‘Cow’ by Susan Hawthorne
Red cow, blue cow, black cow. A golden calf and a moon-jumping heifer. Figures that often grace pastoral landscapes or children’s books have wandered into the realm of poetry. Susan Hawthorne’s latest collection, Cow, blends the bovine figure with ancient mythologies to re-envision history for modern women.
Queer Spirituality: What Can Poetry Tell Us? A Conversation with Julie Enszer and Kevin Simmonds
Gay and lesbians have long had a complex and often conflicted relationship with organized religion, sometimes facing exclusion—or worse. But at the same time there is a long history of gay people trying to understand queerness as a divine gift or turning to spirituality to celebrate their love for each other.
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.
‘Circuit’ by Walter Holland
Towards the end of Walter
Greg Nicholl, “Moments Lifted”
Today we’re pleased to feature
James Cihlar, “A Conversation with My Imaginary Daughter”
A new poem this week
Andrew Demcak, “Tattoo”
Today, two poems by Andrew
L. Lamar Wilson, “In the Lion’s Den”
This week, two poems by
Toni Mirosevich, “Giveaway”
For our first Poetry Spotlight
