Poetry
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Peter Mishler
15 March 2019 on Blog, Poetry, The Writer's Hot SeatPeter Mishler is the author of Fludde (Sarabande, 2018), a book of poems selected for the Kathryn A. Morton prize in poetry by Dean Young, who said, “Fludde makes us feel,...
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“Apricots” by Lucie Berjoan
08 March 2019 on PoetryThis morning is wrapped in a sweatshirt, raw and restless it filters through my jacket at the bus stop. Without you here it’s easier to get out of bed. I...
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“Signs You May Have an Eating Disorder” by Barbara Daniels
15 February 2019 on PoetryWhite clay you chew through before you get back to your car. Hair. Dice that clatter across a long table. Paper. Paint chips. Drywall. Dirt. Burnt matches. An herb you...
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How We Select Poems to Publish
15 February 2019 on Blog, PoetryIn order to shed light on one aspect of the submission process, the Barnstorm poetry team answers the question, “How do you select poems for possible publication?” Morgan: When looking...
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“A Hive for Water” by Fred Dale
01 February 2019 on Blog, PoetryA sealed, clear bag of water hung above the door, dusk’s sleepy light palmed in its many mirrored hands. The barman said it kept the bees away, proving, at the...
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The Score for a Voice
14 December 2018 on Poetry, Storystorm“Prosody is not much taught or talked about, since it was a form of institutional terrorism in the previous, metrical orthodoxy.” Robert Haas, Listening and Making Prosody is a spooky...
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“The Heart” by Arlene Naganawa
30 November 2018 on Blog, PoetryA door opened into her body, a cavern, pinpricks like electric wasps. Her fingers dimmed like fireflies drained of light. So this is someone’s work, she thought, the dimpled spider...
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Presence in Poetry
23 November 2018 on Poetry, StorystormI write poetry to get weird. I want to be the weirdest me there is and then push that marker; I want to float, magnanimous as a blimp; to pop...
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“Digging” by Douglas Cole
09 November 2018 on PoetryI am digging my way through plateau clay pounding with an iron bar and pic axe lifting shovelfuls of rattling rock and pebble earth alone out here except for Tony...
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“The Lake, the House, the Bus” by Laurinda Lind
26 October 2018 on Blog, PoetryWater no, spirit no, water in dreams, water like Lake Ontario, water like mud always spraying stones— a dream about us. In the house, lake under us, big house made...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Ada Limón
12 October 2018 on Blog, PoetryAda Limón, winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize in 2006 and finalist for the National Book Award in 2015, has come out with her new collection The Carrying, this past August....
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“Revenant” by Forrest Rapier
05 October 2018 on Poetrynight before last together we made azalea-shape bite-mark ornaments on our weak thighs yesterday lacewing flies hummed shaky songs across the buzzing micro kitchen countertop scatter my cup...
