Thirty years ago, yet I am still there in my gas mask and lost in the desert Thirty years ago, men and women dropped everything to go to war, Juan
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
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