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Jessica Smith, How to Know the Flowers
Alabama-based poet and editor Jessica Smith’s third full-length collection is How to Know the Flowers (El Paso TX: Veliz Books, 2019), a book, as the author writes in her “FOREWORD,”[…] about trauma,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nicholas Trandahl
Nicholas Trandahl is an Army veteran, poet, outdoorsman, journalist, and traveler. A member of WyoPoets and the Bearlodge Writers, he finds inspiration in new adventures, nature, good books, and the...
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Things I am still frightened of : a new short story,
I've a new short story, "Things I am still frightened of," over at Half a Grapefruit magazine. Thanks much! And, as always, I've links to other short stories of mine publishing online, here.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lisa Richter
Lisa Richter [photo credit: Matthew Burpee Photography] is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, Closer to Where We Began (Tightrope Books, 2017) and a chapbook, Intertextual (pooka press,...
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announcing: VERSeFest 2019!
Diverse lineup of poets announced for VERSEFest 2019 Ottawa, ON – February 15, 2019– VERSeFest, Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, will return for its ninth annual edition March 26 - 31, 2019,...
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Rita Wong and Fred Wah, beholden: a poem as long as the river
FRED WAH– Where did the words come from for what we were doing with the Columbia River?RITA WONG– Maybe the River gifted us those words. […] (“Afterwords, a Dialogue”)Furthering the idea of the...
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new from above/ground press: Stella, Farina, Collis, Konchan, Smith, Gray,...
LETTERS WE'RE ALLOWEDJennifer Stella$5 See link here for more informationCHOOSE YOUR OWN POEMLaura Farina$4 See link here for more informationCodex MathematicumJoshua James Collis$5 See link here for...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Robert Sheppard
Robert Sheppard was born in Sussex, UK, in 1955, and lives in Liverpool, UK, with his wife, the poet and artist Patricia Farrell. His poetry books include Complete Twentieth Century Blues, Salt, 2008;...
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Morgan Parker, Magical Negro
Everything Will Be Taken Awayafter Adrian PiperYou can’t stop mourning everything all the time.The ‘90s, the black Maxima with a tail,CD wrappers, proximity to the earth.Glamour and sweating in your...
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Kiki Petrosino, Witch Wife
Study AbroadNo chance you’re pregnantthe English doctor asked. No chanceyou repeated slowly, then added No chance. That was the summer all Tuscan girls wore green cargo pants & orange camisoles. It...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ali Whitelock
Ali Whitelock is a Scottish poet and writer living on the south coast of Sydney with her French chain-smoking husband. Her debut poetry collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’ has just been...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Tali Voron on The Soap Box
The Soap Box is a publication dedicated to providing an accessible platform that publishes the work of emerging and established writers.Our mission is to create a community for writers and artists,...
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my (small press) writing day : new essays + ongoing submission call,
So, I had been curious for some time about The Guardian’s occasional feature “My Writing Day,” and thought it would be interesting to do a blog of the same, “for those of us who might never make it...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with John Sibley Williams
John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory(Backwaters Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. A nineteen-time...
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Ongoing notes: early March, 2019
[our two young ladies before school earlier this week, in their self-proclaimed (and self-chosen) ballet outfits; Rose chose her outfit, in part, for the sake of Pink Shirt Day]A new year, but January...
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Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Dolefully, A Rampart Stands
ShineMy reputation when I stand beneath the starsis one of tolerance.It’s dark out. No one can see me.I make the shape of a woman standingin a shed. How many of you can say the same?Billions and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Katherine Osborne
Katherine Osborne is a writer in Massachusetts. She is the author of Fire Sign (2015) and Descansos (2018). 1 - How did your first book change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your...
View ArticleThree poems for LandLocked
1.Citations: acreage, poised to light. To disembark,facts furled in clothing, summer sun and fields.This shape was mostly paper,held on either sideby land and whiteness, Hogback Ridge. I can’t keep...
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post ghost press: Deglane, Jordan + small poems for the masses
what’s left of the wild animals,the rainforests, the savannahs,will eat human corpse after corpseuntil their descendants no longerhear tales of the soft-skinnedtwo-legged monsters. (Wanda Deglane)I’m...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Diane Mehta
Diane Mehta’s debut poetry collection, Forest with Castanets, comes out in March 2019 with Four Way Books. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised in Bombay and New Jersey, Mehta studied with Derek...
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