...Tara Skurtu © 2013 Tara Skurtu 2013 Tara Skurtu Morning Love Poem Dreamt last night I fed you, unknowingly, something you were allergic to. And you were gone, like that. You don’t have even a single allergy, but still. The dream cracked. Cars nosedived...

...Alan Michael Parker © 2014 Alan Michael Parker 2014 Alan Michael Parker Twenty-One Titles for a Revenge Poem I kicked his sorry ass out eight years ago.  —Tim​ 1. Self-Portrait as an Empty Chair. 2...

...Dean Young © 2015 Dean Young 2015 Dean Young Three-Hearted Poem There’s a slight knock at the door and when I open it, there’s a mailman- sized moth. That’s how I know I’ve shrunk even more than the last time when a blue cloud told me I was drunk, I...

...Christian Detisch © 2015 Christian Detisch 2015 Christian Detisch this is not a poem about longing the absence of love or sentimentality (sentimentality my friend says is for people who can’t handle real emotions) since I think you would hate that kind...

...Brett Elizabeth Jenkins © 2015 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins 2015 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Hangover Poem the huzz of the radio this whole place smells like asses inside of a foot inside of my skull just below my epidermis a pricking fuzz shimmies...

...Walt Hunter This essay considers how poems and lyrical prose by J. H. Prynne, Kofi Awoonor, and Natasha Trethewey examine the conditions of possibility for a global subject in the light of finality: that which may no longer be prevented nor undone. Revising the tradition of the locodescriptive...

...Michael Martin Shea © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Michael Martin Shea Eight Months in Buenos Aires as Still Life with Skull poem opens with a line from Erin Belieu’s “At Last” In the end, what you loved moves across seasons, so you think about winter break...

...Sean Cho A. Sean Cho A. Future Poem: nine months sober You ve been still in all the right ways: you came back empty-handed, fresh-minded on all your spring- time walks to nowhere. Just like you were supposed to. Last December your throat was filled with want. Your task: throw out everything you...

...Jane Zwart [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Jane Zwart 2023 Jane Zwart Poem Beginning with a Sentence from Saleem Reshamwala If you think on the right time scale, a rock is like a kiss. But I do not watch the kids winging shingle back into a lake, a mudstone at a time, and think...

...Paul Tulloch © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 13 Poems from the “Being at Work” Poetry Challenge The “Being at Work” Poetry Challenge started off as a small attempt to add to the historical compendium of work poetry a cross...

...Walt Hunter The lyric poem has often been understood as incompatible with other discourses, set apart by its compression, privacy, and identification with the individual self. Recently, the New Lyric Studies has rejected both the essentialism and the exceptionalism of the lyric as a genre or mode...

.... The essay examines one contemporary mode, ecopoetics, as an emergent literature of the Anthropocene and highlights the new questions of voice, relation, and address that it explores. Through readings of poems by Brenda Hillman, Juliana Spahr, Evelyn Reilly, and Michael Leong, “Anthropogenic Poetics” argues...

...Vanita Reddy; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude . Patel’s migritude poetics resonates...

.... Wade at a national level. The primary motif of this poem is the work of eighteenth-century Dutch still-life painter Rachel Ruysch. Through creatively rendering (or reworking) her images, alongside other sources, into lyric verse, the poet attempts to produce textual and sonic arrangements akin...

... arguments against Derrida, but his complaint about textual materialism (regardless of who actually succumbs to it) is a legitimate one. Materialism, as an explanation of the mode of being of a poem (or any other text), claims that the poem is just its material realization—say, a piece of paper...

... home in Cedar Falls. Like the Tennyson brothers back in 1827, Steve and his brother Barry have published a collection of their poems—Schooled Lives: Poems by Two Brothers (1st World Publishing, Blue Light Press). Steve has had more than twenty poems published in the Christian Science...

.... That’s why this poem looks like a cigarette dangling from the lips of a boy who is too old for you, smells like a girl, tastes like bubble gum. This poem wants you dancing in a cage at the zoo, in the backseat of a Camaro all night long. Listen to this poem as we wait outside...