This week, three poems from Naomi Replansky's Collected Poems (Godine/Black Sparrow Books).
Replansky was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1918. Ring Song (Scribner, 1952) was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. The Dangerous World: New and Selected Poems 1934-1994 was published by Another Chicago Press in 1994. Her Collected Poems were just published by Godine. Read More
This week, a poem by Tory Adkisson.
Adkisson recently earned his MFA from The Ohio State University and recently has had work featured in Cave Wall, Linebreak, and 32 Poems. A Southern California native, he currently lives in Athens, where he attends the PhD program in literature and creative writing at the University of Georgia. Read More
This week, a poem from Sophia Le Fraga. Le Fraga takes Adrienne Rich at her word and "diagram[s] the sentence".
Le Fraga finished her B.A. in Linguistics and Poetry at New York University. Her work has appeared in Yes Poetry; Quantum Poetry; Paperblög; A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; The Copperfield Review; The Broome Street Review and Lemon Hound; and was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and in 2011, throughout Berlin. A book of erasures, Song of Me and Myself, is forthcoming. Read More
This week, enjoy a special double-feature Spotlight with work from the winners of the two poetry categories from this year's Lambda Literary Awards: "femmes are film stars" from Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (TSAR Publications), and "After a Line by Ted Berrigan" from A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos edited by David Trinidad (Nightboat Books). Read More
From this year’s winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos edited...
From this year’s winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (TSAR Publications)....
Today, a poem by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.
Holnes is a poet and playwright. He is the recipient of scholarships to Cave Canem and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, various awards, writing fellowships, and writer's residencies. He and his work have appeared in the Kennedy Center College Theater Festival, TIME Magazine, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, on The Best American Poetry blog as one of the Phantastique 5, and elsewhere.
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This week, a poem by Rex Leonowicz.
Leonowicz is a trans-identified intersectional feminist from New York City. His poems have appeared in Bodies of Work magazine and Testimony, an exhibition and online journal of lgbtq creative work. Read More
Today, two poems by Sarah Sarai....
Today, a new poem by Gabriella Belfiglio.
Born in Philadelphia, Belfiglio holds a BA in Creative Writing from Antioch University and an MFA in Poetry from American University. Her writing has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Folio, The Centrifugal Eye, and the award-winning Poetic Voices without Borders. Read More
