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Delay

bestnewpoems — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:23:11 +0000

Sorry for the delay. A most wonderful and mysterious poem for you all. Well, not mysterious as much as a great treasure beneath the already masterful language. Nick Courtright’s “Destinations, VI.” Posted in Nick Courtright, Beloit Poetry Journal Tagged: Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poems Online, literary magazines, Nick Courtright, poems, poems online, poetry, poetry online [...]

What is Wrong…

bestnewpoems — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:06:28 +0000

It’s getting more and more difficult to find work that is beautiful and lyrical, and substantial, and well-written. And urges the reader to think, even for a moment, about what is wrong or right… Joe Bonomo’s “Children Along Lake Michigan” Posted in Joe Bonomo, Free Verse Tagged: Best New Poems Online, Free Verse, Joe Bonomo, literary magazines, [...]

Implicit unconventionality

bestnewpoems — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:40:54 +0000

It really is difficult to find a good poem which seems to be at once dangerous (by its implicit unconventionality) and understandable (lifting the heart a bit as we are able to allow it). Tony Beyer’s “The Pine Hut” Posted in Tony Beyer, NZEPC Tagged: Best New Poems Online, literary magazines, NZEPC, poems, poems online, poetry, poetry [...]

“something dark and beautiful…”

bestnewpoems — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:15:28 +0000

Nikole Hahn, one of our regional editors, sent us this comment for the below poem by Karen Rigby: “Always a rose entwined with rose, given in ardor or vengeance. Kiss-of-death.” This is my favorite line in the poem. There’s something dark and beautiful about this poem. It attracted my eye right away [...]

Key

bestnewpoems — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:59:44 +0000

Sometimes, one of the marks of a good poem is the way certain key words in certain key locations in the work bring such pleasure to the reader, she trusts it completely. Stav Sadot-Poleg’s “Moons” Posted in Stav Sadot-Poleg, Magma Poetry Tagged: Best New Poems Online, Magma Poetry, poems, poems online, poetry online, Stav Sadot-Poleg [...]

Attentive

bestnewpoems — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:00:38 +0000

How fortunate to read a poem so calm, so attentive to the rhythms and motion of life yet doesn’t stop there, being filled with another kind of landscape both personal, symbolic and beyond. We discovered this poem via the Montana Poetry Day website. David Gregory’s “The Grey Ones” from Land Very Fertile: Banks Peninsula in poetry [...]

Choice

bestnewpoems — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:11:44 +0000

Thanks to all the editors and their suggestions. It makes our work much easier, and the material more choice. We are looking at a few more suggestions from our editors. Meanwhile, one of our editors-in-chief, came across this wonderful and maturely insightful poem by Louise Gluck. Listen also to her nuanced reading of the poem. Louise Gluck’s “In [...]

“Making Sense”

bestnewpoems — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:23:47 +0000

Cati Porter, editor of Poemeleon, had the following comment about one of the poems from her magazine: “I am a big fan of poems that take risks, that make illogical leaps that make sense. The odd imagistic juxtapositions make this poem, as it says, ‘resist all closure.’” Lavina Blossom’s “Three” Posted in Lavina Blossom, Poemeleon Tagged: Best New [...]

“Common Threat”

bestnewpoems — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:15:22 +0000

Linda Benninghoff had this to say about this wonderful poem: “This poem posits a larger community off all sentient beings who feel the common threat to the environment. We must join with the animals in doing something about the environmental crisis. It is imaginative and offers a new vision.” Grace Cavalieri’s “Letter” If you want to contact Linda, [...]

“It takes a poet to understand…”

bestnewpoems — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:02:20 +0000

The following translation was suggested by DeWitt Brinson, one of our regional editors, who had this to say about the poet and her poem. “Death and Daddy issues. Most of her life was in the grip of father communism. Anyone would reach for a knife. It takes a killer to truly understand a weapon. It takes [...]