The Other

Russell Dillon – Eternal Patrol Forklift Books 2013 Page Length: 82 Retail: $15 There was something nearly traceable within us, horse-like and holy. Without this field, there would be an unnamed vacancy between trees. … Here: A photograph where your face is obscured by blurring snowflakes. Gloam-lensed, a moment before inviting me into your papier-mache [...]

It is Easy to Say Yes to Something That Wants You In Angela Veronica Wong’s 25 little red poems (Dancing Girl Press, 2013), sparse, thought-bubble-like poems without titles deliver us into a dark thematic forest of growth, desire, and destruction. The wolf—always a symbol of appetite and lone freedom, and sometimes of destruction—pads atop the [...]

Poetry Blog’s Infoxicated Corner has nominated the following poems (and poets) for 2015’s Best of the Net: Annie Won’s “The Nine Circles of IKEA” Jezmina Von Thiele’s “Transfiguration of the Black Madonna: Gypsy Goddess, Gypsy Saint” Leigh Anne Hornfeldt’s “Dilemma” Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie’s “Blue Libation” Margaret Bashaar’s “There Is Really No Such Thing As Winning” [...]

In the Event of Full Disclosure By Cynthia Atkins CW Books, 2013 REVIEWED BY CHERYL R. HOPSON Cynthia Atkins opens her second collection of poetry, In the Event of Full Disclosure, with a meditation on family love by early twentieth century poet, T.S. Eliot, who writes of such unions as “love that’s lived in, but [...]

Michael T. Young: Thank you, BJ, for agreeing to an interview. Your newest collection, Jackleg Opera, is your fourth, and is a new and collected poems. Could you comment on putting it together: how and if you worked on the new poems to connect thematically in any way to the whole or just worked on [...]

Montana Ray is the author of , published this year by Argos Books. Intrigued by the poem she sent me for TheThe’s Infoxicated Corner (also appearing here today), I asked whether she’d be interested in doing a Q&A on the blog as well. Here’s the deeply enjoyable conversation that ensued: Fox Frazier-Foley: Tell me a [...]

Keisha-Gaye Anderson is author of the poetry collection (Jamii Publishing, 2014), which has been described as “a lyrical outpouring of kinship, heritage, and a woman’s transformation within the world that envelops her . . . a rich compendium of heartfelt poetic verse.” As both a writer & reader of mystical poetry, I found her work [...]