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Below is the 2016 Literary Magazine Rankings for Poetry. For an explanation of the methodology, go here. If you find these rankings useful, please consider making a donation or purchasing one of my books. 2016 Magazine 2015 2016 Score 1 Kenyon...

                       The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass...

The Poet’s Journey (after a painting by Lily Moon)  The girl has stars attached to her wrists by strings. The stars like fireflies. I mean alive, with agendas. They’ve come to take her. But, on her head is a greening tree, even...

April 21, 2016 at Mechanics’ Institute Library and Chess Room in San Francisco. Come celebrate ZYZZYVA’s Spring/Summer issue, held at ZYZZYVA’s new home, the Mechanics’ Institute Building. Reading on this special night will be Issue No. 106 contributors...

Hawa Allan Bulwarks against the tidal wave of horror . . . #SelfCare Poem: “In Service of Staying Alive“, by Lynne Procop. Novel: That would be Deep Singh Blue, by Ranbir Singh Sidhu — a coming-of-age novel about a Sikh-American teen growing up in...