Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 18, 2019Matthew Dix, poetry, special feature

Matthew Dix: Coming Out to Abuela

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 18, 2019Matthew Dix, poetry, special feature

coming out to abuela

after Matthew 11:30

when I was young & brown my grandmother

made a promise, slipped a sharp medallion

over my head (head the way hand means

servant). god gave man dominion over

every creeping thing, so when your father died

you bought me a leash: ribbed, leathery,

uneven to appear a natural

supplant to flesh. your father made our yoke

grievous and my father is jealous of

your power: one

operant condition fallible body.

humanly perfect, my leash; the yoke

of your service is easy and light. dogs who eat

their masters begin at the head, like lovers.

Matthew Dix is a poet who lives in Charleston, South Carolina. In the fall he will join Columbia University as an MFA candidate in poetry.

Joanna Valente

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 18, 2017Sage Curtis, special feature, poetry

Sage Curtis: Drowning Daddy Issues

Sage Curtis is a Bay Area poet and MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and she performs it whenever possible. Recently, she's been interested in the glamour and grit of addiction, and places we find it unexpectedly. You can find more of her work at sagedaniellecurtis.wordpress.com

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 18, 2017Sage Curtis, special feature, poetry

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 09, 2017michael e woods, special feature, poetry

michael e woods: Paying for My Father’s Remains

michael e woods used to live with a family of raccoons. He edits the Columbia Poetry Review and teaches at Columbia College Chicago where he is an MFA candidate.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 09, 2017michael e woods, special feature, poetry

michael e woods: Paying for My Father’s Remains

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteOctober 27, 2017special feature, will stanier, poetry

Will Stanier: You Wouldn’t Believe the Things I’ve Done

Will Stanier lives in Tucson, where he's an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arizona. Before Tucson, he lived in Athens, Georgia, where he co-hosted the reading series Dude, Where’s My Poetry? His chapbook, Fakie, is out byInvalid Press.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteOctober 27, 2017special feature, will stanier, poetry

Will Stanier: You Wouldn’t Believe the Things I’ve Done

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDecember 08, 2017Cameron Morse, poetry, special feature

Cameron Morse: In and Out of Total Eclipse

Cameron Morse taught and studied in China. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014, he is currently a third-year MFA candidate at UMKC and lives with his wife, Lili, in Blue Springs, Missouri. His poems have been or will be published in over 50 different magazines, including New Letters, pamplemousse, Fourth & Sycamore and TYPO. His first collection, Fall Risk, is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDecember 08, 2017Cameron Morse, poetry, special feature

Cameron Morse: In and Out of Total Eclipse

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 29, 2018Dimitri Reyes, poetry, special feature

Dimitri Reyes: I Told the Brother Gracias

Dimitri Reyes is a SortaRican PuertoVegan poet born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Through experience, his poetry becomes a meditation on veganism, well-being, Latinx culture, and growing up in the inner city. Dimitri is currently a candidate in the Rutgers- Newark MFA program and his poetry is published or forthcoming in Acentos Review, Naugatuck River Review, Radius, DrylandLit, and others.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 29, 2018Dimitri Reyes, poetry, special feature