2016 National Poetry Series Winners Announced!
Congrats to William Brewer, Sasha Pimentel, Jeffrey Schultz, Sam Sax, and Chelsea Dingman for winning this year’s 2016 Open Competition! Read more here
2016
Bo Schwabacher
I will tie
up my hair
and stay sober
with the cries […]
Katie Hibner
When I strove for soldier poetics, I strove for canistered ghosts to fire down the shampoo aisle. […]
Let Me Get Carefree Unless It Means I Live In This Political Body And Everything Is Always On Fire Or How I Went To A Santigold Concert To Get Carefree Anyway
It’s a Sunday evening, unseasonably warm for April in Chicago, and I’m standing in line with my partner to see Santigold (read: to get my life). The tickets were $30, and before my edges were snatched by Beyonce and Rihanna, Santigold’s clap back and riot-like anthems amplified the kind of woman and artist I wanted to be. I needed to get away. […]
C Derick Varn
Against the sun, there nothing but glare the critical
essay writes itself blind spots the politics of young
alienated boys cheerleading an every day atrocity […]
Kimberly Ann Southwick
city why when I am with you are we always drinking when I like you better when we are not drinking is it you are you maybe always drinking because when someone is drinking I want to […]
Jeremy Casabella
Last October half the wind grew refrigerate.
We left the door open and a fog
wandered its condensate on our walls. […]
Nabila Lovelace
I want,
after waking to the news
that is always the news
& changing the Facebook
autoplay settings as to not
see the blood out
of where it is meant to be in
of the black / brown him / her / they, […]