This week, a poem by Eric Joonho.
Born and raised in Georgia, Joonho is a doctoral candidate in English at Columbia University.
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This week, a poem by Day Mattar.
Day Mattar is is a Graduate of English Literature and Creative Writing, in LJMU, Liverpool, UK; and a queer, Radical-Faerie, kitchen-witch, who hopes to return to Brooklyn, next year, to study poetry at post-grad level.
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"There is a certain level of exhaustion moving from city to city and experiencing the same challenges. It’s as though all of our cities are becoming monolithic representations of so many systematic ills, becoming indistinguishable from each other."
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This week, a text from Miguel Gutierrez's performance myendlesslove, which runs this Wednesday through Saturday (Oct. 16-19) at 8pm at the Abrons Arts Center.
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Roz Kaveney’s Dialectic of the Flesh may be pocket-sized, but the poems in this book open up into pathways dark and guttural, witty and wistful. Read More
This week, two poems by David Eye.
Eye earned a midlife MFA at Syracuse University in 2008, and teaches creative writing and composition at Manhattan College in the Bronx. His poems have appeared in Bloom, The Louisville Review, Stone Canoe, and others. His chapbook, Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past, has been selected for the Editor's Series at Seven Kitchens Press.
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A new poem by R. Zamora Linmark treats us to a rainy day at the movies.
R. Zamora Linmark is the author of Rolling The R's and Leche and three collections of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press. He divides his time between Honolulu and Manila, where he is currently working on a novel, revising a play, and completing his fourth poetry collection. Read More
As David Lehman suggests in his foreword to The Best American Poetry 2012, Mark Doty collects a wide variety of poems that have a mysterious and “uncanny” quality, poems which are almost haunted by the “spirit in the dark.” Read More
This week, a new poem by Erin M. Bertram....
Poet Lesléa Newman, author of the lesbian children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies, arrived in Laramie,Wyoming in the fall of 1998, just five days after 21-year-old gay man Matthew Shepard was discovered in the wild, tied to a fence, crying, beaten and dying. Read More
