In the beginning, there is no yes. The amniotic sac a dust jacket for the book […]
Kristina Marie Darling
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ANIMALS-OF-DAWN.pdf Poet, translator and essayist, Murat Nemet-Nejat grew up in Istanbul, came to the […]
Animals of Dawn by Murat Nemet-Nejat
America, almost independent for its two hundred fortieth year, is an interstate highway in Birmingham, where […]
To The Black Man Popping A Wheelie On Interstate 59 ...
We were only near each other so we took a class […]
Abstract Therapy in the Natural World by Bill Neumire
Poet-Reader-Person, what color is your heart? Green, says Sharon Olds (Deep in my body, my green […]
Lines Flecked With Gold and Scarlet: An Experiment in ...
Narnia author C.S. Lewis said “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can […]
I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast by Melissa Studdard
Max Ritvo’s poetry moves from strength to strength: that of knowing image; of a vivid metaphor returned to […]
The Poetic Reincarnation of Max Ritvo
Ocean Vuong’s stunning debut collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds meditates on belonging and exile, fathers and sons, […]
Body, Language in Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Gabriel Blackwell describes Madeleine E, a project he began as a personal rumination on Hitchcock’s Vertigo, as “a […]
Madeleine E. by Gabriel Blackwell
Kathleen Ossip’s first book The Search Engine (winner of the 2002 Honickman Prize) and her second, The Cold […]
The Do-Over Poems: Kathleen Ossip Shows Us How to Remember
From the first sentence of The Sorrow Proper (“The library may close…”), impending ends begin to accrue. Truly, […]
The Sorrow Proper by Lindsey Drager
Seth Landman’s poetry is not perfect. It’s digressive and recursive, rambling and at times even ranting. It feels […]