Mickey Finn is a chewed up and spat out poet born and raised in Liverpool, U.K. After his birth in 1991 and a relatively unremarkable life, he recently released his first book, Golden, having worked on it for between three and four years.
Read MoreI'm Uchechukwu Nwafor. Most of my online friends call me 'Will', 'cause the meaning of my name means God's Will. I'm from and currently based in Nigeria. I'm a fashion designer by day and a poet round the clock!
Read MoreSo you worked on that one poem for weeks, and it is about a subject that is close to your heart. You press post and your palms are sweaty. And there it comes. The stink. It always comes first and is soon followed by that dreaded hairy internet beast: in walks that fucking troll.
Read MoreThe Care Home is Rebecca Rijsdijk’s fourth collection of poetry. This book deals with what it is like to work as a carer with our without a global pandemic. It portrays the people the author works with, and it portrays the inner life of the carer.
Read MoreAndrej Peterka is a poet, acupuncturist and natural health practitioner based in Minnesota, USA (St Paul and Whalan). His work can be found in our Spring 2021 Edition. We had a little chat with Andrej about his work.
Read MoreIn a world choking on social media cleanliness, Golden is a glance at the sordid underbelly which unites humanity - whether humanity likes it or not. It is a knot of painfully-raw honesty and bitter deceit, drenched in a vicious philosophy and hard to swallow half-truths. It oozes anti-poetry at a time when the art form is reduced to self-help and a ceaseless quest for innocence and purity.
Read MoreOur Sarah sent a New York Times article in our poetry group app a couple of days ago. It was a review on a pandemic poetry book. On the cover, it said, ‘America’s poets respond to a pandemic.’ The author of the review, Dwight Garner, complained about a lack of bite in the book. We all thought that was a bit of a no-brainer.
Read MoreWe don't mean to crap on she-poets or two sentence love poems, but just let you know that if you write about politics, or equal rights, or anything else that matters, there is a place for you in this world.
Read MorePeople can hate you just because your face reminds them of the sister they hate or the uncle that locked them in the cupboard as a kid. If the hate you receive isn’t personal, then the same goes for the love. It all comes down to taste and matching your work with the right readers.
Read MoreGeorge J Cardy is a brand-new poet on our radar who writes about human relationships and her personal experiences. We had a little chat with her about her work and her influences. George's poetry can be found in our Winter 2020 Edition.
Read MoreSilas Denver Melvin (2000) is a queer, trans masculine poet from Southern N.H. As an introverted Gemini, he's been writing ever since he learned how to hold a pencil. At 20, he's published poetry with several outlets. Grit is his first collection of poems to be published.
Read MoreSean Felix @thedawnwriter (he/him) is an African-American poet, born and raised in the United States, in Washington, DC. Sean now lives in Maryland. Poetry is the art of life that drives him to critique what is wrong, and to embrace what is beautiful and strange. Sean is also one of our brand new digital editors.
Read MoreI’m a poet and fiction writer (she/her) living in Toronto, Canada, with my husband and son. Through my work I strive to encourage readers to reflect, feel, and recognize our shared humanity and capacity for redemption and evolution.
Read MoreAshley Green is a poet from Southern California. She writes about everything that keeps her up at night. Find her online at amoderncrone.com or follow her on Instagram @amoderncrone.
Read MoreE. T. Reyes has a clear command of form that comes through in the way she sets the stage in each poem – a crime scene, a love scene, or a shade of both.
Read MoreSo if you haven’t been interviewed for years, you can sit and cry about it or you can reboot your old press and interview yourself.
Read MoreThe internet can be a magical place, and it totally is when it comes to submitting your work to magazines and online publications.
Read MoreSelf Publishing your first book can seem a little daunting at first. Where do you begin? In this article, we share the (free) tools we use to publish our books.
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