Category Archives: Poetry Special

Poetry Special – Five Poets (June 2018 / 18.2) Lines from an overheard phone conversation: “Sam Rasnake has written a few things. He’s published a few. Once he saw a whale swim past a wrecked steamer just off the Outer … Continue reading →

Poet Special: Works by Pamela Johnson Parker (August 2017 / 17.7) Pamela Johnson Parker ONE WORD: Murder The crows plot revenge: prepare; they’ll whisper         your fate in the rustlings of their onyx                 wings; in the verdigris and bruise-blue oil         slick … Continue reading →

Poet Special: Works by Kelly Cherry (May 2016 / 16.5) Kelly Cherry Guernica Picasso, oil on canvas, 1937. A communiqué, a newspaper perhaps. The beauty of the mural mandates close attention to detail. It is not God who’s in these … Continue reading →

Poetry Special – (December 2015 / 15.25) Artist, Richard Kostelanetz has individual entries on work appearing in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, and Postmodern Fiction, among other distinguished directories.   … Continue reading →

Poet Special: Works by Mark Magoon (June 2015 / 15.11) Mark Magoon Another Love Poem this world—not infinite, oddly though there are babies enough for them you should want to believe                      and for them all is so—be it then … Continue reading →