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: THE SHAPE OF IT by Wendy Xu
The Shape of It by Wendy Xu I wake up and inherit the world as anybody has left it. Perhaps later, some windowless thinking. A red goat stares at me from the kitchen table, his confident black eyes moving in slow passes across my face. It goes on like this. I...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....