Sylee Gore is writing on new uses of photography in poetry at the University of Oxford, where she is poetry editor of the Oxford Review of Books. She was jointly awarded the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize in 2020, and her chapbook, Even Still, was published by Sampson Low of […]
Two Poems | Cody Tieman
Cody Tieman is a queer writer, cat dad, and poet based in Columbus, Ohio. He studied English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Denison University and is headed to Miami University for an MFA in Creative Writing in the fall. His work can be found in The Allegheny Review, Exile […]
Two Poems | zakia henderson-brown
zakia henderson-brown is the author of What Kind of Omen Am I, winner of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, selected by Cate Marvin. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, was a Poets House Emerging Poets fellow, and has received additional fellowships and support from the Fine […]
To Clara Hawwa (1936–2022) | Kaleem Hawa
Kaleem Hawa writes about art, film, and literature. Jon Perry Davis is an outsider artist and musician living and working in Brooklyn. He currently focuses on painting, drawing, and songwriting. Although he does not consider himself an overtly depressive or morose individual, his work often depicts scenes of chaos and despair. […]
Two Poems | Benjamin Krusling
Benjamin Krusling works in sound, language, and moving image. He is the author of the book GLARING (Wendy’s Subway, 2020) and a digital text-image project, i have too much to hide (Triple Canopy, 2021), and currently pursuing a PhD in English at CUNY Graduate Center.
Two Poems | Loisa Fenichell
Loisa Fenichell’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has been featured or is forthcoming in Guernica magazine, Washington Square Review, Narrative magazine, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of an award from Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop and is currently […]
Two Poems | Erika Rodriguez
Erika Rodriguez is a poet and essayist working in the public humanities.
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”
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 | 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”
Two Poems | Ayesha Raees
“in every in-between / I was born ready / yet I have still afforded
to lose / over not having / a house / a man / a body / a life”
A Boy Turns the Key His Own Breath Bursts | Dan Rosenberg
Dan Rosenberg is the author of cadabra (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and The Crushing Organ (Dream Horse Press), which won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. He has also written two chapbooks, A Thread of Hands (Tilt Press) and Thigh’s Hollow (Omnidawn), which won the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, and he co-translated Miklavž Komelj’s Hippodrome (Zephyr Press). Rosenberg’s poems have […]
The daughter of my voice | Monroe Lawrence
Monroe Lawrence was born and grew up on unceded Coast Salish Lands. His favourite writers include Hannah Weiner, Vi Khi Nao, Marcel Proust, and listen chen. His past writing can be found in Best American Experimental Writing and The Capilano Review, and in a chapbook, Nice,.
“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, […]
Three Poems | Madeleine Barnes
(Read an interview with Barnes and her mother, Michelle Maher, on the site here.) DIAGNOSIS I do not call you out of your hideaway. No one knows how much time. I do not say How much time? I do not make offerings. I do not shake out the wreath of […]
Notes from the Insomniac | Ben Morgan
Ben Morgan is in a one-man punk band from Suffolk, United Kingdom. He graduated from University College London where he studied English Literature and was published in Savage. He has received no accolades of note.
Two Poems | Tobi Kassim
Your Daily Mixed it’s okay the aggregators have mademany mixes for me in my father’scloud i am algorithmically relatable. there’s some familiar stepsand setlists to the ways i’m finallyreducible. impossible to resist i’ll itchto let it play automatically. be knowable for days. i […]
Two Poems | Margaret Wright
Margaret Wright works, walks, and writes in Brooklyn, NY. She has received a Martin A. Dale Fellowship from Princeton University and a Monson Arts residency.