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The story I’m telling

I took up residence in the Toronto airport once. The reasons are a long story and not the one I’m telling. Toronto has two airports. This was the one all in glass. They had a sushi bar that also served coffee. Lattes named after famous novels. I drank from The Awakening twice. Tried The EnglishContinue reading “The story I’m telling”

Posted byRogan KellyFebruary 13, 2021Posted inblog, UncategorizedTags:poetry journal2 Comments on The story I’m telling

This time a year ago,

I was sitting in a NYC bar with Philip F. Clark waiting for a reading of some sort, writing down possible journal names. Wondered if The Night Heron Barks would get us laughed out of the room.

Posted byRogan KellyDecember 19, 2020Posted inblog, Uncategorized2 Comments on This time a year ago,

An Invitation

I suspect editors have their own version of that hypothetical, if they could invite any five people for dinner. I think of poets and poems.

Posted byRogan KellyAugust 4, 2020August 4, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:angela narciso torres, laurie saurborn, poetry, the night heron barksLeave a comment on An Invitation

Only the poets

I woke early this morning to the news that a certain Republican senator had tweeted last night his intention to vote against witnesses in the impeachment trial. Trying to push down a sense of anger and dismay, I returned to Lisa Rosenberg’s poem which I first read yesterday.

Posted byRogan KellyJanuary 31, 2020December 21, 2020Posted inblog, present poem, UncategorizedTags:dignity, impeachment, Lisa Rosenberg, publishing credit, sky falling1 Comment on Only the poets

The Timely Poem

One of the things that I spoke out loud about two weeks ago was the idea that we would make space for work that needs to be heard now. Carole Bromley has written a poem with quiet heartbreak in it. It made me think about foregrounds and backgrounds. How if we whisper about what isContinue reading “The Timely Poem”

Posted byRogan KellyJanuary 9, 2020January 9, 2020Posted inblog, UncategorizedTags:Australia, Carole Bromley, compassion, poem, poetry1 Comment on The Timely Poem

Fieldnotes

“Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons; trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a few decades hence only the oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know.” — Aldo Leopold, “On a Monument to the Pigeon,” 1947 We will publish theContinue reading “Fieldnotes”

Posted byRogan KellyDecember 30, 2019February 5, 2020Posted inUncategorized1 Comment on Fieldnotes

what is vital, what is fleeting

We intend to publish one issue with each season, but would also like to provide space for poets who need to sound now. If you have a poem that is vital, current, pressing, make note of it in your submission subject line and we will try to attend to it in time.

Posted byRogan KellyDecember 30, 2019January 2, 2020Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on what is vital, what is fleeting

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