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“15 Poems to Avoid” [by Rebecca Endres]
15 Poems to Avoid The “very punny” The overly enthusiastic— Dickinson!— Fan! The simile that’s as overused as your favorite tee-shirt The cliché that has all the teenagers rolling their eyes moodily The hyperbolic…
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John Donne’s “Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Eve”
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks ;The sun is spent, and now his flasksSend forth light squibs, no constant rays ;The world’s whole sap…
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A Husbandry of Risk and Want in a House Run by Mothers: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Tommye Blount’s What Are We Not For
What Are We Not ForTommye BlountBull City Press, 2016 Tommye Blount’s debut chapbook, What Are We Not For, artfully explores what it means to live inside a black queer body at this particular time…
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A Conversation with L. Lamar Wilson [by Abdul Ali]
Abdul Ali: I'd like to know how the process of writing your first book and receiving the kind of recognition you did either helped or intimidated you to begin work on something new? L.…
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RAY DIPALMA R.I.P [by Michael Lally]
This is me and Ray sometime in the 1960s I believe…we first met at the University of Iowa when I arrived there after four years in the military to try and get into their…
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“The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski
your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods…
