Tagged: poetry

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were... Read more →

Threatened Women Debby Marsh in The Big Heat, remember her? How about Francine Hughes?... Read more →

Often the search within a poem’s blood and flesh happens slowly. I encourage... Read more →

Kay Tipsord’s  poem “The Affects of History” begins with the great concern of... Read more →

I kept coming back to Scott Laudati’s remarkable poem, “the santa fe trail.” The... Read more →

“C(h)ord,” by Carlos Gómez deals with the past haunting one’s moves through the... Read more →

“Dreamer” flattened me. Its deft use of language intrigued me, and its powerful... Read more →

To read “Material World”  by Anurak Saelaow is to re-live the first and greatest... Read more →

The 2018 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize -- our 6th annual poetry contest -- was our biggest and... Read more →

Cheyenne Avila, in her poem “In This Short Film, The Black Girl Becomes a Woman when... Read more →