Tag: poetry

  • CURRENT ISSUE

    CURRENT ISSUE

    Rafael

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    WRITERS IN THIS ISSUE: Simon Anton Diego Baena, Tim Buchanan, Maggie Cooper, Cynie Cory, Lenny DellaRocca, Ubaldimir Guerra, Jeff Karon, Steve Lapinsky, Cody Lee, Susan Lilley, Carlos Miranda, Jeff Newberry, Kesha Peyrefitte, Melanie A. Rawls, Gianna Russo, Willa Schmidt, Margaret Howard Trammell Read more

  • Bluer and More Vast [Book Review]

    Bluer and More Vast [Book Review]

    Rafael

    Michael Hettich is an extraordinary poet. In his two most recent collections, To Start an Orchard and Bluer and More Vast, Hettich’s brilliance shines brightly. What especially makes his work vibrant is his unique blend of vividly capturing the everyday quotidian moments of his narrators and characters and mixing these flashes with a unique and… Read more

  • Here on Rue Morgue Avenue [Book Review]

    Here on Rue Morgue Avenue [Book Review]

    Rafael

    The poet Cynie Cory springs word-songs like hot hail from the sky in Here on Rue Morgue Avenue, a collection of almost-sonnets, almost cantos, that grab language by the gills, that fling stanzas skyward into a fiery stratosphere. Read more

  • Madman Silencio by Ubaldimir Guerra

    Madman Silencio by Ubaldimir Guerra

    Rafael

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    Madman Silencio Sometimes dem call me a madman but I see me self as sikarus as Kamau in him video style, Sycorax Read more

  • The Artist’s Model by Corinna McClanahan Schroeder

    Rafael

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    When the heating lamp below the tub snuffs out, I float in my swollen dress like I have each afternoon for months. Read more

  • Mildred’s Parents Accepted Her Marriage by Diamond Forde

    Rafael

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    Mildred’s Parents Accepted Her Marriage but my parents stress in secret. At the table in his single room apartment, dad serves us burritos hosed with ketchup, a mock on the salsa he can’t afford but won’t admit. Read more