For our first Poetry Spotlight of 2012, three poems by Ely Shipley.
Shipley's first book, Boy with Flowers, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, the 2009 Thom Gunn Award, and was a Lambda Literary finalist. His poems and lyric essays appear in Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Phoebe, Greensboro Review, Barrow Street, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Read More
This week, four new poems by Jon L. Jensen.
Jon L. Jensen has spent the last decade in Harlem, New York, but his poetic universe has never escaped the badlands of his native Wyoming. He also works as an essayist and translator of Russian verse, holding degrees in Classics, Russian and Rhetoric. In former lives, he has worked as Mormon missionary trying to save Evangelicals in the Deep South and as a Peace Corps volunteer trying to teach HIV prevention to sex workers on the streets of Moscow. The poems included here are a part of a book-length manuscript, The Flannel Lord. Read More
This week, a poem from Jeff Mann.
Jeff Mann's books include three collections of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine, On the Tongue, and Ash: Poems from Norse Mythology; two books of personal essays, Edge: Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear and Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Read More
This week, three new poems by Carol Potter: "Zucchini," "If Bees Eat" and "Later."
Carol Potter's fourth book of poems, Otherwise Obedient (Red Hen Press, 2007), was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT poetry. Her book Short History of Pets won the 1999 Cleveland State Poetry Center Award, and the Balcones Award. Read More
Today, two new poems by Monica McClure....
This week, three new poems from Derrick Austin....
This week, a new poem by Elaine Sexton (featured in this month’s issue of Fogged Clarity)....
In this week’s Poetry Spotlight, two poems from Michael Montlack’s new book Cool Limbo (NYQ Books)....
In this week’s Poetry Spotlight, two new poems from Eloise Klein Healy....
This week, two poems from Craig Moreau’s Chelsea Boy–out this week on Chelsea Station Editions....
