Year: 2019
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It’s Summer and the Staff is Changing
As we dive deep into production for our summer issue, which will be out July 1, we also say goodbye to our assistant editor and social media manager Josh Colwell. We were lucky to have Josh work with us for the past year-and-a-half, grateful for his contributions and point of view as we continued shaping…
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Book Review – Arclight by John Biscello
Arclight, by poet John Biscello, is an intriguing book brimming with possibilities. The book is divided into six diverse sections that carry themes through each section and tie them together with spirituality and attention to the relationships between people and creator, people and others, people and self. I enjoyed the mix of short little poems…
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Looking for a Few Good Revision Tips?
Today’s blog post is brought to you by our Assistant Editor, Joshua Colwell. You’ve just written a poem. It might be the best poem you’ve ever written. It has imagery, voice, theme, all the right line breaks. You might think you don’t need to revise, but here are some tips on what to do before…
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Blackbird: Poems by Laura Grace Weldon – A Review
Blackbird: Poems by Laura Grace Weldon (West Hartford, CT: Grayson Books, 2019) $15.95 The first time I read Laura Grace Weldon’s latest book of poems, Blackbird, I gulped it down all at once like a starved reader. I kept finding poems to fall in love with, lines that made me say, oh, wow, me too.…
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Poets Read: Oonah V Joslin
We are pleased to offer our Poets Read series in honor of National Poetry Month 2019 and will run it throughout the month of April. Every day in April, our website and our YouTube channel will feature the voice of a poet whose work has appeared in our pages over the past year. On Sundays,…
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Poets Read: Ogwigi Ehi-kowochio Blessing
We are pleased to offer our Poets Read series in honor of National Poetry Month 2019 and will run it throughout the month of April. Every day in April, our website and our YouTube channel will feature the voice of a poet whose work has appeared in our pages over the past year. On Sundays,…
