Daniel Tiffany’s highly musical collection The Dandelion Clock presents Middle English phrases alongside song lyrics, street slang, and popular ephemera, suggesting that a complex social history informs much of contemporary literature.
Featured poetry from the Fall 2010 issue.
Featured poetry from the Fall 2010 issue.
Featured poetry from the Summer 2010 issue.
Featured poetry from the Summer 2010 issue.
Featured poetry from the Summer 2010 issue.
Featured poetry from the Summer 2010 issue.
Dave Brinks started writing these poems in December 2004, less than a year before Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans, yet the arrival and aftermath of the flood are utterly absorbed in his cycle, his form vast enough to comprehend that great calamity.
Among the hundreds of poets publishing each year, some are most at ease in the Zen master’s or rabbi’s chair, slyly considering and distilling a fresh urban folklore, suitable to the twenty-first century, or offering hymns of praise or comfort in grief.
Michele Glazer’s new collection, On Tact, & the Made Up World, finds the author experimenting with a more sentimental mode, moving out of the strange and intuitive observations in her previous work and into a voice that seems to be less trustful of language, less precise in its vision, and more engaged with the subtle opacities of communication.