"Opium and Ambergris" by Colin Dekeersgieter
"I find enjambment most compelling when it’s a means to shock, and the subversion or undercutting you mention. I mean shock as a kind of..."
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"TRANZ" by Spencer Williams
"The mother figure is, at once, my literal birth mother, my adoptive mother, and a nebulous origin point..."
A Secret Third Thing: Rachelle Toarmino and Lucy Wainger
"It’s winter-spring. A blue, sunny chill. Sleep and hyacinth. Today I met with a friend with whom I have an ongoing creative..."
Cynthia Cruz
"The space between waking and dreaming presents a brief opening of possibility and is the same space we enter and move through in..."
Stay in the Silence: A Conversation with Lara Mimosa Montes
"I first read Lara Mimosa Montes' THRESHOLES while the forest around me burned. Obscured by fire and smoke, I imagined the landscape..."
"Intimacies, Received" by Taneum Bambrick
"parses the language and acts of love and sex, trauma and violence, with the stark, plainspoken language of a desert, seared..."
"Intimacies in Borrowed Light" by Darius Stewart
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "These poems pulse with ardor, expectation, and the possibility of touch’s physical and affective potential."
"A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line" by Vi Khi Nao
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "organizes itself in four sections, Shorts, Shirts, Skorts, and Skirts, where the body becomes cloth or flame..."
"Fieldglass" by Catherine Pond
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "I read Catherine Pond’s Fieldglass three months after my last heartbreak."
"Fish Carcass" by Vi Khi Nao
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Vi Khi Nao’s sixteenth book Fish Carcass (2022) is a poetic Petri dish of lived experience."
"Refusenik" by Lynn Melnick
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "I don’t remember the first touch or the first comment when I was a girl that conjured me as a woman."
"Slim Confessions" by Sarah Minor
Hannah Bonner | RE:VIEW | "Here’s a slim confession: I have asked the last two men I loved to spit in my mouth, and neither one obliged."
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