Tag: contemporary poetry

By Richard Mathews with Michael Hettich Poet Michael Hettich won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for his thirteenth collection, Systems of Vanishing, published this spring by the University of

NO PREDICTABLE MALFUNCTION by Colin Dodds The bar smelled like an ex-girlfriend’s breath. And I was like Belgium in the 20th century— just waiting for someone to violate my

BEGINNER’S ENGLISH FOR REFUGEES by Sebastian H. Paramo I walk around the makeshift classroom where the heat has us sweating for words. The adults repeat phrases like a