Hannah VanderHart reviews Dana Roeser’s (Dana Roeser) poetry collection, “All Transparent Things Needs Thundershirts.”

Visit PI Online to read the full review: poetryinternationalonline.com/the-unsubordin…

“WLIIFS is a sort of literary boxcar ride through places that give you that déjà vu feeling even though you’re certain you’ve never been there before.”

Robert Lang’s review of “Where Land is Indistinguishable from Sea” by Helena Mesa is on PI Online: poetryinternationalonline.com/you-cant-go-ho…

“SAGE is an animated, intelligent, multicultural collection of poetry in which Chin braids feminist observations on major political events with lines on family, childhood, art, food & so much more.”

Read Kraiskaya’s interview w/ Marilyn Chin here: poetryinternationalonline.com/girl-sage/

The annual Poetry International Prize Contest closes today! A prize of $1,000 + publication in Poetry International will be given to the winner of this single poem prize. Submit 3 poems for $15 by 11:59pm PST today!
poetryinternationalonline.com/pi-prize-2/

The PI Prize single poem contest submissions period is open through tomorrow. Submit for a chance to win $1000 and publication in Poetry International! Submissions close TOMORROW, 4/30 at 11:59PST.

Click the link below for more details: poetryinternationalonline.com/pi-prize-2/

“Each is other and is nothing:
among their empty names
they pass and cease to be
water, rock, wind.”

Octavio Paz from “Wind, Water, Rock”

poetryinternationalonline.com/poems/11978/

“Svetlana Lavochkina’s writing brims and bubbles, twists and turns; not laborious but deftly industrial: power-loving and full of the unsentimental and the sensory”

Read the rest of the review by Marina Brown of Lavochkina’s latest book here:
poetryinternationalonline.com/unearthed-gems/

San Diego!!!

Please come to SDSU’s Love Library tomorrow, Wednesday, at 7pm to hear me read from my book, STANDING IN THE FOREST OF BEING ALIVE! I cannot guarantee that my hair will look this good, alas. But I will be happy to see you!!

On Wed, 4/24 writer Katie Farris (Katie Farris) joins us in SDSU’s Love Library Rm 430 at 7PM for our next Living Writers event. She will be reading from her poetry collection “Standing in the Forest of Being Alive.” This event is free and open to all!

“words soaked in coal oil / then set ablaze, a carnival of words // sacrificed over rivers, from bridges, / from trees, too-ripe words dangling // from branches just beyond our reach.”

Christian Campbell from
“Oregon Elegy”

poetryinternationalonline.com/poems/oregon-e…

“Martin Ott’s Captive excels in the skill of capturing simple life moments with unexpected sincerity.”

Read Elise Ohem’s review of Martin Otts’s Captive at PI Online: poetryinternationalonline.com/review-of-mart…

Martin Ott
C&R Press

“Dark blue shot with death rays but only a short distance
keep of course water and batteries, antibiotics
I love the infinity of these silent spaces
Always look at California for the last time”

Adrienne Rich
“Messages”

“Her devotion to form and syntax puts a cage around all of our anxieties for…social, environmental and political realities of the age”

Read more of Anna Gasaway (she/her) **IT'S THE GUNS**’s interview with Claire Wahmanholm here: poetryinternationalonline.com/the-poetics-of…

“Questioning & by extension exploring self-reflectively or imaginatively into sometimes unsettling answers are the centering practices of this collection.”

Michael Collin’s review of Nancy Naomi Carlson’s “Piano in the Dark” on PI Online: poetryinternationalonline.com/unearthed-from…

Join us for a reading from poet and educator Joshua Burton on Wednesday, April 17th at 7pm via Zoom. Burton will be reading from his debut full-length poetry collection “Grace Engine.” The event is free and open to the public. Register for the event here: sdsu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

On Wed, 4/24 writer Katie Farris (Katie Farris) joins us in SDSU’s Love Library Rm 430 at 7PM for our next Living Writers event. She will be reading from her poetry collection “Standing in the Forest of Being Alive.” This event is free and open to all!

“The sorrowful poems in Jennifer Franklin’s smart, deeply moving third book, If Some God Shakes Your House, range from tender to shattering.”

Read more from Catherine Imbriglio’s review at
PI Online:
poetryinternationalonline.com/a-proleptic-re…

Four Way Books

The Poetry International Prize single poem contest is open until 4/30! The winner is awarded $1000 and publication in PI. For $15, you can submit up to 3 poems. We look forward to reading your work!

For more info: poetryinternationalonline.com/pi-prize-2/

“Snow is hypocritical. It’s not even
an independent material.
It has to depend on cold air
and its nature is to assist the evils.”

Pan Xichen from
“The Hypocrisy Of Snow”
(transl. Ming Di & Neil Aitken)

poetryinternationalonline.com/poems/12042-2/

Join us for a reading from poet and educator Joshua Burton on Wednesday, April 17th at 7pm via Zoom. Burton will be reading from his debut full-length poetry collection “Grace Engine.” The event is free and open to the public. Register for the event here: sdsu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…