Anna V.Q. Ross' "After All" & D. Dina Friedman's "Amen" After AllAnna V.Q. RossEven when the garlic crop is good,something else is always dying—the peas withering in the afternoon we hopedfor rain instead of watering, the tomatoesover-shaded. It should teach us...
An American ElegyGrace Mattern We go back to not dying,wherever we fall is the beginning —an allée of elms planted to createa lace of sunlight and shadow.What separates branches from windin designing their dance? Nothing.We carry our own seasons wonderingwhen we will...
Grounding Lavender Elisa Rowe Wrap a scarf likekneading dough, poola little lavender to grazemy cheek.My body, a slippingfinger on a piano. Mybody, trembling into tune.I want to be soft likebelonging. I wantmy neurons to fire acountry into memory.Routine is like a...
I dream of a house I’ll never haveCarmen Barefield maybe a little bungalow with a big backyardand a fig tree’s shadow painting the grassits heavy limbs bowing from all its fruitand on move in day, I’ll leave the unpackingto curl up beneath it just because I can the...
notes on: acts of service by Anthony Febo and so i propose to you to ponder thisin all the attire you may dress Love in - a night by fire or a stroll under starlight or the pulse of the city - may you not overlook the way “everyday small acts”...
Permabeauty in the Boston Athenæum by Andie Sheridan In ash and thornin heightful stacks and stairsa librarianstuck through with a pencil--in her hair a pencilstuck through her hair--clutch-touches through the genealogy of not touching orbegrudging;Exposed red...
Jule Shulman's "Wilding" & Holly Guran's "Lifework" WildingJulie Shulman All structures are unstablenotre dame itself will burnyour stubborn body will faileach thing grown fresh and newis already fading and will fall awaybut today I saw a shock of wild...
Jennifer Houle's "The Pain of Others" & Tim Mayo's "The Ladder" The Pain of OthersJennifer Houle Hell is just another curse. It is shallow as a puddle. Old as the cosmos. Muttered and gone. Customary.Hellhole, hellbent, hellenic, to hell with the...
Terms of SyllogismTracy FuadI was sure that being in between meant being nowhere.Certain there were scissors that could cut me off the grid.I hoped there was a key, but was sure the void was serious,virulent and spreading. I was sure alone, most of the time.And...
10+ Questions! is a series in which we catch up with poets who have been featured in our programming. Rage Hezekiah was featured at Mass Poetry’s U35 reading in September 2016 and has led several workshops at Student Day of Poetry.
10+ Questions is a series in which we catch up with poets who have been featured in our programming. Curtis Perdue was featured at Mass Poetry’s U35 reading in October 2014.