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Brenda Iijima, Bionic Communality
contact at marrow, bloodletting river flow suctiongraphic impact reaches limits of space (grandiose)inseparably from now until awakeningbrutal jewel of war presently centered as zenith of gravitythe...
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Aeon Ginsberg, Greyhound
in the terminal there is concealedcarry – but is never what we wishto hold in secret like a puppy or birdor the heart of a lover upon whichthe road guides us to. And first therecould have been...
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dusie : the tuesday poem
The Tuesday poem is eight years old today, with more than four hundred new poems published to date! Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot of the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sandra Beasley
Sandra Beasley is the author of four poetry collections—Made to Explode, Count the Waves, I Was the Jukebox, which won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Theories of Falling—as well as Don’t Kill...
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Spotlight series #60 : Carleen Tibbetts
The sixtieth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring American poet and editor Carleen Tibbetts.The first...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ash Winters
Ash Winters is an emerging Toronto-based poet. Genderqueer and sober, their work navigates complex and colourful emotional landscapes. They graduated with their BA in English from Lakehead University...
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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Chernoff, Olsen, Barbour,...
Anticipating the release later this week of the twenty-ninth issue of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal], why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few weeks with...
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Ashley Farmer, The Women
Women Relax (And Be Yourselves)Passionate women relax in a hotel bedroom. Steaming women relax in a natural hot spring. Pregnant women relax at a summer camp. Passive women relax in a dry sauna....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shannon McConnell
Shannon McConnellis a writer, educator and musician originally from Vancouver, BC. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in untethered, The Fieldstone Review, Louden Singletree, In Medias Res, Rat’s Ass...
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today is lady aoife's fifth birthday:
How did the young lady get so big? Her fourth birthday. Third. Her second. Her first. The day she was born.Five years old today. Happy birthday.She has been this whole year learning online, and doing...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Molly Fuller
Molly Fulleris the author of the full-length collection For Girls Forged by Lightning: Prose & Other Poems (All Nations Press) and two chapbooks Tender the Body (Spare Change Press) and The...
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Rob Winger, It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant
We’ve come here, cliffside, to admirethis steel assemblage poised againsttankers sluicing past the Western wharf.And we’ve come without irony:those flames, we say, that’s beauty.From here, every...
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Khashayar Mohammadi, Me, You, Then Snow
Close your eyes. Picture your ego and draw.A blue whale? A deep trail? Roots. Lover’s kiss and mother’s bones Fickle thoughts...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Will Johnson
Will Johnson is a musician and songwriter who has played in the bands Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Marie/Lepanto, Overseas, New Multitudes, and Monsters of Folk. He also releases records under his...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Michele Nicole Vanderwal and Michelle...
Rose Garden Pressis a new micropress (founded in 2020), based in small town Mount Brydges, Ontario. They publish handcrafted poetry chapbooks from new and rooted voices, aiming to publish 3-5 titles...
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Kimberly Alidio, Why Letter Ellipses
I have been thirteenfrowned on haunted for yearsshadow spread myselfCixous before or after file my nails in poetryshe hangs in self-absorptionfrom her lovers tend to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jessica Palmer
Jessica Palmer lives with her children in the mountains of North Carolina. Her work has previously appeared in numerous publications. 1 - How did your first book change your life? How does your most...
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Mary Germaine, Congratulations, Rhododendrons
The Receptionin the church basementa shred of lettuce limps in the Miracle WhipWonder Bread sops the pickle juicesomeone chewed the entire circumferenceof her Styrofoam coffee cupbut left the coffee...
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Roxanna Bennett, The Untranslatable I
Purplefish Key: The Lost Dodo Is Anne Carson autistic or am Iprojecting understanding & if you find that offensive—why? Did you thinksanism was the only narrative. Or did you think...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kate Gaskin
Kate Gaskin is the author of Forever War, winner of the Pamet River Prize (YesYes Books). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Guernica, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly...
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