Whitman on Walls: Seven Tupelo Poets Wrestle with “Song of Myself” During the pandemic, the theater group Compagnia […]
Wendy Chen
I. My restless, I wait for youon the emerald lawn. My fingerswrite a dictionary, pen your faceupon the […]
On Becoming by J. Mae Barizo
“I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city.” From “Manhatta” by Walt Whitman This irony […]
MANHATTAN by Chard deNiord
To end in nebula or flower, fiber of your blood— Sun catches the […]
Contradictions (film seven) by Karla Kelsey
KB Kinkel is a writer based in Massachusetts. His poems, interviews, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming […]
Prodigal, You Have Given Me Love by KB Kinkel
To Walt Whitman on “Gratitude” Through me many long dumb voices,—Whitman, “Song of Myself,” 24, line 15 My […]
Rocking Not in Your Cradle by Rosa Lane
We are speaking and singing with pigeons and grasses and rooftops, with paintings and choruses and a deep robust […]
Seen + Unseen by Jennifer Militello
In saying the midnight the breast the darknesshe pushes the one we have conqueredover the captain the quarter […]
On Telling by Allyson Paty
Curated and introduced by L.J. Sysko with Special Contributors Ross Gay, David Stern, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Barbara Ras, Yesenia […]
Gerald Stern (1925-2022), Beloved American Poet: A 100th Birthday Tribute ...
PROCESS NOTE This poem was inspired by an aerial view of my town in the Southern Rockies. Everything […]
Video Poem: “When They Came for Us” by Johanna Debiase
PROCESS NOTE Ailyn and CR met as fellows at the Vermont Studio Center in Winter 2023. Ailyn was […]
“Good Shoes Take You To Good Places” and “My Dearest ...
PROCESS NOTE Character + Flaw transforms and alters pages from a 1908 book called The Compendium of Every […]