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New from Steve Davenport — Bruise Songs
Steve Davenport’s Bruise Songs is aggressive—21st century blues, a rap for the times, a hymn for the hurts we bear and for which we recover.
Nicholas Alexander Hayes in Poetry Today #2: Beauty and Language
Poetry Today is a series dedicated to learning about the characteristics of poets and poetry from writers who have published a collection of poetry, full-length or chapbook, within the year.
A Folio of Poems by Andra Schwarz – translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul
What I withheld is this expanse
of silent wetlands
barren pond behind the village
New Paulo Abramo translation by Dick Cluster in Asymptote
In the Maria Zélia Political Prison, 1935
Paula Abramo
one purgatory underneath
another purgatory
underneath a third
that leads to a fourth
New from Nicholas Alexander Hayes: Ante-Animots- Idioms and Tales
These idioms and tales use language as a tool to lift a hazy film away from our perception and replace it with another. Is it surgery or a theater of cruelty, a catastrophe or a joke?
Issue 21 | Fall 2019
Issue 21 features work by Ty Hall, D-L Alvarez, Rachel Nagelberg, Clara Ronderos (translated by Mary G. Berg), Sabahattan Ali (translated by Daniel Koehler), Mannika Mishra, Joelle Lambert, Lydia Armstrong, Evelyn Martinez, Ivan Jozic (translated by Marta Huber), Karla Marrufo (translated by Allison A. deFreese), Zachary Schomburg, Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou (translated by Siavash Saadlou), and Larry D. Thacker. Cover art by Jaime Cortez.
Issue 20 | Summer 2019
Issue 20 features work by Luisa Valenzuela (translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz), Alvin Lu, J. Weintraub, Jessica Love, Keith Carver, Karen An-hwei Lee, Christopher Clubb, Mike Dressel, Jorge Enrique Botero (translated by David Feller Pegg), Talal Alyan, Carl-Christian Elze (translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul), Bijan Najdi (translated by Parisa Saranj), and Amy Forstadt. Cover art by Jerry Seguin.
New Translations from David Pegg Appearing in Asymptote Journal
The performance takes place in four distinct spaces: lobby, cabaret, memory gallery, and theater. As the audience enters the lobby, a light shines on a man sitting inside a glass case. He is holding a small white boat in his hands. In another part of the lobby, an...
James Bourey reviews Thaddeus Rutkowski’s Border Crossings
Thaddeus Rutkowski is a sneaky poet. In this collection of poetry we first see a table of contents listing seventy-one poems most with short, rather pedestrian sounding titles:
Issue 19 | Winter 2019
Issue 19 includes work by Jesse Falzoi, Miguel Gardel, Fradl Shtok (translated by Jordan Finkin and Allison Schachter), Anu Kandikuppa, Daniel Uncapher, L.I. Sargis, Stefan Kiesbye, J S Khan, Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, Harford Hopson, Elvira Vigna (translated by Adrian Minckley) Luis Miguel Rivas Granada (translated by David Feller Pegg), Karin Wraley Barbee, Dennis Vannatta, Nadija Rebronja (translated by Ivana Maksić) Jared Pearce, Thomas Griffin, Stella Díaz Varín (translated by Rebecca Levi), and Kathleen Hellen. Cover art by Mary Burger.
Our Pushcart Nominations for 2018
Your Impossible Voice is thrilled to announce this year’s nominations for the Pushcart Prize."The Rapist’s Dog" by Sara Kachelman (Your Impossible Voice #16, Winter 2018)"In the Garden of Earthly Delights," by Luisa A. Igloria (Your Impossible Voice #16, Winter...
Thomas March reads “Great Aunt Mary Agnes’ Eye”
Thomas March reads his poem “Great Aunt Mary Agnes’ Eye” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
Thomas March reads “Unburial”
Thomas March reads his poem “Unburial” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
Amitai Ben-Abba reads “Pre-Psychotic State”
Amitai Ben-Abba reads “Pre-Psychotic State” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
July Westhale reads “Teresa of Avila Patron Saint of Via Negativa”
July Westhale reads “Teresa of Avila Patron Saint of Via Negativa” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
July Westhale reads “On Friendship”
July Westhale reads “On Friendship” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #18.
Issue 18 | Fall 2018
Issue 18 features work by Joanna Ruocco, Miguel Barnet (translated by George Henson), Ricardo Piglia (translated by Robert Croll), Lise Gauvin (translated by Aliya Esmail), Dia Felix, Brooks Sterritt, Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada, Molly Yingling, Silver Damsen, Rob McClure Smith, Amitai ben-Abba, July Westhale, Martina Reisz, Thomas March, Adam Clay, Elizabeth Spires, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Cover art by Sean Casey.
Laurie Stone reads “Sunglasses”
Laurie Stone is author most recently of My Life as an Animal, Stories. She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice, theater critic for The Nation, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book...
Geraldine Connolly reads “Cinder”
Geraldine Connolly reads "Spider" appearing in Your Impossible Voice #17. Geraldine Connolly is the author of three poetry collections, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, and Hand of the Wind. Her new book, Aileron, will be published by Terrapin Books in 2018. Her...
Geraldine Connolly reads “Spider”
Geraldine Connolly reads "Spider" appearing in Your Impossible Voice #17. Geraldine Connolly is the author of three poetry collections, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, and Hand of the Wind. Her new book, Aileron, will be published by Terrapin Books in 2018. Her...