This selection, chosen by guest editor Samantha Duncan, is from In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier, released by Finishing Line Press in 2022. For the Least Dead Brains These synthesize molecules These design brains Animals sometimes attract a flower So a hummingbird slips her tender tongue from her hovering needle-like bill But often animals repel … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier →

This selection, chosen by guest editor Samantha Duncan, is from In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier, released by Finishing Line Press in 2022. The Plant’s Eye This is speculation I know but idol flowers have always born our mean-making scissors Consider scissors nature’s trope deploying astonishing devices The pitcher marooned and white not attractive unless … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier →

This selection, chosen by guest editor Samantha Duncan, is from In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier, released by Finishing Line Press in 2022. In Our Now ordinary vision is a hinge crowded with flowers busy/ multifarious It feels like a city In a quiet corner a confusion of color and scent is set to a … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier →

This selection, chosen by guest editor Samantha Duncan, is from In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier, released by Finishing Line Press in 2022. Help a Hundred Billion Honeybees Powder Their Thighs Fact is we’ve been aware of indifference to the flower taking part in every being As acorns witness somewhat self-centered angiosperms move freely trial … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier →

This selection, chosen by guest editor Samantha Duncan, is from In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier, released by Finishing Line Press in 2022. Pressed Against This Smart Glass Happen to find yourself a particular afternoon notice a makeshift craft floating through the narrow and bounded by steep shoulders waterway Notice fairies harnessed/ boiled a ramshackle … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier →

This selection, chosen by guest editor Valyntina Grenier, is from I Was One of My Memories by Laurie Blauner (Pank Books 2021). Gender Instructions      My heart is not violent.     Dig a hole and fill it with a body of water.     I speak to myself during dance class.     Carve a man’s body that spills everywhere.     … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: I Was One of My Memories by Laurie Blauner →

This selection, chosen by guest editor Valyntina Grenier, is from I Was One of My Memories by Laurie Blauner (Pank Books 2021). Tahitian Sky Dear Cloud, I’m unfolding and refolding myself to tryto force myself out of grief and back intolove. I am stubborn, rememberingplaces, events, reliving moments throughcell phone photographs, memory andreenacting what happened … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: I Was One of My Memories by Laurie Blauner →

Ann Tweedy‘s first full-length book, The Body’s Alphabet, was published by Headmistress Press in 2016.  It earned a Bisexual Book Award in Poetry and was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and for a Golden Crown Literary Society Award.  Ann also has published three chapbooks, Beleaguered Oases (2nd ed. Seven Kitchens 2020), White … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: A Registry of Survival by Ann Tweedy →

This selection, chosen by guest editor Valyntina Grenier, is from I Was One of My Memories by Laurie Blauner (Pank Books 2021). It’s likely that something is happening      Today I’m an animal waiting for moonlight to move me, muffling my words,carving my sentences like initials in a tree. I’m bereft of children. I merge … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: I Was One of My Memories by Laurie Blauner →

This selection, chosen by guest editor Valyntina Grenier, is from I Was One of My Memories by Laurie Blauner (Pank Books 2021). Little White Lies      “Lie, lie, lie,” my mother told me to make myself younger, when I was alreadyyoung. When I lived with her, she wanted to be more appealing to men. I … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: I Was One of My Memories by Laurie Blauner →