By Queen Mob

Torpid Slivers #36

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Must have tumbled out, poor chap. I’ll give him a lift back…

Vlad Interviews: C.C. Hannett

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Today, my interlocutor is C.C. Hannett. I could tell you about him, but it would be better if he told us about himself.

Eunoia in Two Parts: Kripi Malviya & Medha Singh

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Reviews
The Hindi word “viraha” which means recognizing love through separation has been swimming about my head lately

Eurovision Poetry Festival

Notes on ‘Bad Boy Poet’

Torpid Slivers #35

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Mock away, Xaphariaxa. Should any of your words sting, I need only recall that you are the mother of that brat Gangrezzelas.

Torpid Slivers #34

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The mating columnhoppers (Stictocephala capitellum) will not be happy until they can replicate in silhouette the hand of the entomologist T. Velchzinger

Interview: Marianne Micros

The Writer’s Life

/ Eli S. Evans / Misc
When I am writing poorly, nothing else in the world seems good enough, either.

Poets Online Talking About Coffee: Erin Hoover

/ Queen Mob / Misc
October has been a hard month fighting the capitalist, white supremacist patriarchy that is the current U.S. government.

Vlad Interviews: Genia and Daria Blum

/ Vlad Savich / Interviews
Like bad literature, a form of “fake ballet” exists, practiced by those inept in the use of this language

Torpid Slivers #33

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Bephimogostoloma-Finnifigletch (a.k.a. Bletchmog, Botchmug, Fetchpug or Gustolomomorynomothobatollus) is a mighty baronet of Hell

The Smallest Tear: On Crying, Reading and Releasing

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Misc
The first time A speaks about her inability to cry after starting with antidepressants, the streets of Mumbai are angling for space between Atlantis and Venice.

Vlad Interviews: Adrian Manning

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
When I hear the name Adrian, I recall a Soviet cosmonaut Adrian Nikolayev. Are you an astronaut too?

On Cocaine

/ Scott Manley Hadley / Misc
There was a time when cocaine could be bought in a chemist

Torpid Slivers #32

/ Colin Raff / Misc
If you think C and D are exactly alike, accept that you will never find out where the treasure is hidden.

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Joyce Mansour

/ Carol Martin-Sperry / Sex
I opened your head/ To read your thoughts/ I crunched your eyes/ To taste your sight

Torpid Slivers #31

/ Colin Raff / Misc
They say a sailor’s lot is rougher now than it’s ever been.

Interview: Adam Lindsay Honsinger

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
Novel writing is a marathon, and I like to keep writing when I take a break from writing.

Torpid Slivers #30

/ Colin Raff / Misc
This costume, designed after Haugrellet’s “Bivaloum Racing Along the Glaubenberg Pass,” is of azure satin with golden bands, buttons, tassel and mask trimming.

Torpid Slivers #29

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Even the best of us, in our tender years, were at some moments cruel to other children.

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Safe Word

/ Justin Holliday / Misc
Safety is knowing / every word you wish to say: your lips cracked, / tongue twisted when I claw my path

Vlad Interviews: John Yamrus

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
“What kind of a role does a poet play in American society?” ...Nothing. None. Poets are court jesters...

Call for Submissions: Hawk & Whippoorwill

/ Queen Mob / Misc
Submit to a series of chapbooks dedicated to endangered and threatened animals in New England.