Monthly Archives: September 2014

SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: RESURRECTION PARTY

From RESURRECTION PARTY By Michalle Gould: SELF-PORTRAIT AS A SERIES OF PREPARATORY STUDIES FOR A NUDE BY MATISSE The breasts hang low like fruit hoping to be picked yet still on the branch, While the body largely reclines, a letter … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JEN CAMPBELL

Vaginaland By Jen Campbell “Vaginaland” was previously published in English Pen “Poems for Pussy Riot” and appears here today with permission from the poet. Jen Campbell is an award-winning poet and short story writer. She’s also the author of the … Continue reading

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Gordon Massman: An Interview and Four Poems

Gordon Massman is the author, mostly recently, of the companion volumes Death and Love, both out from NYQ Books this year. His work has appeared in Antioch Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, The Literary Review, and RATTLE, … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ALLIE MARINI BATTS

By Allie Marini Batts: breeding, trumpet flowers out of the dead ash a cautious unfurling, petals, these fragile fingers, extended through layers of silt and salt, the battle-blown lands where once a city stood. these vines, they labor furiously, expanding … Continue reading

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: PAPER COTTON LEATHER

From PAPER COTTON LEATHER By Jenny Sadre-Orafai: RETRACT OR RECANT This accordion love expands or exhales, retracts or recants. It is only as much as we allow. It squeezes out warnings of cardboard walls closing in. Its wheezing fills a … Continue reading

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Daniela Olszewska: A Micro-Interview and Three Poems

Okla Elliott: What difficulties did you encounter writing a book entirely centered around one character? Daniela Olszewska: I started making the poems that became Citizen J while I was an undergraduate at Columbia College Chicago (so, somewhere around 2005). Originally, … Continue reading

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Rebekah Just When the Drought Was Ending by Justin Hamm

Rebekah Just When the Drought Was Ending by Justin Hamm But the best thing about Rebekah was the way she floated always beneath the scent of woodburn and dusty Middle America, her keen ranch-queen convictions slicing deep and deeper into … Continue reading

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