Claudia Serea Poetry is Poetry is of no use, but it stays with you like a blind dog that sniffs your troubles and licks your hands and your eyes, especially the eyes. Claudia Serea’s poems and translations have appeared in Field, New Letters, 5 a.m., Meridian, Gravel, among others, and she’s the author of four poetry collections, most recently […]
Read MoreClaudia Serea Even if you don’t believe in angels You still have your life, heavy, crumbling, dry, and you can’t carry it, but you have no choice, but to carry it, a cement cross on your shoulders instead of wings. Claudia Serea’s poems and translations have appeared in Field, New Letters, 5 a.m., Meridian, Gravel, among others, and she’s […]
Read MoreDavid Hanlon Interment Who knew you could bury so much of yourself in the graves of the ones you’ve loved. David Hanlon is a Bristol-based poet who can be followed at https://twitter.com/DavidHanlon13
Read MoreJimmy Pappas Waiting Two Hours in the Doctor’s Office to Hear My Mother-in-Law is About to Die I learn Kanye West wants to have jet planes flying overhead when he marries Kim Kardashian. Jimmy Pappas‘s most successful poetry accomplishment so far was being chosen one of the ten finalists for the Rattle 2017 Poetry Contest.
Read MoreNeil Creighton The End of the Day In this tinsel world of botox faces, perfect orthodontal smiles and all those desperate attempts to keep youthful looks I’m thinking about the headlong stampede of youth and the crumbling that comes with age and I’m also thinking that for beauty sunset’s red, orange and purple blaze equals […]
Read MorePreeti Talwai Adults That morning, over burnt toast, we fought about the electric bill and the trash you hadn’t taken out, but that night your shadow puppet apologized to mine on the candlelit ceiling above our bed. Preeti Talwai lives in California and is trained as an architect, works as a design researcher, and nourishes […]
Read MoreSandra S. McRae Driving Lessons I teach what you need to know –signal, turn, accelerate, merge– so you can one day leave me. Sandra S. McRae thinks you are pretty terrific.
Read MoreSandra S. McRae Lily’s Spelling List Among the recitation of all the ways to spell the phoneme |ü|, in her jaunty ten-year-old print this is what jumps out at me: beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty Sandra S. McRae thinks you are pretty terrific.
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