Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 03, 2017Kristen Brida, special feature, poetry

Kristen Brida: Tinder Bio Sonnet

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 03, 2017Kristen Brida, special feature, poetry

Tinder Bio Sonnet

I like to watch & be watched, so put an exclamation
-shaped mirror at your chest, and baby let’s make do!
Sometimes, I stick my thumb in between vertebrae
to convince myself the spine is made w/ broken
crab legs, do you want to see? Sometimes I want you
to tell me I look like Emily Dickinson
& I want to fight you back on it. I’m all jazz hands
all foodie all food all mouth all paw all moonboots no neon some view
You’re all about the < >, the sweetbread, the slip n slide of a tooth

Put the mirror around your neck, & I will take you
we’ll go get some coffee maybe go buy a cake,
put some icing on my face :: I’ll swallow the mirror whole, just for the chase

Kristen Brida's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, New Delta Review, Hobart, Whiskey Island, DUM DUM Zine, and elsewhere. She is currently the Editor in Chief of So to Speak, a feminist literary journal. She is a poetry MFA candidate at George Mason University.

Joanna Valente

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteAugust 21, 2017Ashley Mares, special feature, poetry

Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands

Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press) A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press), and Killer (Ghost City Press, forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, Prelude, PANK, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com and follow her @ash_mares2.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteAugust 21, 2017Ashley Mares, special feature, poetry

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 18, 2018Joshua Lindenbaum, poetry, special feature

Joshua Lindenbaum: Google Search

Joshua Lindenbaum’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in HEArt Online, Breadcrumbs, West Texas Literary Review, Typishly, Five2One Magazine, Silhouette Press, Mistake House, The Bangalore Review, 3Elements Review, and several other publications. He’s currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at Binghamton University and will become a full-time professor despite a dismal job market. The pen has been his companion for quite some time, but it’s still waiting for him “to put a ring on it.”

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 18, 2018Joshua Lindenbaum, poetry, special feature

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteOctober 08, 2018Kristen Bulger, poetry, special feature

Kristen Bulger: Triptych of the Body

Kristen Bulger is a poet from New Hampshire and currently lives in Boston, MA. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in Salamander, Superstition Review, Houseguest, and elsewhere.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteOctober 08, 2018Kristen Bulger, poetry, special feature

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDecember 12, 2018Andy Powell, poetry, special feature

Andy Powell: Quiet Again

Andy Powell is a Teaching Artist for DreamYard in the Bronx, has poems out or forthcoming with Winter Tangerine Review, Voicemail Poems, Bad Pony Mag, elsewhere, is a reader for Adroit Journal, and is a 2018 fellow to The Poetry Foundation & Crescendo Literary's Poetry Incubator.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDecember 12, 2018Andy Powell, poetry, special feature

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 10, 2019Jade Riordan, poetry, special feature

Jade Riordan: I Am the Magician

Jade Riordan lives in northern Canada; she’s probably cold right now. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, Outrageous Fortune, Room, 3Elements Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is a member of Bywords' selection committee.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJanuary 10, 2019Jade Riordan, poetry, special feature