them was one night—the one man thought the other was very hot but the hot-that-night man didn’t think he was at his hottest. I saw one man walking while holding a […]
Note to Self
No matter the size of window, nor the contrary force with which it resists, when the window breaks the outcome is evening. There is only one method for self-reflection. To achieve a quiet mind you must first hear it speak. Then you must talk back to your mind until you talk it to death. […]