Tag Archives: Jeffrey Thomas

Scott Cumming – Week 50 Chapbook Chart 2022

A Chapbook About Nothing eschews the thematic tightness of the form bringing you a veritable smorgasbord of poems re-examining pillars of pop culture to remembering the youthful existence of makeshift goal posts. There is murderous mayhem and matters that muddy the … Continue reading

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Noah Patterson – Week 23 Chapbook Chart 2021

Upon an Icy Peak. A treacherous, twisting path through the mountains of Helik Water. Weaving into icy caverns deep inside the mountain, and outside onto steep and treacherous cliff trails–it is one of the most dangerous routes for travel. It … Continue reading

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Noah Patterson – Week 21 Chapbook Chart 2021

Upon an Icy Peak. A treacherous, twisting path through the mountains of Helik Water. Weaving into icy caverns deep inside the mountain, and outside onto steep and treacherous cliff trails–it is one of the most dangerous routes for travel. It … Continue reading

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Jessica Helen Lopez – Week 39 Chapbook Chart 2020

Breathtakingly tender, playful, and generous one moment; sharp and unapologetically brutal the next, these poems by Lopez transport the reader into the complex landscape of feminine power with a dynamic but inarguable force. Honest to the marrow, Lopez never sugar … Continue reading

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Mary Ruefle – Week 36 Chapbook Chart 2020

“It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea,” Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, … Continue reading

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Jenny Xie – Week 29 Chapbook Chart 2020

Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct … Continue reading

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Mary Ruefle – Week 28 Chapbook Chart 2020

“It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea,” Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, … Continue reading

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Joseph Massey – Week 18 Chapbook Chart 2020

In his chapbook, Present Conditions, Joseph Massey writes that “the weather within / is the weather without.” His poems chronicle a difficult winter where the universe grows colder, his speaker taking all day to “filter out the debris of a … Continue reading

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Shellley Duffy – Week 15 Chapbook Chart 2020

A Breath I Cannot Take recounts a heartbreaking yet familiar story of the poet’s downward spiral into a deep pit of depression and anxiety. The triggers of domestic violence and family tragedies escalating into drug abuse and debt are not unique … Continue reading

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Jeffrey Thomas – Week 14 Chapbook Chart 2020

Three stories, originally published separately, brought together for the first time…to detail the summoning of a god-like entity from beyond space and time into the vulnerable realm of humans.  DRAWING NO. 8 – In the far-future colony of Punktown, inhabited … Continue reading

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