William Shakespeare’s Falstaff
[We are pleased to introduce you to another new posting category at SPR—On Character(s). Here we hope to light the …
August 2013
Poetry Magazine’s July/August Issue
The latest issue of Poetry features 33 poems by 21 poets, two-thirds of whom are male. The longest poem, James Logenback’s “Allegory” is 572 words …
POTM: Bin Ramke’s “A Little Ovid Late in the Day”
A Little Ovid Late In The Day It is late in the day to outlive the words: tales of incest, …
Lisa R. Spaar’s “Undressing Myself at the End of Autumn”
Like Jacob Shores-Argüello’s poem a few years back, Lisa Spaar’s “Undressing Myself at the End of Autumn” gives equal parts …
Organon Next: ‘The Quickest Sand’
This question stemmed from a tweet by Boston’s Spece: “Politics, confessionalism, identity poetics—refuse. Literary merit. That is all. #iupampo #w00t” Celebratory …
Czeriza S. Valencia’s “Claustrophobia”
Even in this globalized epoch, where diversity qua diversity owns a corner of canonicity, the modern Filipino’s desire for an …
FL: Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind”
I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done …
