Tag Archives: Joseph Massey

Nicole Sealey – Week 26 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on June 27, 2020 by chapchart

At turns humorous and heartbreaking, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named explores in both formal and free verse what it means to die, which is to say, also, what it means to live. In this collection, Sealey displays an exquisite … Continue reading →

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Nicole Sealey – Week 25 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on June 20, 2020 by chapchart

At turns humorous and heartbreaking, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named explores in both formal and free verse what it means to die, which is to say, also, what it means to live. In this collection, Sealey displays an exquisite … Continue reading →

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Nicole Sealey – Week 24 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on June 13, 2020 by chapchart

At turns humorous and heartbreaking, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named explores in both formal and free verse what it means to die, which is to say, also, what it means to live. In this collection, Sealey displays … Continue reading →

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Thiahera Nurse – Week 23 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on June 6, 2020 by chapchart

Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil’ Kim rapping in the rain, the landscape … Continue reading →

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Thiahera Nurse – Week 22 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on May 30, 2020 by chapchart

Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil’ Kim rapping in the rain, the landscape … Continue reading →

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Thiahera Nurse – Week 21 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on May 23, 2020 by chapchart

Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil’ Kim rapping in the rain, the … Continue reading →

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Alison Fure – Week 20 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on May 16, 2020 by chapchart

Paths are a form of separation between us and modern life. They separate us from traffic. They flow like water to provide us with natural shortcuts and desire lines. They can allow for a continuity of gardens and be good … Continue reading →

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Alison Fure – Week 19 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on May 9, 2020 by chapchart

Paths are a form of separation between us and modern life. They separate us from traffic. They flow like water to provide us with natural shortcuts and desire lines. They can allow for a continuity of gardens and be good … Continue reading →

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Joseph Massey – Week 18 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on May 2, 2020 by chapchart

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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Yusef Komunyakaa – Week 17 Chapbook Chart 2020

Posted on April 25, 2020 by chapchart

The poems in Night Animals, by Yusef Komunyakaa, climb so deeply into the being of various beasts, from cricket to leopard to snowy owl, that we read them with an uncanny shiver of recognition. Without ever fully abandoning his human skin, … Continue reading →

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