https://volumepoetry.com Volume Poetry Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:47:36 +0000 https://volumepoetry.com en https://volumepoetry.com/VOL-5-ISSUE-2-1 Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:47:36 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/VOL-5-ISSUE-2-1 VOL 5&nbsp; ISSUE 2 <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0de962bcbe9d85701d3bf34c96e8bf7b3aab5a10e9cdd404b15ddea33d4e01a5/Circle-1.png" data-mid="240402962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/0de962bcbe9d85701d3bf34c96e8bf7b3aab5a10e9cdd404b15ddea33d4e01a5/Circle-1.png" /> Arable Katharine Towers <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a80773cc284b697e1892f2fac43fb8f9c784abb14c25bcf94fa257f41ef5361a/Circle-2.png" data-mid="240402963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/a80773cc284b697e1892f2fac43fb8f9c784abb14c25bcf94fa257f41ef5361a/Circle-2.png" /> Do Sharks Dream?Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza transl. Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06e80c9605d10ad26370515de94207ebbf39c3f2ebe1ada9eb41bfe055ba4b64/Circle-3.png" data-mid="240402964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/06e80c9605d10ad26370515de94207ebbf39c3f2ebe1ada9eb41bfe055ba4b64/Circle-3.png" /> Look at UsAnnette Frost <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1233087af9b4f5517343722baa0cf4c53abee233b65b03e2cd11083aa4976d3/Circle-6.png" data-mid="240415002" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/a1233087af9b4f5517343722baa0cf4c53abee233b65b03e2cd11083aa4976d3/Circle-6.png" /> Paper CityEleanor Colligan <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbec294bcb21775c63ce6c3f7e95acca857e3d7beaff42f88ff9bc88a958665f/Circle-4.png" data-mid="240415005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/fbec294bcb21775c63ce6c3f7e95acca857e3d7beaff42f88ff9bc88a958665f/Circle-4.png" /><img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baa3e66226a953b618acb2bf4886b5bf78a7f22853e29dbf91ab540efae58ba8/golden-circle.png" data-mid="65721008" border="0" style="width: 400px; height: 400px; display: none;"> Selected Works Anya Kashina <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a9c4e08d0dbdda5989a89026e7bb43ab581769b18bb3659bca0ae8ec547e3a5/Circle-7.png" data-mid="240402976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/5a9c4e08d0dbdda5989a89026e7bb43ab581769b18bb3659bca0ae8ec547e3a5/Circle-7.png" /> Living HistoryDavid Ehmcke <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c004c2206f8c549dd1be10471726f7c2110f0a33f8b5b10fcc24b5da1008948d/Circle-8.png" data-mid="240402977" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/c004c2206f8c549dd1be10471726f7c2110f0a33f8b5b10fcc24b5da1008948d/Circle-8.png" /> End of a Line Annalise Hagen <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5af9c287ff9aa27b57e65a51653177085adefa502c77b14284ccf2f7baa9ee92/Circle-9.png" data-mid="240402978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/5af9c287ff9aa27b57e65a51653177085adefa502c77b14284ccf2f7baa9ee92/Circle-9.png" /> Best of Luck Natalie Homer <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddfcdda2ec5984de304d7915bf7050d89cf483fe7575c4fe992463a0435bb88e/Circle-10.png" data-mid="240402979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/ddfcdda2ec5984de304d7915bf7050d89cf483fe7575c4fe992463a0435bb88e/Circle-10.png" /> Never Came BackPhillip Pratt <img width="396" height="400" width_o="396" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/311335e2fa579c9c89a6c1815444cc73a66a96f96d2d7179d8a219b1661652d6/Circle-11.png" data-mid="240402980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/396/i/311335e2fa579c9c89a6c1815444cc73a66a96f96d2d7179d8a219b1661652d6/Circle-11.png" /> PrayerFlannery McAleer <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2c05baa67d66b3c8f219f58671d5b88f0b377277f38df03fd6ba9feccb51a4e/Circle-12.png" data-mid="240402982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/e2c05baa67d66b3c8f219f58671d5b88f0b377277f38df03fd6ba9feccb51a4e/Circle-12.png" /> Curriculum VitaeXitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza transl. Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f621abb1c728f5fd5326c06088f0ea3ea40e79fd44396f86c3f0d7ecea04e698/Circle-13.png" data-mid="240402983" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/f621abb1c728f5fd5326c06088f0ea3ea40e79fd44396f86c3f0d7ecea04e698/Circle-13.png" /> SutraLang Kanai <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12df2a2414d9ae600618c44711444059285a918549325744ca942098de04ca2f/Circle-19.png" data-mid="240514514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/12df2a2414d9ae600618c44711444059285a918549325744ca942098de04ca2f/Circle-19.png" /> Double TakeAnya Kashina <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/321058918bf9ea6cbcbdaae064f95c78fc0a5d7dfb437dbfee9f558cc8044af7/Circle-15.png" data-mid="240402985" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/321058918bf9ea6cbcbdaae064f95c78fc0a5d7dfb437dbfee9f558cc8044af7/Circle-15.png" /><img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baa3e66226a953b618acb2bf4886b5bf78a7f22853e29dbf91ab540efae58ba8/golden-circle.png" data-mid="65721008" border="0" style="width: 400px; height: 400px; display: none;"> Get LostDavid Ehmcke <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41a1f51c0257e65166135166fdd88c2984b5b846ed5d1d590b8c5ed22fd9ca64/Circle-16.png" data-mid="240402987" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/41a1f51c0257e65166135166fdd88c2984b5b846ed5d1d590b8c5ed22fd9ca64/Circle-16.png" /> Danny Tells Me My Favorite WordsAnnalise Hagen <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4d57509fdd3389992b048f37b9667787c0c1e7c84d497424e704216f3f92841/Circle-17.png" data-mid="240403039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/c4d57509fdd3389992b048f37b9667787c0c1e7c84d497424e704216f3f92841/Circle-17.png" /> A Strange Work PartyNellie Bridge <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f2aa2f2564cdeef423ec4bb27dfe4fcd69a3a7ca48b04095132b9aca9dc04e3/Circle-18.png" data-mid="240403067" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/7f2aa2f2564cdeef423ec4bb27dfe4fcd69a3a7ca48b04095132b9aca9dc04e3/Circle-18.png" /> English to Spanish to English Version of an Interview with Ai HasegawaXitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza transl. Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be10634de33569fdc3d7a07aee70ba56f4972f6143ce2084b8960fd2b4e6a26a/Circle-20.png" data-mid="240478990" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/be10634de33569fdc3d7a07aee70ba56f4972f6143ce2084b8960fd2b4e6a26a/Circle-20.png" /> Possibility Lang Kanai <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34d19a4067d7cb92319f8ccca592c7ef2cfc5858d156ba1540a7fcbe4145c4d7/Circle-14.png" data-mid="240514626" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/34d19a4067d7cb92319f8ccca592c7ef2cfc5858d156ba1540a7fcbe4145c4d7/Circle-14.png" /> snowfall Juliet Ramsden <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3864976989b798263a2cff1fe33eb495a79aff81d6a66da22cd7ed5faa5aad2b/Circle-5.png" data-mid="240403070" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/3864976989b798263a2cff1fe33eb495a79aff81d6a66da22cd7ed5faa5aad2b/Circle-5.png" /> CassiopeiaAlexandra Kamerling Interview Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Illustrations byAnya Kashina https://volumepoetry.com/VOL-5-ISSUE-1 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:39:33 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/VOL-5-ISSUE-1 VOL 5&nbsp; ISSUE 1 <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df3da204a82b965db2a4f965eeb2e92a8f5365fd48e8cd8d94867c3a0d681860/ILLATEASE_2021_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231675678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/df3da204a82b965db2a4f965eeb2e92a8f5365fd48e8cd8d94867c3a0d681860/ILLATEASE_2021_circle-copy.png" /> Today, Here Brandon Wint <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd5c70c54d4589e6e63348ea87b9bce83312184a488adfa2217e1229530ca3a3/FORGETTINGVIRGINIA_2024_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671627" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/cd5c70c54d4589e6e63348ea87b9bce83312184a488adfa2217e1229530ca3a3/FORGETTINGVIRGINIA_2024_circle-copy.png" /> “I was dealt some lovely dreams last night. I was rich, pliant...”Ismar Tirelli Neto <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b788d604efbe641faabe2eafa24aba49b16c199621de9bbcf8856a80209df6b0/HOMEIII_2024_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671629" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/b788d604efbe641faabe2eafa24aba49b16c199621de9bbcf8856a80209df6b0/HOMEIII_2024_circle-copy.png" /> Feast of the Holy InnocentsLisa Raatikainen <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48000f5f3ecd891168c1164ed3e0544e19fc3bd612676d1a0d58db7e22773f3f/FIGHTINGLILIES_2024_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231675677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/48000f5f3ecd891168c1164ed3e0544e19fc3bd612676d1a0d58db7e22773f3f/FIGHTINGLILIES_2024_circle-copy.png" /> Letters to and fromEm Teaze <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4cdd2e27512267764c201b82b110189b5e473ce7512173dd9fb69636cccd064/IMG_4400_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671632" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/f4cdd2e27512267764c201b82b110189b5e473ce7512173dd9fb69636cccd064/IMG_4400_circle-copy.png" /><img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baa3e66226a953b618acb2bf4886b5bf78a7f22853e29dbf91ab540efae58ba8/golden-circle.png" data-mid="65721008" border="0" style="width: 85.6486px; height: 85.6486px; display: none;"> For Saraí Lauren Peat <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/317044a227fc794a4e4d90073c784eca60dc788fccc24276575f125fcd0c8dec/IMG_4753-circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/317044a227fc794a4e4d90073c784eca60dc788fccc24276575f125fcd0c8dec/IMG_4753-circle-copy.png" /> Selected WorksJessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/410bb975c76b54251b716dc3182bc924b40cbb16244da2d2d32305dad66263e1/JFGL_crush_circle.png" data-mid="231671634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/410bb975c76b54251b716dc3182bc924b40cbb16244da2d2d32305dad66263e1/JFGL_crush_circle.png" /> Cape May James Croal Jackson <img width="1733" height="1733" width_o="1733" height_o="1733" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5562e25e5c005863ee50da04282b0b4e04dfbadf488bdbc7800648b73aeae9e1/Untitled-1.png" data-mid="233012458" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5562e25e5c005863ee50da04282b0b4e04dfbadf488bdbc7800648b73aeae9e1/Untitled-1.png" /> I wrote Olivia Elias transl. Jérémy Victor Robert <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e52c72ccaad7b8f1345517ee2502a94c9d74c2449a8906379312fc5d6d88ae83/JFGL_falsegestures_circle.png" data-mid="231671644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/e52c72ccaad7b8f1345517ee2502a94c9d74c2449a8906379312fc5d6d88ae83/JFGL_falsegestures_circle.png" /> Minor American CitiesJeremiah Moriarty <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c85e9e2b669f9815a786706c1c9f9da24086160e7a3e925eae96bc45f83ff848/LASTWORD_2024_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/c85e9e2b669f9815a786706c1c9f9da24086160e7a3e925eae96bc45f83ff848/LASTWORD_2024_circle-copy.png" /> When I dream of you I dream of dyingEm Teaze <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7811ed7033293849c9da1005c7bef7e1caa0c58e024f38c746b6d07d6bbc685a/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-07_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/7811ed7033293849c9da1005c7bef7e1caa0c58e024f38c746b6d07d6bbc685a/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-07_circle-copy.png" /> a new kind of musicJake Goldwasser <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cb7ab0ff493373b2b6ac0afd65b26c11fade623e4d2da465302d50406efce81/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-09_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/9cb7ab0ff493373b2b6ac0afd65b26c11fade623e4d2da465302d50406efce81/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-09_circle-copy.png" /> Aubade After ExtinctionChristine Larusso <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cceaebdfe470380d1c40e8692b313365ed68800157d5aa1aaa03143fc521811/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-15_circle-copy.png" data-mid="233010883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/9cceaebdfe470380d1c40e8692b313365ed68800157d5aa1aaa03143fc521811/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-15_circle-copy.png" /> Nothing to DoOlivia Elias transl. Kareem James Abu-Zeid <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4f233698522629868d364a86356ea6edff2ff642e84702e0e8ea5a0c6672cce/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-11_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/e4f233698522629868d364a86356ea6edff2ff642e84702e0e8ea5a0c6672cce/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-11_circle-copy.png" /><img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baa3e66226a953b618acb2bf4886b5bf78a7f22853e29dbf91ab540efae58ba8/golden-circle.png" data-mid="65721008" border="0" style="width: 85.6486px; height: 85.6486px; display: none;"> first snowLauren Peat <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3fa33c593de8f8e8d579874968e0814b3c625bf7b21d56f6cb09655ecacaeb8/Untitled-1-copy.png" data-mid="231674803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/d3fa33c593de8f8e8d579874968e0814b3c625bf7b21d56f6cb09655ecacaeb8/Untitled-1-copy.png" /> Pan and Nymph, Schenley PlazaJason Barry <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91784e2e7e9ca05101876c6bd67704579c206762a80512ead22b997e050ef42c/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-12_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/91784e2e7e9ca05101876c6bd67704579c206762a80512ead22b997e050ef42c/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-12_circle-copy.png" /> Walser (A Possession)Ismar Tirelli Neto <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdc841fcd3e7b23a1bf919eee2369c7573ad8d69fb0f9769012938d5c86a1aff/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-14_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671657" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/bdc841fcd3e7b23a1bf919eee2369c7573ad8d69fb0f9769012938d5c86a1aff/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-14_circle-copy.png" /> ConfessionColin Pope <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e96df514febbeabc9f0ac17c3a682e1af2cfea821f7a7e411756f5e734d4eb3/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-10_circle-copy.png" data-mid="233010901" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/6e96df514febbeabc9f0ac17c3a682e1af2cfea821f7a7e411756f5e734d4eb3/Trotter---Sholer--Recall-10_circle-copy.png" /> LA Hallucinations Christine Larusso <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bc3f98134c8817bbc1298b834178024a3bd61537624669285aad83eaa5e4f21/UNTITLEDCAMERASHOP_2024_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231671955" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/3bc3f98134c8817bbc1298b834178024a3bd61537624669285aad83eaa5e4f21/UNTITLEDCAMERASHOP_2024_circle-copy.png" /> The Greatest Show Nicole Callihan <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa84eecf18631d5ede70f72b352fcaded5b38cadbfdaa1949208fc178d1e2c10/WHITEWASH_hires_2021_circle-copy.png" data-mid="231672021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/aa84eecf18631d5ede70f72b352fcaded5b38cadbfdaa1949208fc178d1e2c10/WHITEWASH_hires_2021_circle-copy.png" /> Of a StoryD Eric Parkison Interview Brandon Wint &amp; Lauren Peat Interview Olivia Elias &amp; Jérémy Victor Robert Interview Jessica Frances Grégoire LancasterIllustrations byJessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster https://volumepoetry.com/O-Jen-Frantz Thu, 05 May 2022 11:11:38 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/O-Jen-Frantz <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42a316e3cf6a6612cd20bde1f9aaa4bd1e9dc3034123ce7f96d959d8ca65f799/1.-Landscape-with-Raincloud-b.jpg" data-mid="141776599" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/42a316e3cf6a6612cd20bde1f9aaa4bd1e9dc3034123ce7f96d959d8ca65f799/1.-Landscape-with-Raincloud-b.jpg" /> &nbsp; O. Jen Frantz You wave a little life. The egg is tall. The bowl is tall. By god, the world has grown. You can be mere and cupped, early to the horizon. You can say you were an animal, leading the myth quietly on. So adept at wasting time we called it god or love. The egg was first. You were second. Life itself has stood. Jen Frantz is a college dropout from Ohio. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Hobart, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and Washington Square Review. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she is poetry editor of The Iowa Review. https://volumepoetry.com/Violence-and-Splendor-Hannah-Bonner Sun, 01 May 2022 10:53:58 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/Violence-and-Splendor-Hannah-Bonner <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4feaf4f48518f0aa06605e500e030713c838c3a54c85592f834dd398452e9534/2.-Cradled-c.jpg" data-mid="141776789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/4feaf4f48518f0aa06605e500e030713c838c3a54c85592f834dd398452e9534/2.-Cradled-c.jpg" /> &nbsp; Violence and Splendor Hannah Bonner I asked nothing of you – remember that. All my wants, when I first voice them, fossilize, porous as pumice. See how each artifact gleams under your attention beneath the boxed glass. Bergson called the body an office, Dickinson, an ottoman. I claim museum, as it has claimed me. You call again tonight and promise exactly nothing. Salt, steel, diorama – setting announces the epoch’s anatomy. There is no giving, or getting back, among the rocks and ash. Hannah Bonner's poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Bear Review, Pigeon Pages, Rattle, The Carolina Quarterly, The Pinch Journal, The Vassar Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, TriQuarterly, and Two Peach. She has an MA in Film Studies and is pursuing a creative nonfiction MFA at The University of Iowa. She currently serves as the poetry editor for Brink. https://volumepoetry.com/Home-School-Jordan-Stewart Sun, 01 May 2022 10:43:26 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/Home-School-Jordan-Stewart <img width="978" height="978" width_o="978" height_o="978" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7424fb34ef4dd6d5af72f22572d068a75cc52dc14d7da460f1162f3646cfd940/3.-Roughground-c.jpg" data-mid="141776881" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/978/i/7424fb34ef4dd6d5af72f22572d068a75cc52dc14d7da460f1162f3646cfd940/3.-Roughground-c.jpg" /> &nbsp; Home School Jordan Stewart She places a small red apple on the wooden dresser to her immediate left. She says that, for the rest of the day, that apple will be called a toothpick. Later that day in the garden, we are burying the second mailman of the week. She tells me that mailmen are sent to us occasionally to help us fertilize the soil and grow healthier flowers. That we must use every part of the mailman and she hands me another pair of blue cargo shorts. Inside, after supper we're sitting at the table eating freshly baked toothpick pie. She tells me I will start school tomorrow and that the classroom will be in the den. My teacher will look and sound exactly like her but will not actually be her. I lay awake that night, staring at the ceiling Thinking about what school will be like wondering what things I will learn, and if the teacher will like my cargo shorts. Jordan Stewart was born on the east coast of Canada. He lives there still with his wife and two daughters. He has had works published online and in print magazines all across North America. He has published two poetry collections and has had a collection of short stories published by Canada-based Loose Teeth Press. He is currently finishing his newest collection of poetry, which should be out later this year. https://volumepoetry.com/Sauna-2036-Dominique-Bernier-Cormier Thu, 05 May 2022 11:44:52 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/Sauna-2036-Dominique-Bernier-Cormier <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6353fdff038230f6a44bf85e86b25677d39a1069aa4360ecd00568d1798efaae/8.-Cat-in-Corner-b.jpg" data-mid="141779009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/6353fdff038230f6a44bf85e86b25677d39a1069aa4360ecd00568d1798efaae/8.-Cat-in-Corner-b.jpg" /> &nbsp; Sauna, 2036 Dominique Bernier-Cormier In the house we live in in this imaginary future, I’ve built a small sauna in the living room—between the fern and the therapeutic harp you play to keep the memories of animals at bay. I wanted to build a tanning bed with purple lights that made everyone look like Prince lying in his velvet coffin, but instead, I snapped the UV tubes and wrote HELP in neon across the snowy lawn. Now, we hold each other in the cedar box like twin fawns in a womb and take turns pouring water over the glowing stones until we can’t take the heat anymore. We try to remember the Finnish word for steam and where Finland used to be. We argue over what’s a machine and what’s not a machine. Is a sauna a machine? Is snow a machine? Was Prince a machine? Are we just water pouring machines, the two of us? In the laundry room, the washer blinks its row of gorgeous green eyes at us and announces that a new cycle has begun, that the door is now locked and the flooding will soon begin. Dear machine, dear snow, tell us something we don’t already know. Dominique Bernier-Cormier's first book of poetry, Correspondent, was published by Goose Lane Editions in 2018 and was nominated for the League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award. His second book, a bilingual collection of poems, translations and essays, will come out in 2023. https://volumepoetry.com/Machines-Hannah-Lowe Thu, 05 May 2022 10:53:59 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/Machines-Hannah-Lowe <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e06d4d2acb6fa5dc5cdc9213339b71337bea049e9b4b5b4e6b361704ab883200/11.-Blue-Arrangement-a.jpg" data-mid="141779028" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/e06d4d2acb6fa5dc5cdc9213339b71337bea049e9b4b5b4e6b361704ab883200/11.-Blue-Arrangement-a.jpg" /> &nbsp; Machines Hannah Lowe Easter Monday all I do is washing, stuffing the mouth of the machine, then tugging out, then hanging. How many beautiful dresses are needed for one life? Or lacy undies, whiter than white? All day I’m crying, my eyes gone sudsy. Pity-me tears are kind of lovely, kind of awful. I cry in cycles, steady rinse then spin. As soon as I’m dry, I cry again. Liz once said she wished her belly had a glass door like a washing machine so she could check her little sleeping baby, clean her mind of all the fear and fretting – but we’ve only got our eyes for screens, peering out, sometimes peering in. Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist, and academic. Her latest book, The Kids, a Poetry Book Society ‘Choice’ for Autumn, won the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named as one of 20 Next Generation poets. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (Periscope, 2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Two new chapbooks are forthcoming in May with Hercules Editions. She teaches Creative Writing at Brunel University.&nbsp;@hannahlowepoet https://volumepoetry.com/Back-Reflected-Hannah-Lowe Thu, 05 May 2022 10:59:27 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/Back-Reflected-Hannah-Lowe <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf890b4497ca9652f14c41e61791eea2a5abfe6de45656262ce51603acbdfabf/1.-Landscape-with-Raincloud-c.jpg" data-mid="141837666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/cf890b4497ca9652f14c41e61791eea2a5abfe6de45656262ce51603acbdfabf/1.-Landscape-with-Raincloud-c.jpg" /> &nbsp; Back, Reflected Hannah Lowe Rucksack I’ve carried all my life. Naked, it curves like a harp, or the fine pale handle of my Nanna’s teacups – white bone china, saved for best. Which man said my back was graceful? I think a decade has gone since last I looked, over the shoulder in the bathroom mirror. Back I often forget I’ve got. The B-side never got a look-in on my record player. When Emmy massages my back, I hear each knot call out like a musical note. Laptop! this one sings. Bad poems! sings another. What this or that man did. Deadlifts. Sorrow. But this back, reflected back, won’t speak – sleek and silent as a locked piano. Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and academic. Her latest book, The Kids, a Poetry Book Society ‘Choice’ for Autumn, won the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named as one of 20 Next Generation poets. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (Periscope, 2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Two new chapbooks are forthcoming in May with Hercules Editions. She teaches Creative Writing at Brunel University.&nbsp;@hannahlowepoet https://volumepoetry.com/Biography-Yuri-Andrukhovych Thu, 05 May 2022 11:16:38 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/Biography-Yuri-Andrukhovych <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93cc3e8bffe28194d7c272de03624114751e6f454435fb3cb6ba1a7aa45c353b/10.-Celebration-Table-a.jpg" data-mid="141837713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/93cc3e8bffe28194d7c272de03624114751e6f454435fb3cb6ba1a7aa45c353b/10.-Celebration-Table-a.jpg" /> &nbsp; Biography trans. John Hennessy and Ostap Kin&nbsp; Zynoviy Blum, king of tavern and market, an idol worshipped by rosy prostitutes, flew between merchants like a vampire sucking the trib from them like blood. He was greeted with a joyful “Vey mir!” &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With his smile, sweeter than molasses, he took them for their gold and their girls, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; until of course he crossed a line. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Soviets broke him out of prison— somehow he began to jabber in Russian, became a made man in the secret police. Up to his elbows in guts like a coroner, he learned to curse and drink vodka in the NKVD and later the MGB. John Hennessy is the author of two poetry collections, Bridge and Tunnel and Coney Island Pilgrims. He is the co-translator, with Ostap Kin, of A New Orthography, selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 2021, and co-winner of the Derek Walcott Prize, 2021. The poems published here are included in the forthcoming anthology Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute), edited and co-translated by Ostap Kin. Ostap Kin is an editor (and translator with John Hennessy) of Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (forthcoming from Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute) and New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poets Respond, and is the co-translator, with John Hennessy, of A New Orthography, selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, co-winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. With Vitaly Chernetsky, he translated Yuri Andrukhovych's Songs for a Dead Rooster. <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d9a5d7c55de2af021b503ce06caf4d94ce7f45412d446d479f5ef1361c5ad96/10.-Celebration-Table-a.jpg" data-mid="141837725" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/5d9a5d7c55de2af021b503ce06caf4d94ce7f45412d446d479f5ef1361c5ad96/10.-Celebration-Table-a.jpg" /> &nbsp; ЖИТТЄПИС Yuri Andrukhovych Зиновій Блюм, король шинків і яток, рожевих лярв улюблелий кумир, літав по крамарях, немов упир, і, ніби кров, смоктав із них податок. Його стрічали радісним «вей мір!». Під усмішкою, що солодша паток, він позбавляв їх золота й дівчаток, але, на жаль, порушив міру мір. З тюрми його звільнили вже совіти — сяк-так почав по-руському триндіти і висунув на службу сам себе. По лікті у кишках, немов анатом, навчився водку жрать, ругаться матом в енкаведе, а згодом емґебе. Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the most prominent and influential Ukrainian poets and writers. He has published more than a dozen poetry collections, fiction books, and collections of essays, and his work has been translated into many languages. His most recent collection of poems in English translation is Songs for a Dead Rooster (2018); his most recent collection of essays is My Final Territory (2018). Andrukhovych lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk. https://volumepoetry.com/Passion-Yuri-Andrukhovych Sun, 01 May 2022 11:13:49 +0000 Volume Poetry https://volumepoetry.com/Passion-Yuri-Andrukhovych <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7381163471a7dba0458526d14ba2d9dfd5678aab6d28dbc367c1124125dad36/9.-Things-c.jpg" data-mid="141837740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/c7381163471a7dba0458526d14ba2d9dfd5678aab6d28dbc367c1124125dad36/9.-Things-c.jpg" /> &nbsp; Passion trans. John Hennessy and Ostap Kin&nbsp; Mister butcher and mister musician sat down to play, the cards filthy, covered in grease. Obsession with winning obscured all else; outside the window, an uproar, a view. Everything would’ve been fine, except for the spade. It never showed up––the musician flipped out, he told himself: “Punch this guy right in the face. Look at that ugly mug.” And he smashed the butcher’s head with an iron. That guy won’t be selling any more meat, he’s lying on his back without a sound. The musician goes on forever, like he’s on a pilgrimage, accompanied by courteous cops, somewhere far away, probably to prison. John Hennessy is the author of two poetry collections, Bridge and Tunnel and Coney Island Pilgrims. He is the co-translator, with Ostap Kin, of A New Orthography, selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 2021, and co-winner of the Derek Walcott Prize, 2021. The poems published here are included in the forthcoming anthology Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute), edited and co-translated by Ostap Kin. Ostap Kin is an editor (and translator with John Hennessy) of Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (forthcoming from Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute) and New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poets Respond, and is the co-translator, with John Hennessy, of A New Orthography, selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, co-winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. With Vitaly Chernetsky, he translated Yuri Andrukhovych's Songs for a Dead Rooster. <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3058893c80ce2c924d33bbe2aa46d41a04134a9f81048b5dd89f987cf8061a58/9.-Things-c.jpg" data-mid="141837792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/3058893c80ce2c924d33bbe2aa46d41a04134a9f81048b5dd89f987cf8061a58/9.-Things-c.jpg" /> &nbsp; АЗАРТ Yuri Andrukhovych У карти, так обшмульгані, що аж, засіли пан різник і пан музика. Була спокуса виграшу велика, а за вікном був гомін і пейзаж. І все зійшло б гаразд, якби не піка. Вона не йшла — музика впав у раж, сказав собі: «Ти в пику його вмаж! Дивись, яка паскедна в нього пика!». І різнику в чоло зацідив прасом. Той більш не буде торгувати м'ясом, він горілиць лежить і ні мур-мур. У супроводі ґречних поліцаїв музика йде навік, мов у Почаїв, кудись далеко, певно, у тюрму. Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the most prominent and influential Ukrainian poets and writers. He has published more than a dozen poetry collections, fiction books, and collections of essays, and his work has been translated into many languages. His most recent collection of poems in English translation is Songs for a Dead Rooster (2018); his most recent collection of essays is My Final Territory (2018). Andrukhovych lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk.