Poetry
Contest Winner
Suddenness Lullaby
This poem won the second 2026 Mini Contest, a warmup round for the 2-Day Contest! / /
Safranal
You stand by the stove, stirring a pot of bubbling rice— sticky, gelatinous—your arthritic fingers stained gold by pinched saffron. Your hair is the same rusty bob, your brown eyes ringed with...
Moving Ruins
after Zoë Keating i am revisiting a common kestrel eating a bat on the ledge of someone’s bedroom window. it’s 2010 again and the chat logs are beaming, teeming with conversion of...
Interviews
“Praise Talk, Appreciation, is the Basic Language of Poetry”: A Conversation With Di Brandt
Interviewed by Laurence Hutchman
An Interview with Penn Kemp
Interviewed by Sophie Guillas
Poetry, Accessibility and Education – An Interview with Jónína Kirton
Interviewed by Chloe Gandy
A Real Donnie Brasco Situation: An Interview with Shaun Robinson
Interviewed by Rob Taylor
Reviews
The Lantern and the Night Moths by Yilin Wang
Reviewed by Jeremy Audet
Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney
Reviewed by Chris Johnson
i feel that way too by jaz papadopoulos
Reviewed by hannah godfrey
Bonememory by Anna Veprinska
Reviewed by Liam Monaghan
The Loom by Andy Weaver
Reviewed by Olive Andrews
The Way Things Are at the Moment by Bill Howell
Reviewed by Brent Raycroft
News
Mini Contest Alert!
✨Dust off your dictionaries! ✨ This Sunday is the second 2026 Mini Contest! We've got three more nefarious words from...
Free Poetry Zine-Making Workshop for Teens!
We're so happy to announce that our postponed fall zine-making workshop has been rescheduled to Sunday, February 22nd from 12...
Registration for the 2026 2-Day Poem Contest is Now Open!
Registration for the 2026 CV2 2-Day Poem Contest is now open! This fast-paced yearly contest challenges you to write a...
