Argonaut To empty feels good, to purge interior of self, something warm gushing forth, a surge of possessiveness, of jealousy for what shapes my body could take, before my edges grew smudged. Any answer will erase us, I am not alone in this vanishing, how when I walk from the train to my college…
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Neglecting the Noise: A Review of Elisa Grajeda-Urmston and Tamara Adams’ “Soundcheck: A Musician’s Journey in Song and Verse”
Elisa Grajeda-Urmston’s Soundcheck: A Musician’s Journey in Song and Verse (Jamii Books, 2018, with artwork by Tamara Adams) is written “for every girl who ever played a guitar.”
Cards on the Table with Jezmina Von Thiele
Enikő Vághy interviews Jezmina Von Thiele about her spiritual practices, her go-to Tarot deck, and the intersection of Tarot and poetry.
How to Be Sad: Poetry by Risa Denenberg
How to Be Sad If you listen without language, you may hear my grandfather playing Brahms on the cello, grunting every now and then with the effort of an old man soon to die. He played for me that spring I lay sick with pneumonia. I was nine and lonely for my mothership, her planets…
Shared Suffering: A Review of Ariel Francisco’s Before Snowfall, After Rain
Ariel Francisco’s Before Snowfall, After Rain (Glass Poetry Press, 2016) leads readers through a breathing portrayal of New York City where we come face-to-face with our own sense of isolation.
Open Your Mouth, Carry It to the Next Place: A Review of Jenny Sadre-Orafai’s “Malak”
Jenny Sadre-Orafai’s collection Malak (Platypus Press, 2017) creates a new language that helps us understand the metaphysical, the things we cannot see.
Agape Editions and Sundress Publications to Become Sister Presses
Agape Editions and Sundress Publications are pleased to jointly announce that our relationship will be evolving from parent-imprint to sister presses.
Agape Editions Announces Nominations for Bettering American Poetry 2016
We are pleased to share that we have nominated the following three poems for Bettering American Poetry 2016: “Football Season,” by Margaret Bashaar, from Some Other Stupid Fruit. “Dive Straight into the Wreck,” by Joanna C. Valente, from Xenos. “The Key Club,” by Saba Syed Razvi, from her Elgin Award-nominated collection of poetry, In the Crocodile Gardens. Congratulations…
Allison Joseph to Judge 2017 Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origin Literary Award
Agape Editions is delighted to announce that Allison Joseph will be serving as Judge of our 2017 Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origin Literary Award. The NOLO book contest will be given for poetry next year. The submission period will begin in mid-January, so please check the Agape Editions website in early 2017 for details! Allison Joseph lives, writes,…
Interview with Margaret Bashaar on Some Other Stupid Fruit
Julianna DeMicco talks to Margaret Bashaar about how her poetry chapbook Some Other Stupid Fruit (Agape Editions, 2016) confronts feminism.
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie and Fox Frazier-Foley in Conversation about Strut
Fox Frazier-Foley chats with Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie about her poetry collection Strut (Agape Editions, 2018) and the process of choosing the right press.
NOLO Contest Deadline Extension
Agape Editions has extended our Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origins Contest deadline until May 15th. Our award is given annually to recognize a book of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or genre-defying aesthetic that intellectually stimulates and psychically dazzles its readers into a deeper entanglement with Mystery. Our 2016 contest is limited to books of poetry. To submit for consideration…
