Emily Dickinson instructs us to “tell all the truth but tell it slant”, but poets take her words one step further; they see the world slant. This fact shines through

Rochelle Hurt was featured at New Jersey’s Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival this year for good reason. Her compelling compilation, The J Girls: A Reality Show, is a quirky and witty

Stelios Mormoris’s poetry in The Oculus celebrates the intersections between life, emotions and nature. He writes, “How necessary it is / to lose yourself / in tangles” and takes that

The recent micro-chapbook, How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols takes inspiration from a selection of photographs by Diane Arbus. Each piece within the collection is an ekphrastic poem

Porkbelly Press’s recent offering from Nishat Ahmed, Brown Boy, can be read in a single sitting, but will take much longer to forget. This brief volume feels like a compilation