Roger Leege started out as a painter, printmaker and analog photographer, earning his MA in […]
Ryan Gunn
I don’t want to end up an old drag queen. OCTAVIA SAINT LAURENT This is no primrose […]
Legendary (2) by Nicole Sealey
I saw my faith riding on the light in the ocean one morning when the sound […]
Unspoken by Afaa Michael Weaver
Your scapula is a fin, The way it cuts. My palm is snow on a drumlin. The […]
Stack by Michael Pontacoloni
Hundreds of years ago when my body was a canoe on the water, when my mind was […]
Idyll in Late Summer by Nate Pritts
See it. I’ll force you. The baby’s head, dark and bloody, coming […]
Baudelaire’s Sister at the Betty Ford by Deirdra McAfee
For this issue of TQ, which has called up a theme of the relationship between poets and […]
Fort Juniper: A Poet’s Place by Jessamyn Smyth
There’s a drop-out girl on my block now (eleven going on seventeen) who each day sits […]
Vidalia by Alice Anderson
I tell her, my jaw came apart, but first there was the cracking like strikes and strikes […]
Mother always knows, so by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Please come down and live with us. My daughter wants a simple playmate. My son […]
Invitation by Kathleen McGookey
I heard about water cats for the first time in a coffee house in Kasımpaşa [1]. A […]