Even as end-of-the-year booklists become absurdly thick on the ground (on the internet), BookThug elects, unapologetically, to add water to the sea. This time we move into the general’s tent, […]
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BookThug’s Best Reads 2014 (Authors’ Edition)
In deference to what has become a robust tradition on the internet, the gang at BookThug is proud to present a festive bundle of end-of-the-year book lists! In today’s episode, […]
Continue readingPhil Hall talks with R. Kolewe about his debut collection Afterletters
Afterletters by R. Kolewe is a collection of poems that works with and through the writings of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan. In the following interview, BookThug’s Poetry Editor Phil […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #22: Aisha Sasha John
self-portrait self-hugging elegance being a favourite escape elegance itself always wanting it felt true and that’s elegance, grace like a calm wind I am happy to know such elegance and […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #21: Shannon Maguire
from “Pearl/Buttons” near the hour of dawn a stranger unfamiliar flowers she might have been named Sylvia or Buttons or Applied Computing Astrolabe and near to her the split of daisy bombs 53 reviews […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #20: David B. Goldstein
WHAT LUCY USED TO BE What Lucy used to be, I now am. Or rather, I accommodate her foibles; they live on in me now that she is gone. For […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #19: Colin Fulton
Friendship You can say it. Our friendship concluded conceptually over the course of several uneventful weeks, and our poems lent recognition to and provided impetus for many world movements. Long […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #18: Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts
from The Obvious Flap I am not a slack bard, I don’t want a chorus. Here under the bird world, there is movement between h and m, between humans and […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #17: Kim Minkus
3 nonets from “24 Nonets After Reading Edward Byrne’s Sonnets: Louise Labé” 7 Lying spirit tightly strung you are most dangerous with all the points of your desire I come […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #16: David Dowker & Christine Stewart
a breach (amphibrach) object ache* each abject stratification collapses in the culmination which brings us to the apex of the inverse aversion, spiritualized app- liances hap- hazardly rap- tured, tri- […]
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