National Poetry Month: IMAGINE IF EVERYONE YOU EVER LOVED NEVER STOPPED by Kallie Falandays
Imagine If Everyone You Ever Loved Never Stopped by Kallie Falandays Touching you. If you never stopped changing: You’re still in your bedroom: blue lamp-light, still teenage-hurt, no alarm clock. How do you get up in the morning after being held down by so...
National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘A YELLOW PENCIL IN MIDAIR KEPT SKETCHING’ by Adam Atkinson
Jacket Copy for ‘A Yellow Pencil in Midair Kept Sketching’ by Adam Atkinson Things are either metaphors or not in these poems. “Three ghosts pin / the tail on the reader.” Ghost or literal ghost? Literate ghosts know these poems by...National Poetry Month: EXO-SECRETARAIT by Blake Lee Pate
Exo-Secretariat by Blake Lee Pate Exo-girl convinced the boss her girls are hot, have skirts, nice handwriting. 8:00 a.m. We’re period plagued and auto-receiving at our desks splitting our hair ends & running our stock- ings up & down the halls....
National Poetry Month: ANTERIOR OF A RAZED ROOM by Cori A. Winrock
Anterior of a Razed Room by Cori A. Winrock What corseting—: the room cinched in as the wrecking drill bores down, its metal threaded vertebrae spiraling slow through our plaster and horsehair insulation, the seven-layer wallpapers caked over and over...