It was such a pleasure to meet Risa Denenberg in person for the first time last year at AWP in Portland. She does so much incredible work for the literary community and truly is just a delightful and kind person. I couldn’t be more honored that she would […]
It was such a pleasure to meet Risa Denenberg in person for the first time earlier this year at AWP in Portland. She does so much incredible work for the literary community and truly is just a delightful and kind person. I couldn’t be more honored that she […]
The Poetry Cafe is a new online meeting space where poetry chapbooks are reviewed and listed for interested chapbook writers, readers, lovers and reviewers. I was curious how and why this poetry chapbook site began, so I asked founder Risa Denenberg a few questions to find out. See […]
Lavender Review is an international, biannual (June & December) e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians, including whatever LGBTQ might appeal to a lesbian readership. It is a publication of Headmistress Press, which publishes books of poetry by lesbian poets. They have an excellent […]
Poets are sensitive people. Our work is devoted to cataloging observation and experience. We specialize in deliberating about what matters and promoting these findings. I believe that poets are also experts in the study of time. We know how to make time for an art that the world, […]
As a lover and reader of poetry, and as a poet and editor, I'm always thinking about how to connect poems (my favorites, my own, poets I publish) with readers. This is no easy task; it's not as if poems sell by their own weight in worthiness. It […]
The trend these days is to "defy categorization," to blur borders and write poetry in such a way that it becomes "more than" poetry, something so new as to be ground-breaking, unheard of, creating an apparent rift in the use of language. Mary Meriam takes a different tack. […]
