Poem of the Month: Elena Hoyt’s Collage Poetry Chapbook “Praxis”

For the full PDF of Hoyt’s chapbook, click here: Praxis – Elena Hoyt Elena Hoyt is a junior at Rice from Sydney, Australia, majoring in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing. She’s an intern at Bloomsday Literary and CoEditor in Chief of R2 where she argues about punctuation for fun. Recently, she’s gotten really into Sudoku. This chapbook was inspired by Susan Howe’s collage … Continue reading Poem of the Month: Elena Hoyt’s Collage Poetry Chapbook “Praxis”

Poem of the Month: Sarah Roberts’ “Electra Woman and her Battery-Powered Headaches”

Electra Woman and her Battery-Powered Headaches by Sarah Roberts   My eyes are squeezed tight and suffocating under three layers of blanket as if the pain in my forehead could be snuffed out. But still, the light is blinding, my mind ablaze like glow-sticks cracked a few too many times. I snapped one all the way open once. I remember how the fluorescence seeped out, … Continue reading Poem of the Month: Sarah Roberts’ “Electra Woman and her Battery-Powered Headaches”

Poem of the Month: Meghna Yennu’s “The Haunting of the Bazaar”

  The Haunting of The Bazaar By Meghna Yennu   You used to tell me that the if you dug deep enough anywhere, you could always find roots if you searched hard enough. Look!, you whispered in that way you used to get when you were all excited, this is how the trees steal life. Hands deep in the dirt, the fingers traced over the … Continue reading Poem of the Month: Meghna Yennu’s “The Haunting of the Bazaar”