Marginalia, Highlight Reel, and Cabin Fever

Marginalia, Highlight Reel, and Cabin Fever

Marginalia I’m walking on a beach, the tide is low and no one is talking, splintery crabs hiding in kelp beds, an arrangement of mergansers shuffled on the water, their loopy hoods puffed up like forgetfulness— absence mapping its piece of mind. Give it fifty years....
Self-Portrait at Sixty-Three

Self-Portrait at Sixty-Three

The keyboard sounds like a mouse’sfootsteps when he taps, middle fingerof his right hand bent, unable to touchflesh against palm. Walking to relievehimself at night, one eye discernsa mushroom pillow; the other, a pileof dirty clothes. The sprouted, rottingalphabet...
Welcome Stephen Cramer as our new Assistant Poetry Editor!

Welcome Stephen Cramer as our new Assistant Poetry Editor!

The GMR is thrilled to announce that Stephen Cramer will be joining us as Assistant Poetry Editor. We look forward to working even more closely with Stephen. We also wanted to celebrate the publication of Stephen’s most recent book, The Disintegration Loops. A few...
Book Release: Anne Graue

Book Release: Anne Graue

Congratulations to GMR contributor Anne Graue whose new poetry Full and Plum-Colored Velvet  was published in late 2020 by Woodsley Press. Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press,...
New Contributing Poetry Editor: Lupe Mendez!

New Contributing Poetry Editor: Lupe Mendez!

GMR is happy to announce the addition of Lupe Mendez as our new Contributing Poetry Editor! Poet, teacher, and activist Lupe Mendez is the author of the poetry collection   Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the Texas...
New Release: Turn It Up! edited by Stephen Cramer

New Release: Turn It Up! edited by Stephen Cramer

  Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant and hip anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Rita Dove to Yusef Komunyakaa, Kim Addonizio, Kevin Young, and Danez...