A Poem by Brad Trumpfheller
This week, a poem by Brad Trumpfheller
A Poem by James Cihlar
This week, a poem by James Cihlar
A Poem by Paige Lewis
This week, a poem by Paige Lewis
A Poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
This week, a poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
A Poem by Laura Brun
This week, a poem by Laura Brun
A Poem by Roberto Montes
This week, a poem from Roberto Montes
A Poem by Emily Brown
This week, a poem by Emily Brown
A Poem by Justin Phillip Reed
This week, a poem by Justin Phillip Reed
A Poem by D. Gilson
This week, a poem by D. Gilson
Two Poems by Liza Flum
This week, two poems by Liza Flum
A Poem by Nicholas Goodly
This week, a poem by
A Poem by Lucas Crawford
This week, a poem by Lucas Crawford
A Poem by LA Warman
This week, a poem by LA Warman
A Poem by Jen Levitt
This week, a poem from Jen Levitt’s The Off-Season , out this month from Four Way Books
A Poem by Gregory Canillas
This week, a poem by Gregory Canillas
A Poem by Sophia Dahlin
This week, a poem by Sophia Dahlin
A Poem by Lawrence Kaplun
This week, a poem by Lawrence Kaplun
A Poem by Tommy Pico
This week, an excerpt from Tommy Pico’s book-length poem IRL
A Poem by Candace Williams
This week, a poem by Candace Williams
A Poem by Ezra Dan Feldman
This week, a poem by
A Poem by Lisa Summe
This week, a poem by
A Poem by Lisa Hiton
This week, a poem by Lisa Hiton.
A Poem by Francisco Márquez
This week, a poem by Francisco Márquez.
A Poem by Miriam Bird Greenberg
This week, a poem by Miriam Bird Greenberg.
A Poem by Nathan Blansett
This week, a poem by Nathan Blansett.
A Poem by Kamden Hilliard
This week, a poem by Kamden Hilliard.
A Poem by K.T. Billey
This week, a poem by K.T. Billey.
Two Poems by Nebeolisa Okwudili
This week, two poems by Nebeolisa Okwudili
A Poem by Tom Capelonga
This week, a poem by Tom Capelonga.
A Poem by Brian Thorstenson
Today, a new poem by Brian Thorstenson
Two Poems by Richie Hofmann
This week, two poems from Richie Hofmann’s Second Empire, just published by Alice James Books.
Two Poems by Matthew Gellman
This week, two poems by
A Poem by Diana Hamilton
This week, a poem by
A Poem by Sam Ross
This week, a poem by Sam Ross
A Poem by Shane Allison
This week, a poem by Shane Allison
A Poem by Sarah Sala
This week, a poem by Sarah Sala
A Poem by Jarrett Neal
This week, a poem by Jarrett Neal.
“Body Language” by Michael Broder
This week, a poem by Michael Broder.
“beliefs.” by Candice Iloh
This week, a poem by Candice Iloh.
“A Self” by Joy Ladin
This week, a poem by Joy Ladin.
A Poem by Ed Madden
This week, a poem by Ed Madden.
Two Poems by Ilinca Popescu
This week, two poems by Ilinca Popescu.
Robin Coste Lewis, “The Mothers”
This week, two poems by Robin Coste Lewis.
Lewis is a Provost’s Fellow in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. A Cave Canem Fellow, she received her MFA from New York University’s Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater Fellow in poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Calalloo, and VIDA.
Doug Paul Case, “Ode”
Today, a new poem by Doug Paul Case.
Case lives in Bloomington, where he’s an MFA candidate at Indiana University and web editor of Indiana Review. His poems have appeared in Sou’wester, Harpur Palate, Juked, and Ilk.
R. Zamora Linmark, “5/31/2012”
A new poem by R. Zamora Linmark treats us to a rainy day at the movies.
R. Zamora Linmark is the author of Rolling The R’s and Leche and three collections of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press. He divides his time between Honolulu and Manila, where he is currently working on a novel, revising a play, and completing his fourth poetry collection.
Erin M. Bertram, “Shun Not My Arrows, & Behold My Breast”
This week, a new poem
Tory Adkisson, “First Harvest”
This week, a poem by Tory Adkisson.
Adkisson recently earned his MFA from The Ohio State University and recently has had work featured in Cave Wall, Linebreak, and 32 Poems. A Southern California native, he currently lives in Athens, where he attends the PhD program in literature and creative writing at the University of Georgia.
Poetry Spotlight: Lambda Literary Award Winners
This week, enjoy a special double-feature Spotlight with work from the winners of the two poetry categories from this year’s Lambda Literary Awards: “femmes are film stars” from Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (TSAR Publications), and “After a Line by Ted Berrigan” from A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos edited by David Trinidad (Nightboat Books).
Alex Dimitrov, “You Are The Party I Want To Go To”
This Valentine’s Day, we’re pleased to bring you Alex Dimitrov’s love poem for fellow poet Dorothea Lasky.
Dimitrov’s first book of poems, Begging for It, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in early 2013. He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize for younger poets from The American Poetry Review and the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Slate, Tin House, and Boston Review.
Ely Shipley, “Night a ladder we climb to reach”
For our first Poetry Spotlight of 2012, three poems by Ely Shipley.
Shipley’s first book, Boy with Flowers, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, the 2009 Thom Gunn Award, and was a Lambda Literary finalist. His poems and lyric essays appear in Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Phoebe, Greensboro Review, Barrow Street, Third Coast, and elsewhere.
Jon L. Jensen, “Sestina Dickinson Would Never Write”
This week, four new poems by Jon L. Jensen.
Jon L. Jensen has spent the last decade in Harlem, New York, but his poetic universe has never escaped the badlands of his native Wyoming. He also works as an essayist and translator of Russian verse, holding degrees in Classics, Russian and Rhetoric. In former lives, he has worked as Mormon missionary trying to save Evangelicals in the Deep South and as a Peace Corps volunteer trying to teach HIV prevention to sex workers on the streets of Moscow. The poems included here are a part of a book-length manuscript, The Flannel Lord.
Greg Nicholl, “Moments Lifted”
Today we’re pleased to feature
Sasha Debevec-McKenney, “The 1984 Presidential Election”
This week, two poems on
James Cihlar, “A Conversation with My Imaginary Daughter”
A new poem this week
Andrew Demcak, “Tattoo”
Today, two poems by Andrew
Ocean Vuong, “The Prodigal Son’s Lament”
Today for your reading pleasure,
L. Lamar Wilson, “In the Lion’s Den”
This week, two poems by
Toni Mirosevich, “Giveaway”
For our first Poetry Spotlight
Angelo Nikolopoulos, “Daffodil”
For a splash of color
Michael Klein, “Happiness Ruined Everything”
Kicking off this December, two
Timothy Liu, “Blind Date”
Today we’re pleased to feature
Joy Ladin, “Girl In A Bottle”
Today, two poems from 2009
RJ Gibson, “Poem With Bodies In It”
This week’s poem by RJ
Matthew Hittinger, “Keystone Effect: KKK Rally in Carlisle”
Today, two new poems by
Kirsty Logan, “Why I Want To Go North”
This week, two new poems
Benjamin S. Grossberg, “The Space Traveler’s Husband”
Today we’re featuring work by
Alex Dimitrov, “James Franco”
Kicking off this month’s Poetry
Vanessa Libertad Garcia, “The B Job”
This week we’re featuring work
Charlie Vázquez, “Bronx Dharma”
This week we’re featuring work
Steven Cordova, “An Invisible Man Cruises A Vampire”
Today, two new poems by
Arisa White, “out of line”
For your reading pleasure today,
Brent Goodman, “Attack of the Handsome Bad Guys”
For today’s inaugural post, two
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