ANNOUNCING: SHARKPACK Annual’s BotN Nominees, 2016
In hopes of earning our outstanding contributors more readers, the editor has nominated the following pieces from our “Cities, Sites” issue …
PRESS RELEASE / Goode
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE RIBBON ON THE BOMB Laura Goode’s shortbook Become a Name Boston, MA (1 August 2015)—Fathom Books is …
Announcing: Winner of ‘Valus’ Sigil,’ 2016
The winner of SHARKPACK Poetry Review‘s and SHARKPACK Annual‘s ‘Valus’ Sigil’ prize for game-inspired literature and SUPERNATURE is: Adam Phillips for his poem “oversoul.” Adam …
A Thanks, Lucia Perillo
It’d’ve been a shame for me to say anything but thank you, and even that I tried to pass by …
Sections from Owen Vince’s THE ADRIFT OF SAMUS ARAN
Not since reviewing Saavedra’s “From the Temple Priapus” have I been tossed into such lavish feeling: these five sections from …
Fathom Books’ 2016 Catalogue!
Friends, did you know? SHARKPACK Poetry Review lovingly added SHARKPACK Annual to our fold in 2014, and now, now, we announce our own small …
Micro-Micro: Ada Limón’s “Service”
Up recently at Buzzfeed, Limón’s 2015 poem is exemplar of one of contemporary talk-poetry’s favorite modes: shallow identity verse. In …
Such, in pursuit of a god
Bill Pulley was in college in 1964. He went to Vietnam and came back to a career in the government’s …
Matt Kilbane’s “That Her Acts of Beauty be Remembered”
Kilbane’s poem, up recently at DIAGRAM, recalls one of poetry’s primary joys: memory and place enlivened by language’s occupation. Here it is, that …
Announcing: An OAV Vacancy
Shortly: OUR ALCHEMICAL VALENTINE will be vacant for 2016. We couldn’t find a poem we felt searching and powerful enough to warrant …
For St. Valentine: JILTED. Emily Dickinson.
[830] To this World she returned. But with a tinge of that— A Compound manner, As a Sod Espoused a …
For St. Valentine: JILTED. Stéphane Mallarmé.
from A Tomb for Anatole, [7] what has taken refuge your future in me becomes my purity through life, which I shall …
For St. Valentine: JILTED. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
He professeth Indifference Hate whom ye list for I care not; Love whom ye list and spare not; Do what …
For St. Valentine: JILTED. Cyrus Console.
100000 Without a moment’s warning we were on the red sofa in the common area, the floor lamps drawing themselves …
For St. Valentine: JILTED. Gertrude Stein.
from Three Lives ‘Jeff never, even now, knew what it was that moved him. He never, even now, was ever sure, …
On Not Writing
I excuse myself from the little office that is nothing like a prison—though, because I have not been able to …
Sarah Grigg Rolph’s “Roadkill”
This short lyric, up recently at Painted Bride Quarterly, is notable for an unassuming approach that avails a very ready perspicacity. I’ll admit, …
The Chapbook Mission
Much of my early winter has been spent in the thrall of a short-form project—specifically, a group of poems responding …
Announcing: SPRA‘s Pushcart Prize Nominees, 2015
For love of these works and in hopes of securing their authors a broader readership, we’ve selected the following texts …
A Letter: ‘Why Ought a Writer—’
The alert popped up, reminding me. I knew it’d come up faster than I expected. Essays do that, always. So …
