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A Bridge Across Time: NYC's Brooklyn Bridge turns 141

Sarah Hajkowski

Jun 135 min read

A Bridge Across Time: NYC's Brooklyn Bridge turns 141

NYC's Brooklyn Bridge is 141 years old, and has lived an impressive literary life.

devonfwebb

Apr 96 min read

Writing the Dark Out With john compton

Devon Webb interviews poet john compton ahead of his latest chapbook release, 'melancholy arcadia'

Review: Andrea Jurjević Brings Us New Voices and Narratives in “In Another Country”

Tomas Maldonado

Mar 225 min read

Review: Andrea Jurjević Brings Us New Voices and Narratives in “In Another Country”

Explore the enchanting world of Andrea Jurjević's "In Another Country" as Tomas Maldonado takes us on a journey through voice and narrative

Review: Carolyn Hembree Rings in the New Year ‘For Today’

Tomas Maldonado

Feb 55 min read

Review: Carolyn Hembree Rings in the New Year ‘For Today’

Discover the transformative power of Carolyn Hembree's poetry collection 'For Today'. Dive into an immersive review by Tomas Maldonado

Liam Jacobson's Anti-Gentrification of Poetry

devonfwebb

Dec 9, 20235 min read

Liam Jacobson's Anti-Gentrification of Poetry

Devon Webb interviews Aotearoa poet Liam Jacobson about their debut collection, 'Neither'.

Louise Glück's Quiet Affirmations of Life

Anwesha Dutta

Nov 18, 20235 min read

Louise Glück's Quiet Affirmations of Life

About Glück's quiet affirmations of life.

Chapbook review: Keith Inman’s 'Layers of Limestone' in an Age of Urban Sprawl

Terry Trowbridge

Nov 3, 20238 min read

Chapbook review: Keith Inman’s 'Layers of Limestone' in an Age of Urban Sprawl

A review of Keith Inman's 'Layers of Limestone', a chapbook of 9 poems published by Grey Borders Books.

devonfwebb

Oct 24, 20232 min read

WEAPONISED INCOMPETENCE

If voting changed anything they would abolish it / if this system was liberating we wouldn’t uphold it

Chapbook Review: Jasmin Gui’s 'boke' and Canadian Futures

Terry Trowbridge

Oct 18, 20236 min read

Chapbook Review: Jasmin Gui’s 'boke' and Canadian Futures

A review of Jasmine Gui's chapbook, 'boke'.

Chapbook Review: James Lindsay’s The Lake

Terry Trowbridge

Oct 10, 20233 min read

Chapbook Review: James Lindsay’s The Lake

A review of James Lindsay’s chapbook The Lake, a collection of 12 poems that fit together.

Frank Njugi on Exploring Nostalgia and Multilingualism in Risto Za Maswara

Amanda Nechesa

Sep 17, 20235 min read

Frank Njugi on Exploring Nostalgia and Multilingualism in Risto Za Maswara

Interview with journalist, poet and writer, Frank Njugi on his first micro chapbook, Risto Za Maswara.

Steph Ox on Poetry, Children's Books, and Writing through a Personal Lens

Dea Fejzullahu

Sep 16, 20233 min read

Steph Ox on Poetry, Children's Books, and Writing through a Personal Lens

An interview with Steph Ox, a poet-writer, research assistant, and a bestselling children's book author from Philadelphia.

eratomag

Sep 6, 20232 min read

Psyche

Psyche features key pieces of the writer's identity: his connection to Greece and to a past, being an LGBTQIA immigrant, the beauty and...

eratomag

Sep 5, 20231 min read

Pumilus

Pumilus is a poem by Bunganí Zungu and features in the third issue of Erato Magazine, Hunger. It explores longing and the feeling of loss.

eratomag

Sep 2, 20231 min read

Cookbook

How does one attain the thing that will end up wrecking them, should it be attained?

eratomag

Sep 1, 20231 min read

My Teeth Tear Into the Plum

by Lynn M. Finger --skin purple, soft, smells of river and joining, it surrenders, like other quiescent things. How many are yielding...

Thomas Farr

Jul 17, 20231 min read

Mara River Crossing

The poem details a wildebeest crossing of the Mara River and highlights the powerful brutality of the natural world and its appetites.

Scott Thomas Outlar

Jul 15, 20232 min read

Apples & Owls at Midnight (Part 7)

This poem is part of a series that began as an attempt to turn citrus and sugar into art but gradually spread to cover other topics of food.

Bob King

Jul 14, 202318 min read

Global Flavor Riot

Global Flavor Riot is a lengthy part postmodern-surrealist inspired by King's associative writing and part research.

Shrief Fadl

Jul 14, 20232 min read

Ends Meat

CW: ED Ends Meat explores the idea of hunger in a general sense, and a personal sense from someone struggling with an eating disorder.

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