Savannah Slone is a queer, bipolar, and disabled writer, editor, and English professor who currently dwells in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Paper Darts, the Indianapolis Review, Glass: A Poetry Journal, Crab Creek Review, FIVE:2:ONE, Pidgeonholes, decomP magazinE, Crab Fat Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Hobart […]
Two Poems | Valerie Griggs
Valerie Griggs has been published in Typishly, Avatar Review, California Quarterly, Coachella Review, Door Is A Jar, Green Hills Literary Lantern, I-70 Review, The Ledge, Litbreak Magazine, Apricity Magazine, Paragon Journal, Pisgah Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Sanskrit Magazine, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Steam Ticket, Streetlight Magazine, […]
Three Poems | Jen Frantz
Jen Frantz currently works at a library in Ohio. Her poems have been published in Prelude, Sporklet, and Afternoon Visitor, and are forthcoming in Washington Square Review. She will be attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the fall. Shaqayeq Ahmadian is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Tehran. Her practice is concerned […]
Two Poems | Joshua Bird
“He uttered the same last words for a year / before he changed his mind // Discreet paper-thin whorls /
or elaborate renaming days, yes // I have made each of these moths / out of the name Michael”
The Generalists | Maxwell Paparella
Maxwell Paparella lives in New York City. His writing has appeared in Art Papers, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Screen Slate, and elsewhere. More of his work can be found at www.maxwellpaparella.com. Brittany Laurent (b. 1992) is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of the MFA […]
Two Poems | Charles Kell
Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. He teaches in Rhode Island. Suchi J. Pritchard is a painter and poet originally hailing from an island on the west coast who is currently an MFA candidate […]
An Interview | Taisia Kitaiskaia on Mystic, Moody, and Playful Things
Taisia Kitaiskaia is a Russian-American poet and writer whose work has developed an idiosyncratic mythopoetics that revels in language’s creaturely underbelly, as seen most recently in The Nightgown and Other Poems, a poetry collection published by Deep Vellum in 2020. Kitaiskaia generously answered my questions over the course of several […]
On Being Vulnerable | Karl Michael Iglesias
Karl Michael Iglesias is an actor, director, and writer originally from Milwaukee, WI. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble, he continues his exploration of verse and heightened language in the theater. His poetry can be found in Apogee, The Acentos Review, The […]
Mónica de la Torre on Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979
Interview with Mónica de la Torre on Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 by Chime Lama Adding to the great efforts of anthologizing concrete poetry undertaken by Emmett Williams, Mary Ellen Solt, Victoria Bean, and Chris McCabe, among others, Mónica de la Torre and Alex Balgiu’s latest work gives us another […]
The Process | Rose Pacult
Rose Pacult is a multimedia artist and author. She has worked with Massimo De Carlo to the Bethanien Kunstquartier. Rose’s writings can be read on Wig Wag Magazine, Untoward Magazine, and Essay Daily, and appear in various books including Knowing Zasd by His Walk (Dokument Press)and Unfolded Perceptions (Grund).
Two Poems | Aiden Heung
Aiden Heung is a Chinese queer poet born and raised on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. He writes about his personal past in a Tibetan Autonomous Town and the city of Shanghai where he currently lives. His words appeared or forthcoming in The Australian Poetry Journal, Cha: An Asian […]
The Brooklyn Review BIPOC Mentorship Contest
The Brooklyn Review BIPOC Mentorship Contest The Brooklyn Review is holding a contest to offer mentorship to BIPOC writers of Poetry and Fiction. All work submitted to the competition will be considered for publication. One winner from each genre will receive mentorship for three months, the inclusion of their work […]
Little Adoragony / Māyāblues Driver | Aristilde Paz Justine Kirby
Aristilde Paz Justine Kirby is a poet. She has chapbooks with Belladonna* (Daisy & Catherine) & Black Warrior Review (Sonnet Infinitesimal / Material Girl), the latter is also in The Best American Experimental Writing 2020. She has a radio play on Montez Press Radio (Mairead Connect Radio Club: Point A) […]
Four Poems | mónica teresa ortiz
mónica teresa ortiz was born and raised in Texas. The author of muted blood, published by Black Radish Books in 2018, and winner of the inaugural Host Publications Chapbook Prize, autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist, published in 2019, ortiz currently lives in the Texas Panhandle. Allyson Joan Erwin is an […]
Three Poems | Suzanne S. Rancourt
Suzanne S. Rancourt, Abenaki/Huron descent, has authored two books: Billboard in the Clouds, Curbstone Press / NU Press 2nd print, received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. murmurs at the gate, Unsolicited Press, released May 2019. Ms. Rancourt is a multi-modal EXAT and CASAC with an […]
Open Window at 3PM When I Was Seven | Maya Salameh
Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and Leonard Slade Endowment. Syrian by way of San Diego, she has performed her writing at venues including the Obama White House, Carnegie Hall, and her parents’ kitchen. Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Asian American Writer’s […]
We Are All Tomorrowpeople: A Review of Samuel Amadon’s “Listener”
Forthcoming from Solid Objects on September 28, Samuel Amadon’s Listener is a prosodic exercise in how far the poetic “I” can stretch when the object takes on the power of the subject. This process both begins and ends with an evocation of the epic tradition that is anything but naïve […]
Three Poems | Glenn Morazzini
Glenn Morazzini’s poems have won the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, an Amy Clampitt Residency Fellowship, Maine Arts Commission Literary Fellowship and have been published in Poetry, Rattle, and other journals.
Four Poems | Cleo Abramian
“to admit / the pink wind / is your finger / in my mouth / is not a display / of longing / it’s an exercise / in painting a pearl”