Lynn Wagner – Black Dog de Christo
Black Dog de Christo 1. What dog? Where? And in what wrap? Mastiff? Spitz? Chihuahua? No. None but the black dog bundled. And Christo, would he sketch her architectural? Choose binding to hold her? No. First he must find the place, then carefully decide the cover: a shy translucent saffron to make her a sunspot– […]
Carine Topal – Belye Nochi
Belye Nochi Streets glazed with brine, the reek of a dead wren, and cabbage. Midnight pearls down the narrow channels of Leningrad. It is August. Moonless white nights skulk along the walk to December Street. Further down, the boulevard and the bread-stand. Our bodies are fugitive regrets: true morning will come with its rusted sun […]
Joannie Stangeland – Things I Forgot about Love
Things I Forgot about Love In this boat, we each have an oar. How not to row in circles. It isn’t the waves. We can ride the waves. How gently we can rock, the shoreline thinning. It isn’t only the green ocean, the fever, heart wingful. It isn’t about a map, but that map might […]
Martha Silano – Poetry,
Poetry, they said. Focus like a plank of wood stays focused on the plank it rubs against, the nails, on the warping as they age. Stay creative. Like others, create. Flourish like a leaf leafing, like a Kentucky spring, like the network in a stem. Let your brain be French or Guyanese, create un-dreading routines. […]
Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Asterism Ae Hee Lee Tupelo Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards In a recent online event in which Ae Hee Lee read poems from her new, first full-length collection, Asterism, she shared that in writing it she was “engaging with the idea of longing,” which she “tried to reimagine as something that moves and expands … […]
