Anodyne by Khadijah Queen
Very excited that Khadijah Queen will be a 2025 Visiting Writer at Longleaf Writers Conference this year. I am reading her poetry collection, Anodyne (Tin House Books, 2020). "In the event of an apocalypse, be ready to die," the opening poem in the collection, proves prescient for today's reader: "But do also ... Read More
We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik
Enjoying "Eros and Sorrow" in Patrycja Humienik's poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes (Tin House): "I'm crying after sex. Kettle's going off / and off—the arrows in that / sound could puncture even steel. / I pour slowly, opening a curtain / in the back of mind...." ... Read More
Writing Poetry
"Poetry is one of the three major genres of imaginative literature, which has its origins in music and oral performance and is characterized by controlled patterns of rhythm and syntax (often using meter and rhyme); compression and compactness and an allowance for ambiguity; a particularly concentrated emphasis on the sensual, ... Read More
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 | Recommended by Nicole Hylton
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton is a big inspiration for my poetry. As a former professor at my alma mater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, I've heard a lot about Lucille Clifton these past four years, and for good reason. I admire ... Read More
INTERVIEW | Annelyse Gelman
Movement. Metaphor. Sound. Meaning. Poet Annelyse Gelman’s collection, Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone, addresses and implements all of these things. No—challenges all of these things. No, wait—they wrestle, dance, embrace and question all of these things. They do all of that and more. In other words, Gelman’s ... Read More
EVENTS | The New York City Poetry Festival
JULY 26TH, 11AM THE NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL GOVERNOR'S ISLAND, NYC The Rue De Fleurus Salon & Reading Series will present readings by: Sarah Bridgins is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Sink Review, InDigest, Monkeybicycle, Two Serious Ladies, Thrush, and Bone Bouquet among other ... Read More
INTERVIEW | Sarah Arvio
Sarah Arvio's night thoughts is a unique memoir told through poetry and notes in order to come to terms with past crises. The poetry makes tangible dreams Arvio had about past trauma, and in the notes section she discovers the meaning of those dreams. Not only is her poetry stunning, but the ... Read More
Poetry Was Everywhere
In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke called childhood as “that precious, kingly possession, that treasure house of memories.” The God of Knickknacks draws on my childhood. My childhood gave me the gift of being able to write poetry, but not because I came from a family who ... Read More
Moon Milk Review Issue 9 Coming Soon…
Moon Milk Review's Issue 9 will release on Monday, October 11th. Work from Edgar Oliver, Annam Manthiram, Laura Ellen Scott, John Minichillo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vincent Price! ... Read More
From We Take Me Apart (A Novella)
In a different version it was not a pea but a cocoa bean/you came to us in the night/soaked in cold/trembling with fatigue... Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel, We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious Press, 2009), and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative (Flatmancrooked, 2010). She curates Walking ... Read More