FACTS ABOUT XANTHIPPE The facts about Xanthippe are scant: her name, her marriage. Her husband’s words are only reported by others, so, really, we can’t be sure of much. Plato’s…
Category: Poetry & Poetics
For our third volume, Lemon Hound 3.0 responds to this transformative moment in our literary community by publishing work that intends to smash, upend, rally against, dream of, reclaim, and…
Disastrous Confidence: Call for work Off The Page March 15-17 Call for Submissions: Disastrous Confidence, Friday March 16th 4-6 Finding ourselves in the maw of the University, we at Off the…
Andy McGuire’s “Pool” advances an end rhyme all the way to the end of the diving board at knifepoint. Pool whirligigs across the page, traveling from New York to the…
Queer Grace No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in…
Ones Who Got Away With It I still fantasize I can do something about it. That girl in the outpatient-care facility for teenagers confided to me that she sneaked out…
Today is stunning. —Renee Gladman For our third volume, Lemon Hound 3.0 responds to this transformative moment in our literary community by calling for work that intends to smash, upend,…
This week’s poem of the week is from our own archives. We posted this in April, 2013. It’s made of reviews of women’s work. It’s still relevant. Also see Zoe’s…
ALLER/RETOUR Day recedes to darkness Day seen through the veil of night Translucent grey film cast between daylight and dark dissolving sky to lavender to mauve to white until night…
Erin Wunker: I love Anne Boyer’s poem “What Resembles The Grave But Isn’t.” I love its repetition. I love how each sentence hits the mind with the determination of someone…
Come the Revolution Come the revolution / we will the revolution / we will return to the revolution / return to the sensuous body of language / come the revolution…