‘Viral’ by Suzanne Parker
How do you sleep when
‘Bend to It’ by Kevin Simmonds
“It would be redundant to ask if Simmonds plays an instrument when his voice is an instrument, a conduit of incomparable depth and range.”
‘Sacrilegion’ by L. Lamar Wilson
It’s far too easy to see an elision of religion and sacrilege in the title of L. Lamar Wilson’s bombshell of a collection, Sacrilegion (Carolina Wren Press), and thereby overlook the third member of a trinity: legion.
‘He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices’ by Stephen S. Mills
An important thematic element emerges
‘Obscenely Yours’ by Angelo Nikolopoulos
It can be hard to
Remembering Taylor Mead: Queer, Beat Poet, and Warhol Superstar
While many of Mead’s contemporaries from the Warhol days either died young or moved on to different things, Mead continued to live his eccentric and artistic life in lower Manhattan, painting, and writing poetry…
In Conversation: Mark Wunderlich & Alex Dimitrov
Poets Mark Wunderlich and Alex
‘Appetite’ by Aaron Smith
At this year’s AWP, I
‘Skin Shift’ by Matthew Hittinger
The distinctive poetic vision creates
‘Slow Lightning’ by Eduardo C. Corral
So much has already been
