Katie: I’ve read What Runs Over a few different ways now– straight through, with pauses, and at random, and it works every which way. The way you work with pace and temper creates this tension that holds a reader and is deeply unsettling throughout. The conversation between pieces, the movement through themes, the return to place and […]
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Katie: One of my favorite things about your work is how experimental and intentional you are with different forms. The visual aspect of your poems is always a striking element of the individual pieces, and the way they build on each other is so strong in your suites. How do you approach a piece? How does form happen […]
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I had the honor of sitting down with Shey Rivera at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island to discuss her work as a poet, artist, curator, and director. You can read or listen below! Katie Clark: So I’m just going to start off by reading a few lines of your bio: Shey is the […]
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Olivia Gatwood has been calling bullshit and educating through poetry for years now. She is a touring poet and educator, offering workshops on Title IX compliance, community building, and creative writing. Her first collection, New American Best Friend, was released in March. The work explores girlhood and memory, class and sexuality, place-making within and […]
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What makes you want to create? Many things inspire me. I am rather sensitive by nature. Breathing makes me want to create. Observing the world around me. I have a line in a poem that says “my reason for writing is that the universe is incessantly inspiring me.” It’s who I am. I’m a creator. […]
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I first encountered Ollie Schminkey’s work about two months into my first serious relationship when a friend sent me the link to Schminkey’s “Two Twin Beds.” In that poem I found an articulation of so much of what I had felt completely incapable of communicating. It became a sort of first step for me towards […]
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So I first read your work on Maudlin House and I’m curious: what is your relationship with the poems in that set (wonderfully titled “SOME *DRAKE VOICE* TINGS I WROTE AFTER I THOUGHT FOR A SECOND“)? i tend to write a lot about my anxiety, which, as i’m sure countless others can attest to, is […]
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So you have two chapbooks, rude girl is lonely girl! and Plastic Pajaros (both through pizza pi press) and I hear you have another one forthcoming with Button. What calls to you about chapbooks? And of course I have to ask: can you talk a little about the new collection? I like how small and concentrated […]
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Let me begin by saying I checked my mailbox three times a day while I was waiting for a package from Nostrovia! Press to arrive. In said package were the press’ three new chapbooks: “Make a Fist & Tongue the Knuckles,” “i can remember the meaning of every tarot card but i can’t remember what […]
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Joseph Parker Okay and Elijah Pearson are phenomena. Not only are they talented and inventive writers (they are the authors of “my phone is about to die and i hope it takes me with it” and “a nt” respectively), they are champions of independent and alternative artists. They are the parents of not only Spy […]
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The first time I heard one of Franny Choi’s poems was a beautiful accident. It was senior year and I was driving home from my last day of Spoken Word Club. In my sentimentality and premature nostalgia I made a YouTube queue of recent popular poems. When Franny Choi’s “Pussy Monster” came on, I was […]
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Megan Falley is in a word: sharp. Her poems have a sting to them that stays and her voice could silence a room. She is water running too hot in the best way. In addition to touring and teaching an online writing course called “Poems That Don’t Suck,” she is the author of three collections of […]
Read morei am watching you walk where your feet, smaller then, stumbled | muddied | blistered pre-bound, pre-ballet, danced differently. what if i knew where i was when you were still- child laying your legs’ down roadside, blonde hairs blooming
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Well, Vagabonds. To say it’s been quite the year would be an understatement, but here we are. We re-launched. We’ve been blogging/reviewing/interviewing. We started a newsletter. We keep receiving incredible poetry/nonfiction/art from lovely writers and artists to publish. In the middle of all that, we’re reading, and then reading some more. Below, you’ll find some […]
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MEETINGS AND ENDINGS by MELINDA ROY FEEDBACK by MICHAEL FISCHER TFW HE’S DIRT by SARAH DAUER VOICEMAILS I LEFT MYSELF by ELISA LUNA-ADY MUNG BEAN CHILD by MINYING HUANG DEMOCRACY, OR THE NIGHT OUR WORLD ENDED by NOOSHIN GHANBARI VAN GOGH AND VARSITY BASEBALL by SARA BARAC UPPER LAKE by SARAH DAUER BASEBALL FIELDS by […]
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BLACK HOODIE, WOLFBOY, HEARTACHE by LOGAN FEBRUARY MOOD: ANXIOUS by DANIELLE CORCIONE THE COMING AND GOING OF STRANGERS by B. BASSETT GOTH GOSPEL by JORDAN HOXSIE NORTHWEST PASSAGE by NATASHA BURGE SAND CRAWLERS PT. 1 by DANI PLANER MOON, GRANT ME STRENGTH by ERIN MCINTOSH JUST KEEP DOING YOUR POETRY by JEREMY BOYD A ROOM […]
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SOFT by VICTORIA BUTLER FAMILIA/FAMILY by EUGENIA VELA ENTOMOLOGY by IAN HILL DUST BOWL by STEVEN CHUNG HOLY FEVER by KEITH CASTILLO BLUE SHIRT MAN by URVI KUMBHAT ACE OF CUPS by ALINA PLESKOVA THE STAIRCASE AND WHAT IT DID by KATIE CLARK THE HONEY BADGER by MOLLY HARRIS BUT I AM NOT TOBY by […]
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Management and Genre Editors Alana King, Editor-in-Chief After earning a B.A. in English from Texas State University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Memphis, ALANA KING is currently working on a Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work has been published in querencia literary magazine, […]
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