the past few weeks (months? years?) have given many writers a time to reflect and respond. sometimes we don’t know what have inside of us until we are forced to be with ourselves, no distractions. not as easy at it sounds. we chose to focus on non-Covid-19 poetry with our poem of the day feature. with so many other presses and journals focusing on the pandemic, we felt a respite was needed, a place to find a moment of relief. we had the opportunity to promote the work of so many talented poets, both old friends and new (to us) voices. we hope to see them around here again. it was very popular, and we many do it again next year for national poetry month. no promises, but you never know.
a lot of exciting things have been happening behind the scenes, too. we are <this> close to finishing up “love notes you’ll never read” and getting it to the printer. i know there has been a lot of interest in this project, and our poets are very anxious to see the final book. thank you for your patience and excitement.
we are also working on the upcoming chapbook from Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton entitled “Rain Minnows [Notecards and Poems]” this post-strucuralist manuscript explores the interplay of meaning between words as he deconstructs the language. the poems within began as notecards, forcing the poet to observe the taut space of meaning without devolving into narrative. the reader will find new meaning every time they visit these rain minnows.
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