Joe Hall reports on his confusing sexual encounter with pastor & colonial poet Edward Taylor; Melissa Broder imagines the power & intricacies of Emily Dickinson’s vagina; J. Hope Stein (me) finds a friend in Goethe and coins the phrase F&M as the new S&M; Sara Lefsyk takes us on a lyrical surrealist journey with Lorca; Maria Garcia Teutsch finds the sexual longings & healings of Henry Miller in the ocean tide; Janaka Stucky gives us a heart-felt & hot-shamed love poem for Jean Genet; Leah Umansky writes of her forbidden love for John Donne; Gregory Crosby pens a tender address to the life, writing, hardships & full woman-ness of Marina Tsvetaeva; Lauren Gordon‘s heavenly homage gets Longfellowy with Longfellow; Kristy Bowen meditates on T. S. Eliot & the cruelness of April in an intimate letter; Joanna Penn Cooper reflects on crush Rainer Rilke at 2 points in her life, getting to the essence of what our crushes say about us in different stages of our lives; and last but not least - Susan Yount contemplates halloween favorite – Edgar Allan Poe & the Bells!
POETRY FOUNDATION calls us “creepy”
