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Reading David Dodd Lee
THE WHITE SEA Spin the big wheel of weather. So it’s seven degrees. I could have sworn it was balmy and getting ready to storm eight minutes ago. One definition of a slob is someone who...
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Reading Allan Peterson
CONTINENTAL We were sinking The windows were filling with cities as if poured into glasses No one was thinking of drowning No one thinking air ship but there we were submerging A captain turned off...
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“Look Where That Has Gotten Me”: The Potential Self-Awareness & Honesty of...
Let me begin by playing a round of Two Truths and a Lie… We all know how this works, right? The speaker shares two truths about themselves, and a lie, but the lie must not be easily distinguished...
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Reading Tracey Knapp
TO THE NEW MOON Come night. Come sirens and midnight babies born in the backseats of taxicabs. Come moon. You crazy weeping alcoholic, quit drinking yourself into nothingness. Someone’s trumpet has...
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Poem of the Day: Michalle Gould
WHEN I WAS NAKED I was the sturdy bowl of plums half-buried in snow outside the artist’s studio. He paints the shades of purple reflected in condensed water on my skin. I was the snowy hill topped...
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Poem of the Day: Lisa Nanette Allender
L.V. WOMEN The Women wear their hair like a blonde ballet trained to perform each golden strand sun-bleached and chemical-precision, in perfect position. The women wear their skin unnaturally tight...
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Poem of the Day: Cynthia Cruz
SELF-PORTRAIT I did not want my body Spackled in the world’s Black beads and broke Diamonds. What the world Wanted, I did not. Of the things It wanted. The body of Sunday Morning, the warm wine and...
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Poem of the Day: Julie Bruck
—after Philip Larkin TO BRING THE HORSE HOME Is all I’ve wanted past wanting since I was six and delirious with fever, an infinitive forged from a night when giant ladybugs with...
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Poem of the Day: Ada Limón
Help me turn my mind off. Help me be more than a song. The stress like a crow’s open flame. Help me to not give up on forgiveness. The work has become too wild here. Help me. Help me— (Days like...
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Reading David Dodd Lee
Happy Sunday, all! As fellow readers, book lovers, and writers, I know you have authors and books in your back pocket that you find yourself returning to from time to time. Maybe it’s an annual thing,...
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“My Face Resembles / The One Reflected in the Water”: Reading David Dodd...
The thing that I love about erasure poetry is how interactive it can (and should!) be with the original work it is pulling from. I think, for some writers who attempt this form, the goal is to...
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Reading Shaindel Beers
Happy (very early!) Friday, everyone! This week, I’ve been spending some time with a really wonderful poet, Shaindel Beers. Soon enough, I’ll have an interview of her, her writing process, and her...
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A Night of Building a Manuscript & Reading Poetry
Happy Tuesday night, all! I hope you had a wonderful weekend—and a relaxing Labor Day. My Labor Day weekend revolved (mostly) around lovely “guilty pleasures,” ranging from binge-watching Season 3 of...
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Reading Rae Armantrout: 5 Days until Halloween
Apple cider, fall leaves & crisp air, jack-o-lanterns a’glow—These are a few of my favorite, spookiest things… Happy Saturday, friends! If you’ve been here for a while, you know how much I love...
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Poem of the Day: Sylvia Plath
BLACKBERRYING Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries, Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly,A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a seaSomewhere at the...
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Happy National Poetry Month! Poem of the Day: Angela Voras-Hills
Happy Wednesday, friends! I hope you’re all enjoying your week. For those of you who may not be aware, and for those who are too overwhelmed with other things right now to be focused on this (know...
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Poem of the Day: Justin Phillip Reed
Happy Tuesday, friends! As I mentioned yesterday, I’m throwing myself back into doing the things I love—and I LOVE celebrating my fellow writers. If you’d like to have one of your works featured, or...
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