Posts Tagged: Melissa Broder
“Bones” by Melissa Broder, Illustrated by Paul Tunis. A National Poetry Month Special
When Paul Tunis emailed me and asked if I’d be interested in looking at a comic he’d drawn in collaboration with the poet Melissa Broder, my answer was an unequivocal yes. I’d have said yes even without the excuse of National Poetry Month or a scheduled review of Broder’s book.
...moreI Have a Jaw That Seeks Chunks
There is dissonance here between expectation and want, a dichotomy as digestible as life and death, or heaven and earth
...moreFreak Flag Fly
In The Book of Freaks, a new collection of prose poems from Pacific Northwest indie press Future Tense Books, Iredell surveys the landscape of our modern existence and creates an alphabetical catalogue of freakishness.
...moreLet’s Float Free In the New Air
Such a surreal experience of the human body pervades See Me Improving. There is as much mystery in sneezing as there is in orgasm.
...moreBlack Hole Sun
Nate Pritts is a facile layerer of images. We get fake animals, a broken sparkleheart, a lute in a window, and flora galore. Ultimately, though, it’s the cadence of the voice that engages the reader. Slant rhyme, and skillfully enjambed couplets and tercets, are the real shakers.
...morePoetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
So, did you like our National Poetry Month project? If you missed any of the poems, check them out here.
Barbara Jane Reyes has some interesting thoughts on poetic tradition.
Virginia Heffernan discusses the way self-publication has lost some of its stigma, and introduces me to a new term: microniche publishing.
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