“O Pen the State/open the say/ate the stated,” a Side A Poem by Tony Mancus

O Pen the State/open the say/ate the stated We are always one link from disaster blinking the clouds top the mountains like … More

“State of Decay”: A Georgia Poets’ Roundtable

Regionalisms abound in accounts of contemporary poetry, and the American South remains one of the most complex and productive of … More

Connor Fisher: Two Poems for Haunted Passages

An Aphid Complex An aphid complex emerged frombeneath the burning barn. Horses were theprophets of agriculture. I threw a tractor … More

“The Sky Never Left the Sky”: Tiffany Troy Interviews Mai Der Vang about her newest collection YELLOW RAIN

Mai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), and Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the … More

Two Poems for Haunted Passages by Annah Browning

On Reading the Unsolved Mysteries I no longer want to see the world. I want to hold  a bouquet of aliens in my hand like violets and stare into … More

Haunted Passages Poem: “Tangerine Dream” by Michael Sikkema

pack of dogs forms aroundglitching cop, begins to glow children, covered in fruit                … More

Two Poems for Flavor Town USA by Avery Gregurich

I Keep Guzzling Bug Juice, Thirsty As I Am I can never leave the Casey’s convenience store without myBug Juice. … More

Excerpt from SCARLET: Three Glitched Still Lives by Francesco Levato for #NoMorePresidents

SCARLET is a digital visual/poetic meditation on the fractured state of psyche induced by extended social isolation under COVID-19 lockdown. … More

Bad Survivalist Poetry: “where the space ends” by Anthony Santulli

where the space ends             even maps know that point of view                   is a lifeless music—that the next sense … More

From Vol. 9: “In My Dreams There’s No One in the Maternity Ward,” a poem by Tessa Livingstone

In My Dreams There’s No One in the Maternity Ward I keep having dreams they take her from mewhen I … More

From Vol. 9: “From THE SELF IS BEING THOUGHT,” poetry by Amie Zimmerman

from THE SELF IS BEING THOUGHT III. presented with the frameworkof fevers, faith, moonlight and such other violencean obvious definition … More

From Vol. 9: “birthday poem” by Patrick Kindig

birthday poem today there are marigoldsblooming in the street& i mean this literally.there are marigolds risingfrom the seam betweenthe curb … More

Three Poems by Anat Zecharia (Translated by Tsipi Keller) from Vol. 9

Lust Nothing is more useless than Godhe doesn’t stroke my foreheaddoesn’t stretch a moist tongueto lustfully lick the bloodfrom every … More

Two Poems by Eddy Jordan from Vol. 9

Theatre for Realtors An afternoon for burning, we lookin houses.A chance to makesome theatre for realtorswe say, realtorsare people too … More

Poems & Mixed Media by Jeffrey Grunthaner from Vol. 9

Revisions For the moment he does summertime with an alexandrine mounted in air,inscribed in a space of appropriation—a hundred-foot colossus … More