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Tag: Poetry
“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