Richard Vargas’s Leaving a Tip at the Blue Moon Motel, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Leaving a Tip at the Blue Moon Motel Richard Vargas Casa Urraca Press Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Having followed the work of Richard Vargas since his first collection, 2005’s McLife, I’m not surprised to find that Leaving a Tip at the Blue Moon Motel is filled with poems that explore, in depth, that inescapable yet spirit […]
Amanda J. Bradley – Making It Right
Making It Right I heard your horizon promises, took the risk, left my husband that long May – your call, my response now inked in poems and songs, relics of a star-swept history. It is not history like army squadrons warring or marching homeward, charcoal shadows backlit by pinkish sky. Or maybe it is. Perhaps […]
Heidi Seaborn – C Is for Cruelty
C is for Cruelty Almost daily, my sisters and I terrorized our too beautiful baby brother. One summer night, we chased him off a dock. Such a small splash in the darkness, his moonface bobbing. Perhaps that evening was the turning point when we went too far. After, our cruelty to one another reduced to […]
Zachariah Claypole White – Postcards to the Angel [unmailed]
Postcards to the Angel [unmailed] Last night someone spiked my drink and [just say it] I woke up in a hospital bed, all these pointless poems bleeding from two fingers. Snow has covered and cleaned vomit from the steps; there are footprints in the ice, blood on my door. We always return to violence, don’t […]
Martin Settle – My Reader As Prosthesis
My Reader As Prosthesis come with me I have lived many lives all of them my own all of them lies ride the contours of my brain we’ll name a mountain room with me on a passenger ship we’ll drink wine we’ll spit in the ocean I’ll deny that I ever knew you in open […]
