Special Featurerbdcarleen tibbets, poetry, special feature

Carleen Tibbetts: This Has Very Little To Do With Saving

Special Featurerbdcarleen tibbets, poetry, special feature
Carleen Tibbetts: This Has Very Little To Do With Saving
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you holy buyer

intel tells us you

are wedded to cadence

just a gluey jewelry

box ballerina

enlaced & imperial jellied

spinning to slowchimed

disappearium

wrest from your FAQ engine

the exothermic (de)vices

we are felled things tenderly

defeating one another

this has very little to do

with saving


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it’s the Holocene so

we’re blissed out on

funny ha ha’s & spectrality

billboard junkies the

analog logos

may pass undetected

in the sloppy progression

of the hoard

looky-loo into the

lunar grit of all this

winsome frailty

closure’s a sensual fable

ceaseless beatific ghost

thank you for your order
 

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safe in your plastic

LCD glowmouth

of euthanized visas

the lord maketh you

to candle & coddle

your future houses

you’ve exceeded

the storage limit

sweet pulsating metastases

of blood’s nyloned preciseness

humblebodied animals

die in private thus

Carleen Tibbetts is the author of several chapbooks, most recently “to exosk(elle), the last sugar” (Zoo Cake Press, 2015) and with Isobel O’Hare, coedits the experimental journal, Dream Pop. Recent work has appeared in TAGVVERK, DREGINALD, The Offending Adam, Deluge, Reality Beach, and jubilat, among others. 
 

Special FeaturerbdCatherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry

Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything

Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of the chapbooks Maria Sings (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press).  Recent poems have appeared in Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, MiPOesias, and elsewhere.  A graduate of NYU’s MFA program in Creative Writing-Poetry, Catherine is cofounder and curator of the SWWIM reading series.  She lives in Miami Beach with her husband, two sons, and daughter.

Special FeaturerbdCatherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry
Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything
Special FeaturerbdPhilip Schaefer, special feature, poetry

Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness

Philip Schaefer’s first collection of poems Bad Summon won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press and will be released Summer 2017. He is the author of three chapbooks, two of which were co-written with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry and has work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Thrush Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Bat City Review, The Adroit Journal, Baltimore Review, and Passages North among others. He tends bar in Missoula, MT.

Special FeaturerbdPhilip Schaefer, special feature, poetry
Philip Schaefer: Everyone Else’s Darkness