Land Line
“A man is licking my house. / An ordinary man. / Do I need to do something about it.”
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Poetry We Admire: Rejections
With last month’s #shareyourrejection trend on Twitter, we set out to collect some of the best, most recent work centering on the theme of rejection.
Night Windows 1928 & Silbers Pharmacy
“A perfect place for Hopper to window // shop, then move on, never to enter, never / to seek out Silber or his ghostly, gassy patrons.”
Becoming Poet: Kim Addonizio
“Trust the process. It’s okay not to write for a while, but don’t let that plant die for lack of water. If you want to be a writer, you have to keep that baby alive at all costs.”
Deadlines for September: Magazines
We’ve got to be thankful to live in a world which offers so many opportunities for poets to get their work out there. Here are five presses and awards to submit your chapbooks to this month.
Ohio Cento & How To Preserve a Fistful of the Neighbor’s Tulips
By Maggie Smith
“Your body, it is yours to leave behind, // and afterward, the moon stops looking like a moon, / unpolished for months, tarnished as flatware.”
Lottery & Deciding When Enough is Enough
“She tells me her birds have come to visit her again today. / One pecked and chirped at the window where she sat. / It’s your brother, she says. I don’t disagree.”
Community Feedback — Still Life of Central Valley with X-Files Rerun by torrin a. greathouse
Community Feedback is our recurring column that provides an opportunity for our audience to get some quick, free …