Blog




Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web

Here’s a short collection of some of the best new poems hitting online journals. Enjoy! “What Use Is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around” by Kaveh Akbar in The New Yorker “There has always been a swarm/ of hungry…

Read More


Poetry: Two Poems by Mai Der Vang

Mai Der Vang stands out as a poet of stunning & lurid language. These two new poems exemplify the work displayed in her debut collection, Afterland (Graywolf Press 2017)—the geographies of grief & the bare evidence of spiritual truth. Vang, with linguistic dexterity,…

Read More


Poetry Award for New Writers

We are excited to announce our inaugural Poetry Award contest, to be judged by 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry recipient, Tyehimba Jess! The winning poem will be awarded $2000 and publication online // 15 finalists will be recognized as well.…

Read More


Poetry: Sad Jar of Atoms by Lance Larsen

Lance Larsen’s Sad Jar of Atoms rolls in the ear like the voice of a friend. The lines pile and caress each other, holding onto intimacy even as we’re stretched from domestic quibbles to ancient history. Exploring the overlapping associations…

Read More



Poetry: Two Poems by Safia Elhillo

Safia Elhillo’s The January Children has been on of the most exciting collections of 2017. These two new poems show why. Here, Elhillo comfortably explores established and invented forms with her beautiful, consistent focus on language, and bodies, and the hot spot where two cultures collide. There…

Read More



Close Menu