“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”
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.
“Materials for Love” | An Interview with Madeleine Barnes and Michelle Maher
With both their debut volumes of poetry appearing this year, the mother and daughter discuss collaboration, pronouns, and the imperative not to look away. Madeleine Barnes and Michelle Maher embody an ode to the family. In the era of viral elegy, in a winter where World War III is trending, […]
Five Poems | Ruben Rodriguez
Telling Grandma Stories At the end of Grandma Esther’s cul-de-sac, summer moon found me coins. Mexican money—round plata imbedded in roots. How do our hands find themselves soiled? Old man bursts through screen door, barking ¿Qué haces? I should have grabbed two handfuls of dirt and run. Instead, Grandma’s pursed […]