George Murray: Whiteout

George Murray: Whiteout

George Murray’s Whiteout is a book about those moments when life’s curve balls, whether pivotal or minor, make you reconsider the decisions you’ve made, and where they have led you:…

D.A. Powell: Three Poems

D.A. Powell: Three Poems

To see the next poem click on the poem. D. A. Powell’s books include Cocktails and Chronic, both finalists for the Publishing Triangle and National Book Critics Circle Awards. His…

Don Share: Four Poems

Don Share: Four Poems

  Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine.  His books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), Seneca in English (Penguin Classics), and most recently a new book of…

Ange Mlinko: Polymer Sonnets

Ange Mlinko: Polymer Sonnets

Ange Mlinko’s poetry collections include Starred Wire and Shoulder Season, both available from Coffee House Press. Her forthcoming book, Marvelous Things Overheard, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux…

Mathew Henderson: Migrant

Mathew Henderson: Migrant

Mathew Henderson is a recent graduate of the University of Guelph’s MFA program. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he now lives in Toronto, writes about the prairies and teaches at…

What Are You Working On, Jonathan Ball?

What Are You Working On, Jonathan Ball?

The following excerpts are from Jonathan Ball’s work-in-progress, The Politics of Knives. from “PSYCHO” But mother, we like her. She skins so beautiful, she showers for us clean. from “IN…

Erin Moure: the unmemntioable

Erin Moure: the unmemntioable

Erín Moure is a translator from French, Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese and the author of fourteen books of poetry. She has received the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial…

Tracie: Invisible [wo]Man on a Station in the Metro

Tracie: Invisible [wo]Man on a Station in the Metro

Invisible [wo]Man on a Station in the Metro I’m Specter — between underground stations. I used to know them a little and they knew me. I was eating with them…

Emma Healey: Two Poems

Emma Healey: Two Poems

wellbutrin say bupropion no fair enough say you’ll chew through this huge field of sunflowers better slur well into swooning the requisite great to say sing if we’ll let you…

Dorothea Lasky: Three Poems

Dorothea Lasky: Three Poems

PEOPLE DO REALLY BAD THINGS People do really bad things But I don’t pay attention to most of them I knew that Alex was my real friend When he told…

Jen Benka: Poemgraphs

Jen Benka: Poemgraphs

SQ: I love these, Jen. I’m amazed at how different they are, given the sameness of the type, the basic poem, as a visual from this distance. Can you tell…

Kathryn Mockler: Three Poems

Kathryn Mockler: Three Poems

MALICE The pot-bellied pigs were racing hard—only they weren’t pigs in the animal sense, they were cops—really really large cops who were racing bottle caps on the backs of stray…