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Category Archives: Poetry
Poetry by Emily Moore
Love Song To wear a black corduroy jumper with red roses that your mom picked out from Lord & Taylor for ballroom lessons in the seventh grade and which you wore more happily when you cleared plates at dinners for the Junior League when her friends praised you as you soaped the bowls is to … Continue reading
March/April Editor Spotlight: Michelle Peñaloza
Our poetry editor for March/April is Michelle Peñaloza who grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of two chapbooks: landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias Press, 2015) and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (forthcoming, Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). Her poetry can be found in The Asian American Literary Review, The New England Review, TriQuarterly, Pinwheel, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from the University of Oregon, Kundiman, Artist … Continue reading
Poetry by Andrew K. Peterson
Thirty Soul Mates Today we’ll likely witness the first Norton Poetry Lecture partially delivered by keytar. Quiz: considering prior recipients— (a) Eliot, (b) Hancock, (c) Cage, (d) Kentridge— who might’ve said, there are no wrong notes, just better choices? My point being, recent thinking on the state of the soul mate has been … Continue reading
Three poems by Lawrence Eby
Io Metis Amalthea Io Volcanic stalagmite child covered in the blanket of eclipse, I can hear you. Jupiter storms waking your sisters held inside you. Siren sung. Shipwreck. We’ve seen these tropes before. When you settle, what birthed will seem familiar? This brilliant life spewing into the vacant cold of space. We now know it … Continue reading
Poetry by Tina Mozelle Braziel
Allure Song Allure 1. Suede Nude before the mirror, she scrutinizes her sapling legs and the ant-bite swell of breasts, searching for some allure there. She fingers the gold sequined thong, then steps into it the way she’d cross a low wall. Sliding into heels, she grasps her hips. Sashay, she thinks, sashay like the … Continue reading
Two Poems by Patrick Fontes
Two Poems by Patrick Fontes Mi Primo’s Stain The Dust Blower’s Dream Mi Primo’s Stain Mi primo’s canvas painted body monochrome India ink on brown skin blurred scribble on his forearm faded into prison cell walls at juvie 1983 then Corcoran, Wasco, Tracy, Quentin “Damn primo, this is my second strike” he scoops more of … Continue reading
Poetry by Kate Lebo
Two poems by Kate Lebo Ladies, This is the Final Rose Forsythia Ladies, This is the Final Rose with help from ABC’s The Bachelor 1. To the one-armed girl on rollerskates he says You have no reason to be scared. She falls to prove her bravery. This is not the same thing as fear … Continue reading
Poetry by Chelsey Weber-Smith
Three Poems by Chelsey Weber-Smith One day someone important will say this is not a poem Walking up and down the same strip of land Li Po, I heard your drunk ass tried to embrace the moon and drowned One day someone important will say this is not a poem so I’ll join … Continue reading
Poetry by Kamden Hilliard
Two poems by Kamden Hilliard Hong Kong Aubade Nothing is Fast Enough Nothing Hong Kong Aubade above his crack of dawn: a tramp stomped sun spreading the smallness of his hard backing cast under the hungover light of an unfamiliar city and after these assorted mistakes (beer, a dead phone) i dont know … Continue reading
The James Franco Review 