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
Sundress Publications is thrilled to announce that Sarah Renee Beach‘s chapbook, Impact, was selected by Tate N. Oquendo as the winner of our eleventh annual e-chapbook contest. Sarah will receive $200 and publication. Originally from Southeast Texas, Sarah Renee Beach completed her MFA at The New School. Her poetry can be found in White Wall Review, Rust + … Continue reading 2022 Chapbook Contest Winner Announced
CAPILLARY ACTION Fish in bird flightthe whistle blowsone lonely boatturns on the sea In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this selection comes from the book, Fever Dream/Take Heart, available from Cathexis Northwest Press. Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera. Valyntina Grenier’s FEVER DREAM / TAKE HEARTmarks a poetic “double … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Fever Dream/Take Heart by Valyntina Grenier
KITTEN AND CROCODILE The soft nape of her neckWoman and godanother rape another childWhy are there twinsWhy does it thunderWe make this windits wrath In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this selection comes from the book, Fever Dream/Take Heart, available from Cathexis Northwest Press. Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Fever Dream/Take Heart by Valyntina Grenier
NEROLI Lost echoan arching sighSegments of citrusyour love is mineI trace a helix over your sleeping eyeThe tips of a tridentlift meI float on my backmy arms spread wideas I course out to seabeseeching Chaos/ infinityHelp meWhat is itThe embarrassmentthe fulfillmentWhatA sinister whorl In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this selection comes from the … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Fever Dream/Take Heart by Valyntina Grenier
WE’RE POSSIBLY OUT OF CAKEour brainstayTomorrow earth clear skies /wdegrees of intervention and departing nospontaneously combusting selfblinda chance of embitterment or cathexisI feel it arriving something fastmaking against some sameSine and rain we condensateThink of beads of mist gatheringalong the outside of a water glassCool down against them and we dohave a poolon some deeper … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Fever Dream/Take Heart by Valyntina Grenier
