On World-building and Unfolding Narratives with Su Croll
June 8, 2022 One of the many wonderful things about this story is that its setting manages to feel both familiar and new at the same time. While we…
Strengthening “Being” Verbs
with Katrina Kaye
May 9, 2022 This is a revision prompt so you need a poem you have already written and are workshopping. The prompt itself is pretty simple. Reread your poem and identify any "being"…
Some Notes on the Zuihitsu
by John Morgan
May 1, 2022 We tend to think of Japanese forms as tight, syllable-counting, and focused on nature, but the zuihitsu is a kind of anti-haiku—a long prose poem that brings…
After the Forgetting
When Mercy woke up, the TV was on. It was too loud. Someone yelling and repeating something, but she couldn’t make it out. She slumped against the body beside her…
Motherhood and Poetic Experimentation with Kara Rea
June 2, 2022 “In the Spring” has an interesting form, in terms of line lengths and stanza lengths. I love the way the stanzas seem to drip into each other.…
Expanded Identity with Janna Grace
May 30, 2022 I love how breathless “When Your Words Are Dough” reads, as though you take one big breath and exhale an entire poem without needing more air. Can…
When Your Words Are Dough • We Bring What We Want
When Your Words Are DoughYou know the statement "you're too oldfor skateboards" is the yeast of wordsyour father would bake, yet you cannot kneadthem back. Your partner's face doesn'tfall because…
Significant Others
I had a father who fried eggs in the middle of the nightfor my legless young self; a man to rely on.‘76, a long-legged man dressed in borrowed black nuzzled…
Progeny • Sacred Places Tinged with Night • Gretel on the Couch
Progeny Pray in the garden past tulips & lettuce. Heads near spikes announce herbs. Not a single witch burns here, just married ones. Offspring hit their knees & weed gray…
The Vanishing Act
My brother Freddy always told people that our mother disappeared – and probably died – by falling off of a yacht one night after drinking with two actor friends. Both…