AN ESSAY ON THE SIEGE
Rob Halpern08.29.14
“One thing fattens as another lies prone for feeding.”: a new poem from Rob Halpern, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
PLAN OF FUTURE WORKS
Brandon Brown08.22.14
“The thought of / the dying world makes me feel less sad than really / lazy.”: a new long poem by Brandon Brown, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
GET A MANTRA, JUST OWN IT GRL
Rachel Ellison08.15.14
“In sound and silence I can see, see the theatricality of your quotidian body”: poems of performative pleasure from Rachel Ellison selected by summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
LITTLE WAR
Jackqueline Frost08.08.14
“And mostly we are exhausted and unmoved, even if at times a flare crests the wind and plaining voices rue inside this very long, little war, the opacity of it, around which we stumble as if looking for a light.” A coterie essay from Jackqueline Frost selected by summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
THE FUTURE IS BETWEEN US
Jackie Wang08.01.14
3 new poems by Jackie Wang on the conditions of being possible. “You’re a woman with a diseased heart,” she said, “which should not be confused with heart disease, as a diseased heart is what you get after bleeding too many unstitched metaphors.”
True Black (II)
Thom Donovan07.25.14
“Immanent like no description passes for witness / Repeated until we are one with violence”: a new poem from Thom Donovan selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
WHEN THE LAMBS RISE UP AGAINST THE BIRD OF PREY
Anne Boyer07.18.14
The nature of the lamb and the predator take form in a new poem by Anne Boyer, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
A Question of Form
Jeff Alessandrelli07.17.14
Jeff Alessandrelli talks form and contemporary poetry through a review Edward Hirsch’s A Poet’s Glossary.
Breastfed, Rocked, Deloused, Whipped
Marie Buck07.11.14
Terror and sound abound in a new poem by Marie Buck, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
We Built This City
Anna Vitale07.04.14
Get gold with guns, butter, shinola, and all such other slow wild stacked up today in Independence via a new poem by Anna Vitale, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
