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Thiahera Nurse – Week 22 Chapbook Chart 2020
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
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
Yusef Komunyakaa – Week 17 Chapbook Chart 2020
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
Yusef Komunyakaa – Week 16 Chapbook Chart 2020
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 … Continue reading
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
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
Seth Seong – Week 13 Chapbook Chart 2020
City, Ruby is a chapbook with an existential look inside the modern city persona – a life affected by ever-accelerating technology and the inhumane perception against the poor and working. But under it all, there are moments of pure human connection … Continue reading
Seth Seong – Week 12 Chapbook Chart 2020
City, Ruby is a chapbook with an existential look inside the modern city persona – a life affected by ever-accelerating technology and the inhumane perception against the poor and working. But under it all, there are moments of pure human connection … Continue reading
Caroline Furr – Week 11 Chapbook Chart 2020
Caroline Furr studied for a Master of Arts degree in sculpture from California State University and her art has since graced Texas, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Philadelphia. http://carolinefurr.com/ Foreigners have the hungriest of senses. Arriving somewhere new there is the immediate … Continue reading
William Meikle – Week 5 Chapbook Chart 2020
THREE CREATURE FEATURES (Into the Valley of Death/Home From the Sea/A Rock and a Hard Place) stems from a fascination with the early film viewings of the author. William Meikle couldn’t have been more than seven or eight when he went … Continue reading
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