Poetry Suite by Emily O’Neill
“curled together
like pages of a book fallen into the bath—they can’t read us”
Poetry Suite by Jeanann Verlee
“Me, a rusted hammer. Me, a sweet & lovely
disaster. How much beautiful must I kill?”
How I Hugged a Spaceman by Joseph Blair
“Spiritualized would pull Ladies and Gentlemen out of retirement”
Poetry Report: Fourth of July is Weird
“Exploding Lightning
Dragon Penis Rainbow or something”
Pink Mountaintops in Berlin by Matt Carter
“this was stripped down rock and roll, lean and ready for new mobility”
Poetry Suite by Amye Archer
“Because I never said yes
and I never said no-
I simply stayed suspended in that sound”
Poetry Suite by Gala Mukomolova
“The back of a truck one woman starts Black sky too blurred for stars”
Sound Words: Does Not Sleep On Mac Demarco's Salad Days
“Waking woozily somewhere wholly foreign”
Songs of the Week #22- Editors Pick
“grass hills, sun-filled squinty eyes, general lethargy and ease”
Sound Words: Sky Ferreira's Sweet Soft Kiss Off
“Eyes, stuck in perma-popped-bubblegum marvel”
Poetry Suite by Nora Brooks
“I had visions of long algae strands licking my ankles and sucking me down”
Less River, More Rust by Brian S. Ellis
“that fragile sense of universe that makes reading the poems feel like an event”
Poetry Report: Anniversary of Boston Marathon
“A poem could be written about a new mass shooting every week”
Lessons on Love and Cicadas with Hearts & Tigers
“put a cicada in your ear, and you could die from it”
Poetry Report: Dawn Breaks
“In Japan, hairline fractures appear
on the wings of Boeing Dreamliners”