by Ashley Roy | Jun 21, 2018 | Poetry
INTERVIEW WITH THYLIAS MOSS In addition to your recent Pushcart Prize, you’ve also received a number of other major awards, including a MacArthur and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Interestingly, though, you trace your career as a poet back to a very humble award you...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 15, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Back View by Alexander Chubar NOTHING UNUSUAL A new study was issued on Tuesday on the institutionalization of cruel and unusual punishment, and fake news, hatred, and stupidity which concluded what some leaders went through as middle school students imbued...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 13, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Through the Looking Glasses by Rebecca Oet OVERHEARD As evening sneaks around the house, the ironing board and kitchen sink gossip about your first kiss. Inexplicable – how they understand the intimacy of wind-brushed clouds; how, in this chartreuse spring,...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 11, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Alison Prine WHAT I KNOW OF “GOOD” Bad things are going to happen. – Ellen Bass, “Relax” Perennials return without a thought and so do volunteers from maples and japonica. Nature recruits another nursery at no extra cost. Lab tests...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 6, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Auto-Rotation by W. Jack Savage ZEP Michael is playing air guitar, bebopping by himself miles behind me in the baking sun that refuses to shine on him because he sees only the shadows and not the blooming Colza on the yellow hills or the blue peaks stretched out...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 4, 2018 | Poetry
Art: Alexander Wagentristl, @elekrocher A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH A cry into the world One out Sliding in sliding out Faces behind the glass A naming An identification given The answer yes The statement no A blue blanket Yellow tape Liquid flowing down Pain...
