“National Poetry Month” #12: Phil Hall
from THANKS ALL THE SAME Where #7’s survey tangent cuts across the old lumber draw-roads through limestone highlands to the Ottawa a starling picks at a blood-orange thrown half-eaten to […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #11: Cara Benson
from (made) Pile of feathers like raked leaves every child dives into and tosses up to fall as wings between arms and waist. Gathered mounds about the yard. White goose. […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #10: Victor Coleman
From MAL ARME G Independent of a Debate on Form for Kate (in the key of) Because true works (as I often say) in the official canon, have leapt into the […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #9: Erín Moure
PILLAGE 2 (“High Prairie”) – from Pillage Laud by Erín Moure for you who validated the earth with your ferocityWit – whom were you seizing?To read was so comfortable […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #8: Beatriz Hausner
External Mutation Still, I am relentlessly drawn to these outward signs of inward subversion. I lust for women who show signs of intensity. Who are not afraid of extremes… I […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #7: Michael Woods
from World News Story A man out in the City who lost his information technology job three weeks before had to sign on to the dole for the first time […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #6: Sandra Ridley
From “Testamonium”, The Counting House XV. You began with love. Unfailing. Intended invariably. Love always involves a degree of pain. In that. Constancy. The possessor never explicitly admitted or denied. […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #5: Nicole Markotić
Adjectives and Adverbs Seven Monks with European accents kneel blessedly on the even stone, weep regularly beside the last corner, sigh Protect the vital months, pause gayly at the beginning […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #4: Michael Boughn
The Mad Trapper of Rat River Most people engaged in either extraordinary chase associated with normal forms of etiquette or some other enforcement of regular outcomes will find the whole […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #3: Julie Joosten
Ghost Species Henry David Thoreau would describe the seasons, listing the flowering times of wildflowers around Concord Massachusetts (1851-1858). It continues today: the data, the occasional field, the wildflowers, declining. […]
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