A POEM ABOUT BLUEGILLS There are poems about bluegills. There are poems about trout. The bluegill doesn’t give a shit. It’ll eat a bare hook… Read more “Poem of the Day: David Dodd Lee”
Tag: New Issues Poetry and Prose
Poem of the Day: John Rybicki
I AM MAD AND THIS IS HOW I DANCE I wheel my bed into the yard, stand it upright, braced on all sides by ropes.… Read more “Poem of the Day: John Rybicki”
Poem of the Day: Julie Moulds
AFTER READING RUMI I say my prayers upside down, the wind blowing me like a clothespinned robe, my little bat hands curled together. I look… Read more “Poem of the Day: Julie Moulds”
Poem of the Day: Beckian Fritz Goldberg
CROCUS I wanted to stay in the earth: There, I needed no skin—the dark body was all around me. I had no tongue. Above me,… Read more “Poem of the Day: Beckian Fritz Goldberg”
Poem of the Day: Diane Seuss
IT BLOWS YOU HOLLOW It takes your bones to bed, tongues out the marrow. Says it will meet you halfway, a hotel deep in Oklahoma… Read more “Poem of the Day: Diane Seuss”
Remembering Herbert Scott
SLEEPING WOMAN —after the painting by Richard Diebenkorn I’m walking east down Lovell in Kalamazoo… Read more “Remembering Herbert Scott”
“The Snapping Open of a Valve / A Bird’s Egg”: Reading Kerrin McCadden’s Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes
No matter how long I’ve been reading and writing professionally, it still amazes me how much a little time away can contribute to my appreciation of… Read more ““The Snapping Open of a Valve / A Bird’s Egg”: Reading Kerrin McCadden’s Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes”
Reading Kerrin McCadden
BECCA She says, It’s my birthday I’m going tomorrow. What’s your favorite font? What should I have him write? Serifs, I say, I like serifs.… Read more “Reading Kerrin McCadden”