Special Featurerbdbunkong tuon, poetry, special feature

Bunkong Tuon: What Is Not Fluid

Special Featurerbdbunkong tuon, poetry, special feature
Bunkong Tuon: What Is Not Fluid
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My Daughter’s Toy Puppy

 

Sometimes I call Rosie a “he.”

Other times Rosie is a “she.”
 

There’s no rhyme or reason

to its gender designation.

 

All is arbitrary,
dictated by exhaustion.

 

But what is not fluid
is the proximity of Rosie
 

to our daughter.

 

No matter how far away,
we must drive back home

 

to retrieve the stuffed puppy
I buried under a milk-stained blanket.

Bunkong Tuon is the author of Gruel (2015) and And So I Was Blessed (2017), both poetry collections published by NYQ Books, and a regular contributor to Cultural Weekly. He is also an associate professor of English and Asian Studies at Union College, in Schenectady, NY.

Special FeaturerbdGary Charles Wilkens, special feature, poetry

Gary Charles Wilkens: Edit the Sad Parts

Gary Charles Wilkens’ first book, The Red Light Was My Mind, won the 2006 Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize. His manuscript Fayetteville was a Finalist in the 2014 Moon City Review Poetry Contest. His poems have appeared more than 70 journals and anthologies, including The Texas Review, Moon City Review, Passages North, the Adirondack Review, James Dickey Review, Melancholy Hyperbole, and Midwest Quarterly. His fiction has appeared in Drunk Monkeys, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and Pale Ghosts Magazine. His day job is Associate Professor of English at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Special FeaturerbdGary Charles Wilkens, special feature, poetry
Gary Charles Wilkens: Edit the Sad Parts
Special FeaturerbdAdam Hughes, poetry, special feature

Adam Hughes: Discovery Channel

Adam Hughes is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently Allow the Stars to Catch Me When I Rise (Salmon Poetry, 2017) and Deep Cries Out to Deep(Aldrich Press, 2017). Born and raised in Central Ohio, he now resides in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains where he is pursuing an MFA at Randolph College. Should you google him, he is not the Adam Hughes who draws near-pornographic depictions of female superheroes. This particular Adam Hughes cannot draw.


Special FeaturerbdAdam Hughes, poetry, special feature
Adam Hughes: Discovery Channel