by anniebellequattlebaum | Apr 2, 2020 | Bubbler
Our heartfelt congratulations to poet Lara Egger, who just received the Juniper Prize for a first book of poetry! Several of her poems have appeared in our issues. Check out the press release here: https://www.umass.edu/umpress/2020juniperwinners
by anniebellequattlebaum | Apr 1, 2020 | Bubbler
For your birthday, an oyster poem. -Michael Ratcliffe Our shells clacked on the plates.My tongue was a filling estuary,My palate hung with starlight:As I tasted the salty PleiadesOrion dipped his foot into the water. Alive and violated,They lay on their bed of...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Mar 18, 2020 | Bubbler
“At night I dream about empty parking lots:/ flat and void of memory./ It’s been two years & I still live/ in a temporary house.” Meg Eden’s poetry collection Drowning in a Floating World (Press 53) is concerned with disaster, survival, & what comes in...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Feb 25, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Happy Release Day to Alexis Ivy for her release of “Taking the Homeless Census.” Famed critic Barrett Warner says Ivy’s “touch of what others have touched–their needles, their drink, their piss– turns her hands into doorways that...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jan 17, 2020 | Bubbler
If I think a poem or collection of poems is good and I want to be certain, I measure myself in the doorway. If I was 71 inches before, I am at least 71.001 after my encounter. Or, I’m wider. On the scale, it depends. Is it calibrated to record the gain or loss of a...
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Issue 12
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