Enjoy the selected poem from Postal Work or, Day After Day by Edie Reaney Chunn, winner of 2nd place in the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award.
Luckett Creek, 2010 from Laura Amsel’s Weathering Pen | Vallum Chapbook Award 2025, 3rd Place
Enjoy the selected poem from Weathering Pen by Laura Amsel, winner of 3rd place in the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award.
A GOOGLE MAPS VIEW OF THE HOUSE WHERE I GREW UP by John Barton | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem A GOOGLE MAPS VIEW OF THE HOUSE WHERE I GREW UP by John Barton.
IF YOUR DREAMS ARE ENDING by Elana Wolff | Poem in Re-view
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CAUGHT by Angeline Schellenberg | Poem in Re-view
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SKATEBOARD from a chapbook by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem SKATEBOARD from a chapbook by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella.
MORNING by Jeffrey Mackie | Poem in Re-view
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PABLO PICASSO VISITS JAMES JOYCE AND THEY DISCUSS YOUTH by Michael Mirolla | Poem in Re-view
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by Michael Mirolla
Interview by T. Liem with Ockert Greeff // Winner of the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award (No. 39)
Congratulations on winning the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award with A Mass Choir of Little Things!
T. Liem: In this work images and memories accumulate with a weighted pace, whole stanzas repeat like time-slowing refrains, and certain words become chant-like as in “A Letter from The Sea” with sea and see. This feels like a particular kind of musicality. Would you talk about where your experience as a drummer intersects with your experience of composing poetry?