Punchline by Nick Courtright
Brynn Downing reviews Nick Courtright’s Punchline today in Rumpus Poetry.
...more
Posts by: Brynn Downing
Now Make an Altar by Amy Beeder
In Amy Beeder’s poetry, we are surrounded by the refuse and remains of the past: memories and photos of lost generations, the bones and fur of animals used to adorn ourselves, the smell of fallow plants. Her second collection of poetry, Now Make An Altar, explores those remains in verse both haunting and brutal.
...more
“The Girls of Peculiar” by Catherine Pierce
There is a canon of cinema that revolves around girls leaving girlhood, and finding themselves young and nubile, ready (so they think) to embrace their future as women. There’s the girl who seduces her teacher, only to realize she should have loved the boy next door, and there’s the girl who dreams of the city, only to appreciate too late the wisdom (and boys) of her humble town.
...more