Eric Stiefel’s gently mystical “I Mean for a Thing to Be Other” explores loss with the same curiosity and eagerness as a tongue investigating a missing tooth. Who has not felt the pull toward the torn edges of absence, even…
We’re so proud to share some insight into the lives and hearts of today’s poets with our Poet In The Mirror series. This week, Paige Lewis—author of last year’s fabulous Space Struck (from Sarabande Books)—shares the joy of finding courage…
We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of Jessica Abughattas’ upcoming award winning debut, Strip (from University of Arkanasas Press in October 2020). “Winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Jessica Abughattas’s Strip is…
For this month, we’ve decided to share and re-examine those works that have broken us open for the sake of remembering. September 11th, in the chaos of 2020, offers something of an anchor: a clear and united grief that we…
Congratulations to Frederick Speers, winner of the 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips, and a sincere thanks to everyone who submitted. Thank you, also, for your patience while we reviewed all the extraordinary work this year. We’ll…
As a platform for emerging poets, our mission is to provide practical help for serious writers. The community lifts itself up together or not at all. In that light, we’ve been asking some great editors from around the literary community…
Anthony Okpunor faithfully leaps into the wellspring of trauma with “Something in the Air Wants us too Much”—a wellspring where the rules of reality break down. Yet, from that trauma, from that disorder, Okpunor has gathered a surreal web of…
Here’s a short selection, from our own Felicity Sheehy, of some of the best new poems hitting the web this June. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from Hannah VanderHart in Tinderbox Poetry…
“Lately,” JB Stone writes, joy “can be a chore to maintain.” Stone’s new poem meets us all where we are today, an Ode to the precipice of an unexpected reality and our anxious struggle to jog the new path. …
Black lives matter. Jacob Blake’s life matters. Types of Burns has been a space for Black voices who have something to say about this moment. The series began with Prince Bush’s poem, “Types of Burns.” With gratitude, we finish the summer…
