Category: poetry
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Less Permanent Black Out
Black Out Poetry has made a couple appearances in my life recently, once in R. Diskin Black’s workshop with the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group in late April and once while reading Urvi Thakker’s honors thesis. (Urvi is a senior at Lafayette College, where McKenna Graf is also a member of the Class of 2026. Congrats to…
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Summer Must Reads
If you’re looking for your summer must-reads, let me suggest:
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Night of the Swaying Grass
Tomorrow, The Night of Swaying Grass debuts. This memoir by R. Diskin Black features 63 poems that tell Black’s history, celebrates finding oneself, honors the heritage of New York City and explores topics from finding oneself to recognizing the AIDS crisis of the late 1980s. Black understands that life is hard but he also knows,…
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Poetry worthy of a Parisian Café
The celebration for Nancy Scott’s 1,000 career bylines included candy cigarettes, espresso, and croissants reminiscent of the beat poets in a long-lost mid-twentieth century Paris cafe. Let me give you this video of Nan reading her poem “The Knife,” which appeared in Disabled Tales, an online journal from the United Kingdom, as byline 999. You can…
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New poetry releases this week
Kathryn Dohrmann’s first of two small poetry chapbooks releases this week– the second will follow in the spring of 2026. Archaeomythology explores the connection between people, poetry and place. EVENTS November 2025 Ringing in 2026
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Halloween Collaboration
Speaking of Nancy Scott, she and artist Maryann Riker of Justarip Press have a collaborative acrostic poem for Halloween.Halloween Acrostic by Nancy Scott; Art by Maryann Riker
Parisian Phoenix Publishing 