Poem: Ellen Welcker

/ Ellen Welcker / Poetry
past tense means it happened and now it will never stop / and are you become superfund

Review: A Lesser Love

/ Reuven Pinnata / Reviews
Is there a difference between, say, looking at your drunk self in the mirror and being put under government surveillance?

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Song of the Oyster Girl

/ Rita Mookerjee / Sex
She’d lie in wait with her arms around a gigantic pearl / and then emerge in a veil making the birth / of Venus look like a schoolgirl waiting for the bus.

Poem: Leah Sophia Dworkin

Poem: J.A. Pak

/ J.A. Pak / Poetry
Today is the anniversary of my immigration. What I / like to call the Birth of Bleakness. The day I begin to

Poem: Rita Mookerjee

/ Rita Mookerjee / Poetry
An apple keeps its / bones clustered in dense flesh, so / it’s strange to think of / the red pulp in my teeth

Interview: Medha Singh

/ Ruby Nangia / Interviews
I might have said this before somewhere, but it's imperative that the telos is to resist influence.

Poem: Alina Pleskova

/ Alina Pleskova / Poetry
Her profile reads In town for the weekend / trying to feel something—

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’

Interview: Marianne Micros

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.

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?

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

Where Are the Children – Special Issue

/ Jasminne Mendez / Letters & Essays, Poetry
Where are the children special issue Millicent Borges Accardi Millicent Borges Accardi is a Portuguese-American writer […]

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.

Vlad Interviews: Jake St. John

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
A cousin that died years ago visited me in my dream once and he told me that God looked like a giant green frog.

Stone Soup Saturday #2: Chad Parenteau

/ Queen Mob / Misc
New-old / pours into / full glass / you / marked down / spillage.

Poem: Southgate’s Waistcoat

/ Alfred “Football’s Coming Home” Walden / Poetry
Oh! have we now a dream waistcoat

The Power of Poetry