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Accidental Devotions, Kelli Russell Agodon
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Kelli Russell Agodon’s latest collection, Accidental Devotions, seeks to find meaning in a world lit by screens and haunted by ghosts—both real and digital. Blending humor with vulnerability, these poems embrace the beautiful chaos of our relationships, of aging and being human. Here, explorations of desire, technology, and spirituality ring out like birdsong through a chapel. Sharp and playful, Accidental Devotions is for the quiet rebels and devoted readers—for those who carry ashes to the beach, ask Alexa for guidance, keep Emily Dickinson’s book on the nightstand, or fall in love mid-sentence. With queer tenderness, and an ongoing devotion to desire, these poems make room for grief and joy, pleasure and struggle. The result: a dazzling, defiant field guide to staying human.
Kelli Russell Agodon is a poet, writer, editor, book designer, and co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. Her latest book, Dialogues with Rising Tides, was a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She is also an author of the bestselling The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, which she co-authored with Martha Silano. She was the winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award in poetry, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New England Review, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She is a co-director of Poets on the Coast, a writing retreat for women. Kelli is also an avid paddleboarder, mountain biker, and hiker who has a fondness for desserts, typewriters, and fedoras. She lives in a sleepy seaside town a ferry ride away from Seattle and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program.
One Moment, Luis Muñoz, Idra Novey (Tr), Garth Greenwell (Tr)
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Sweet, surreal, and haunting, these poems examine both the frictions and elusiveness that can occur between self and others. The slowing down of time, the gentle observation of sunlight like “golden cookies on the bedspread” as you lie next to a lover. The feeling of solitude rendering you as small and still as a garbanzo bean, yearning as much for water and light as to continue being left alone.
Luis Muñoz is a beloved and critically acclaimed Spanish poet and One Moment marks his American debut. The poems within are presented in their original Spanish and in English, translated by acclaimed writers and translators Idra Novey and Garth Greenwell.
Formally inventive, at turns playful and strange, One Moment moves a kaleidoscopic eye from friends to lovers, one place to another, one moment to the next, the finite to the infinite. These are poems that delight in all the senses, and in the movement of the world around us.
Luis Muñoz is the author of seven books of poetry, including Vecindad. He has received the Ciudad de Córdoba, Generación del 27, and Ojo Crítico prizes, among others. He divides his time between Madrid and Iowa City, where he directs the Spanish-language creative writing MFA program at the University of Iowa.
Idra Novey is the author of the poetry collection Soon and Wholly and the novel Take What You Need, named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023 and chosen as a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She’s translated the work of numerous authors, including Clarice Lispector, Manoel de Barros, and Garous Abdolmalekian.
Garth Greenwell is the author of Small Rain, which won the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
Veer, Cole Swensen
Publisher: Alice James Books
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
A few years ago, Swensen returned to her native California and found herself in a much closer relationship with trees, wind, and crows. Their insistent presence drew her into a new kind of active attention—thinking into things rather than about them and looking with things rather than at them. That shift in perspective underlies the difference between traditional nature poetry and contemporary eco-poetics, reshaping Swensen’s work into a practice of collaboration and participation. Veer is a defiantly optimistic book, committed to the astonishing beauty and intensity of the world, despite the contemporary political and industrial forces determined to dismantle it.
Veer is to be the first collection published under Alice James Books’ newly established Jean Valentine Series, which honors the work of mid-career women poets who are reshaping the landscape of contemporary poetry. Known for her cool, omniscient voice and formally innovative work, Swensen brings to Veer the clarity and precision of a poet at the height of her craft. Organized in three parts, Tic, Tac, and Tao, these poems often twist logic and toy with the absurd in an attempt to engage the things of the surrounding world without appropriating them—allowing each their place at the table, as it were, when humans are making decisions that will greatly affect them.
Cole Swensen is the author of 20 books of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), long-listed for the Griffin Prize, and Art in Time (Nightboat Books, 2021) and a volume of critical essays, Noise that Stays Noise (U. of Michigan Press, 2011). A former Guggenheim Fellow, she co-edited the Norton anthology American Hybrid. Her work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and twice for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She taught for ten years on the permanent faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and twelve years in the Literary Arts Department at Brown University. Also a translator of poetry and art criticism from French, she has won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation, the 2024 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association, and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Prize. She divides her time between France and the US.
Life Immediately, Lily Blacksell
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback
Lily Blacksell’s writing showcases the expansiveness of language, but also its failures. Communication builds up and breaks down, geese honk, hangovers linger in poems where observation is balanced with insouciance.
Born in London in 1993, Lily Blacksell grew up there and on the Isle of Wight. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets 2017 whilst living in the US. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and the Oxford Poetry Prize, and was longlisted for the 2024 National Poetry Competition. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, BOMB Magazine, Boston Review, Bath Magg, Magma, and elsewhere. She runs a poetry and music night called Canon Fodder which she hosts at The Social in London and at Glastonbury Festival. By day, and very often evening, Lily programmes events at The Conduit in Covent Garden, and has previously worked for Southbank Centre and the Royal Society of Literature.
Crowd Voltage, John McCullough
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback
Engaging with working-class and queer experiences, the poems move between solitude and togetherness, haunted by ghosts from history as they dream of unity and discover joy in deserted corners. To be common here is to share not only qualities but stories with many others – to be classed alongside people with similar origins and become connected also to what is commonplace in the world of animals and plants, days and tables. Sky and sea dominate as the speakers search for oneness and completion, confronted by vast silences and the shadow of Brighton’s collapsing West Pier.
John McCullough has published four previous collections; most recently, the Costa-shortlisted Reckless Paper Birds (2019), winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and Panic Response (2022), which included his long poem ‘Flowers of Sulphur’, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His first collection of poems The Frost Fairs (Salt, 2011) won the Polari First Book Prize.
John McCullough lives in Hove, England. His first collection of poems, The Frost Fairs, was published by Salt in 2011 and won the Polari First Book Prize. It was a Book of the Year in The Independent as well as a summer read in The Observer. His fourth collection, Panic Response (Penned in the Margins, 2022), was a Book of the Year for The Telegraph and one of The Times’ Notable New Poetry Books of 2022. The collection’s long poem, ‘Flower of Sulphur’, was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. John is a Senior Lecturer in creative writing at the University of Brighton as well as teaching on poetry for organisations including the Arvon Foundation and the online Creative Writing Programme.
Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems, Rita Ann Higgins
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback
This new book covers her collections from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024), in addition to new poems appearing here for the first time. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles. Defiantly mischievous, playfully subversive, this irreverent iconoclast has been achieving even wider popularity through her regular appearances on RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor Show: “Rita Ann Higgins is the people’s poet. She’s magic. She’s a one-off.”
Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway, where she still lives. She has published many books of poetry and prose, including Sunny Side Plucked (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) (1996), An Awful Racket (2001), Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems (2005), Ireland Is Changing Mother (2011) and Tongulish (2016) from Bloodaxe. Her 2026 Bloodaxe retrospective, Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems draws on all of these, plus her collections from Salmon Press. She is also a playwright, and her most recent plays. Her plays include The Plastic Bag (2008), The Empty Frame (2008) and The Colossal Longing of Julie Connors (2014). Her many awards include a Peadar O’Donnell Award in 1989, the Living Poets Society Award in 2021, and several Arts Council bursaries. She is a member of Aosdána.
distant water, Beth Piatote
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback
As a scholar of Native American literature and law, Beth Piatote focuses on the endangerment of Indigenous languages. As an activist, she moves against the current of English-language colonization, working to rescue and revitalize the language of her people. Language, she posits, is an expression of land, a means through which we can travel great distances.
distant water brings the reader into the language of our shared home, North America, revealing a sonic world and grammar governed by rivers, kinship, and ancestral knowledge. “In our homes and homelands,” she writes, “we share the language with the plants and animals and waters and rocks and sky.” Inventive and playful, these poems explore the sounds, structure, and wisdom of the Nez Perce language, illuminating its vitality and capacity to organize relationships to time and place. Braiding aural, linguistic, and spiritual ecologies, distant water conveys an understanding that to be in language is to be in place. To be at home.
Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce scholar, playwright, poet, and associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include the scholarly monograph, Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature and The Beadworkers: Stories, which was long-listed for the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her play, Antíkoni, had its world premiere with Native Voices in Los Angeles in November 2024. Her poems, scholarly essays, and short stories have appeared in multiple journals and anthologies, including American Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, World Literature Today, and PMLA. An enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Piatote is devoted to the study of her heritage language of Nez Perce and is an Indigenous language revitalization activist, living in Berkley, California.
The Stars That Fell, Gary Short
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
The Stars That Fell infuses poetry with a new meaning for modern Nevada and the American West. Using autobiographical details and testimony mixed with Nevada history and folklore, this poetry collection focuses on and includes the scars left by the mining industry, the military complex, and the treatment of Indigenous peoples to tell the story of the complex relationship between the people and the land.
Through his poems, Gary Short illuminates the humanity of the people of Nevada and the American West, specifically the rural communities that often get left out of the narrative. Focusing on family and the relationships between characters, he extends feelings of hope, solace, forgiveness, and even wisdom throughout this collection.
Gary Short is the author of three volumes of poetry and three chapbooks. His second book, Flying Over Sonny Liston, received the Western States Book Award. He has taught at a number of universities, including Old Dominion University, University of California, Davis, and the University of Mississippi, where he served as director of the MFA program. Among his honors are a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and several residencies at MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Arts. He lives in Panajachel, Guatemala.
Dad Era, Jordan Abel
Publisher: Coach House Books
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
This collection compels readers to ask what it means to share a heart with another human in a world on the precipice of destruction. Although Abel doesn’t have an answer and likely never will, he understands deeply that ‘the bond between a parent and child can sometimes be explained with words.’ Here – brilliant, hilarious, and loving – are those words.
Dad Era explores Jordan Abel’s role as a father to his daughter, Phoenix, and his relationship to popular and often toxic constructions of ‘fatherhood’ on the internet. Breaking apart the idiomatic registers that define parenting today using distortion, contrast, sequencing, and palimpsest, all qualities that have come to define his oeuvre, Abel explores what it means to live, laugh, and yes, father ‘in a world without dads.’
Jordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps, Un/inhabited, Injun, NISHGA, and Empty Spaces. Abel has won many awards for his work, including the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and his latest book of poetry is titled Dad Era (Coach House Books, 2026). Abel is a Professor at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures, Research-Creation, and Creative Writing.
Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026, Devin Johnston
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Bright Thorn, distilling Devin Johnston’s work across a quarter century and seven books, offers an alternative to our frenzied moment through the calm measured feeling and formal intelligence of his verse. Historical, philosophical, closely observational, and rooted evenly in the deep poetic past and the daily rhythms of American life, these poems open the world to imaginative scrutiny. Johnston is a chronicler in a Yeatsian sense, whose eye, cast discerningly over the landscape, is affectionate yet icily clear.
Devin Johnston was born in 1970 and spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of seven previous books of poetry and two books of prose, including Creaturely and Other Essays. He works for Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University, in Missouri, where he lives.
Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For?, Donna Masini
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Format: Hardcover
Formally inventive and conversational, the poems, prose poems, lyric essays, and “notebook entries” in Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? explore our bewildering, increasingly fragmented lives. Unpredictable and unfailingly curious, Donna Masini—in her most compelling, wide-ranging book yet—moves from elegy and intimate address to exuberant performance and meditations on mortality and time.
These poems are rooted in the everyday: the supermarket line, dentist’s office, DMV, or pain relief aisle. Here erupt sudden spiritual questions: What are we without memory? Are clams happy? What is happiness? This moving, irreverent, and surprisingly buoyant collection is alert to the ways in which we distract ourselves—erotic fantasy, binge-watching Netflix—and try to make meaning out of these distractions. For all their shifts of mind, for all the human noise, these are poems alive to mystery, to our unexpected moments of beauty, ultimately asking: Why love it all so intensely?
Donna Masini is the author of a novel and three poetry collections, most recently 4:30 Movie. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City.
Material, Ana María Caballero
Publisher: Trio House Press
Publication Date: May 15, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
“…it’s better for all of us to be amazing than for just one me to be amazing / I wasted my youth on the flat breath of others / Until all of a sudden I stopped performing.” Material is a book with no place to hide, offering a mature rendering of how experience cuts as it sculpts. The unapologetic female speaker explores different ways strength manifests in the roles of artist, wife, daughter, and mother — and how recorded and parsed observation can be a form of both protest and care. In her second collection, Ana Maria Caballero delivers honest, edgy, and exquisitely crafted explorations of how we seek to balance the multiple roles and responsibilities that call to us, all the while preserving our wild, creative, imperfect selves.
Ana María Caballero is a multidisciplinary, award-winning Colombian-American poet and artist. Her work explores how biology delimits our societal and cultural rites, questioning gendered notions of sacrifice and virtue. She is the author of two previous poetry collections and a memoir. Material was awarded Trio House Press’ Editors Choice Award in 2025 and is forthcoming from the press in 2026. Her work with poetry on the blockchain is often covered by major media outlets, such as The Art Newspaper, Monopol, El País, Weltkunst Magazin, Artnet, NPR, Entrepreneur, Coindesk and Elle UK. She cofounded digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse.com, where the intrinsic value of poems as works of art is made manifest via blockchain technology. theVERSEverse has been shortlisted for the Lumen Prize and the Digital Innovation in Art Award.
Postcards From and To America, Robert Hogg
Publisher: Chax Press
Publication Date: May 15, 2026
Format: Paperback
Postcards is a book from an intensely lived life, and one lived in generosity, contemplation, and with deep friendship. Hogg writes to friends, companions, family, colleagues, including fellow writers. Yet the “postcards” (each poem is like such a missive) are to all of us, Everyman, Everywoman, every being (as the earth itself, and its plants and animals, are part of the life of Hogg as they should be for everyone). In fact, one might say that being is the optimal word to describe what these poems are about. Being in its deep sense, of wonder and connection to the universe. These poems connect to you, to me, and just keep doing so, reading after reading. You will want to read these poems over and over.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta on March 26, 1942, Robert Hogg was raised on the VT Ranch on Green Lake in the Cariboo, and in the lower Fraser Valley. Professor Hogg studied English and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia where he co-edited the Canadian literary magazine TISH until 1964. While at UBC, Hogg met the post modern, avant-garde poet who became a friend and mentor. Hogg completed his graduate studies at SUNY Buffalo under Robert Creeley, another friend of Charles Olson.
Now What, Joseph Lease
Publisher: Chax Press
Publication Date: May 15, 2026
Format: Paperback
Now What, Winner of the Philip Whalen Award, gathers brilliant, accessible, and moving poems that explore the relentless discovery of environmental devastation, and the layers of human responsibility. Joseph Lease’s poems enact a way of a way of learning to die, a way of witnessing and acknowledging personal and collective responsibility, a way of mourning, and a way of going on.
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Fire Season (Chax, 2024) & The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, 2018). Lease’s poem “’Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” was anthologized in The Best American Poetry (Robert Creeley, Guest Editor). His poem “Free Again (Why don’ t people)” was published in The New York Times. Lease is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts.
Lateral Sway, Hannah Karpinski
Publisher: Metatron Press
Publication Date: May 16, 2026
Format: Paperback
Moving through queer intimacy, memory, and displacement, the poems in this collection trace what it means to be pulled off-course—towards others, towards language, towards fleeting forms of belonging. Fragmentary and tender, Lateral Sway offers an account of how connections survive across bodies, borders, and time.
Hannah Karpinski is a lesbian Canadian poet from Tkaronto/Toronto. Diving into intimate personal archives and collective memory, she writes about queer friendship and queer desire. You can find her poems in Commo Mag, Voicemail Poems, Ghost City Press’ My Loves: Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems, and elsewhere. Lateral Sway is her first book.
Lunar Calendar: New and Selected Prose Poems, 1984–2026, Eric Pankey
Publisher: SUNY Press
Publication Date: May 15, 2026
Format: Paperback
Lunar Calendar draws together prose poems from Eric Pankey’s many collections together with a book-length collection of new poems. While written in prose form, these poems maintain the lively lyric intensity of Pankey’s verse poems, allowing for mystery and uncanniness, for wandering and wondering, for speculation and revery. David Keplinger writes, “Eric Pankey’s … prose poetry [is] deeply faithful to the European roots of the genre … This work is spectacular.” Rachel Eliza Griffiths says of Pankey’s poems, “Like water, fire, air, memory and earth, these prose poems gather elementally into a revelatory force.” Ilya Kaminsky writes, “This is a book of visions wherein mystery attempts to be clear. How? Clarity, clarity is our deepest mystery Mahmoud Darwish once told us.” Andew Zawacki notes that Pankey’s is “a beguiling book of inventories and elegies, of fugue and fever dream, of uncanny conundrums and para-fairy tales, in which doors open onto doors…”
Eric Pankey, whose honors include the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and the New Measure Poetry Prize, is the author of many collections of poetry and a book of essays. His writing has been supported by fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Professor Emeritus of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University.
To Be (a Woman), Rachel Turney
Publisher: redrosethorns press
Publication Date: May 13, 2026
Format: Paperback
To Be (a Woman) is a poetry collection that examines womanhood through the past, the workplace, relationships, mental health, travel, and metaphor. Poetry, nonfiction, and storytelling converge in a compelling journey of self-discovery and self-love. This book embodies everything redrosethorns stands for: examining societal expectations, reclaiming identity, and empowering voices.
Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is the Writer in Residence (2026) at NKollectiv in Englewood, Colorado. Her poems, research articles, reviews, and drawings can be found in a variety of publications. Rachel is passionate about immigrant rights, teacher support, and empowering other artists. She is a Writers’ Hour prize winner and Best of the Net nominee. Her photography appears on a few magazine covers. Rachel is the founder of the popular online reading series Poetry (in Brief). She is on staff at Bare Back Magazine with her monthly column Friday Night in the Suburbs. She reads for The Los Angeles Review.
At the Mercy of the Flies, Matt McBride
Publisher: Half Mystic Press
Publication Date: April 28, 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
At the Mercy of the Flies renders the mundanity of daily life as a series of dislocations. In brief, lucid scenes, these poems map estrangement and excess onto surreal worlds where ambulances play Katy Perry, pearls rain from the sky, and every screen glows with impossible promises. What emerges is a record of survival written in the margins of collapse. Anchored in the author’s experiences with depression and the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, At the Mercy of the Flies charts the cartographies of a life and a nation in freefall. No party lasts forever—not even America.
Matt McBride is the author of two full-length collections, City of Incandescent Light (Black Lawrence, 2018) and At the Mercy of the Flies (Half Mystic, 2026), as well as four chapbooks. His most recent, Prerecorded Weather, co-written with Noah Falck, is available from Survision Books. He is the winner of the James Tate Prize, the St. Lawrence Book Award, and the Ohio Chapbook Award. He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council grant, an Elliston Poetry Fellowship, and a Writers in the Heartland residency. Currently, he lives in Chambersburg, PA, where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Wilson College.
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Contents
Chapbook Poem: Slow Burn by Evan Wang
“The concept of personifying a slow burn deeply resonated with who I thought myself to be—a slow burn, love flickering around me.” Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for April 2026, “Slow Burn” by Evan Wang, along with a few words from the poet.
Book Excerpt: She wants shimmering scales by Nicole Alston Zdeb
“The nexus of the erotic, the social, and the body felt relevant to what I was experiencing at the end of the 20th Century. There are glimmers of personal lore as well…” Read the featured Excerpt Poem of the Month for April 2026, “She wants shimmering scales” from The End of Welcome by Nicole Alston Zdeb, along with a few words from the poet.
“I wanted to explore how time was registered not only by the calendar and clock, but also in the various utilitarian tasks of my mother’s life.” Read three poems by Ron Mohring, our first biweekly poet of the Spring 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Fuse.”
Three Poems by Andrew Pelham-Burn
“Children in these circumstances are deprived of love at a formative stage and learn to immediately behave like adults without the benefit of the learning path of childhood.” Read three poems by Andrew Pelham-Burn, our second biweekly poet of the Spring 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Conkers.”
A Conversation with John deSouza
“Language is a powerful tool and can do great harm both to ourselves and to those most close to us when used cruelly or selfishly.” Poet John deSouza discusses his chapbook, This Rough Magic, his creative process, and the influence of John Ashbery in this interview with editor Danielle McMahon.
Chapbook Poem: from Stray Hunter’s Bullet by Lance Le Grys
“…what interested me was the idea of a character who didn’t do what he was capable of, not because of external circumstances, but because of either a lack of will or a seemingly perverse one.” Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for May 2026, from Stray Hunter’s Bullet by Lance Le Grys, along with a few words from the poet.
Book Excerpt: Love does not exist by Maria Giesbrecht
“This poem was inspired by a dream… I had this strange feeling when I woke up that it meant something more and started writing a poem to see if anything would reveal itself to me.” Read the featured Excerpt Poem of the Month for May 2026, “Love does not exist” from A Little Feral by Maria Giesbrecht, along with a few words from the poet.
“After a loss in my family, I discovered one grieves for both the living who hide their pain and for the dead who sleep in silence.” Read two poems by Patricia Wallace, our third biweekly poet of the Spring 2026 issue, along with a few words about “Fox.”