#five:2:one

[lifeinpoetry]

i’m disgusted with myself / for loving everything about to leave

Dylan Krieger, from “Snow-day statuary,” published in FIVE:2:ONE

[bostonpoetryslam]

I’m very interested in how form plays a role in the reading of a poem, how a reader learns to take in a poem based on how it appears on the page. I approach line breaks very seriously, perhaps too seriously, but I love the idea that in a poem, the world can hinge on the space between words from one line to the next.

Eloisa Amezcua, interviewed by Khalyspo for Five:2:One

[legionofwildthoughts]

Here is the palimpsest of all you thought life was going to be.

Story time!

My flash fiction “Sharp Shiny Things” is a part of #thesideshow column of FIVE:2:ONE Magazine.

It’s accompanied by an audio clip, where you can hear me read the story out loud!

[lifeinpoetry]

I want you to know that your femaleness is not weakness.         I want you to wear

your heart like a crown.

— E. Kristin Anderson, from “Poem for My Niece on Her Brother’s First Birthday,” published in FIVE:2:ONE

[bostonpoetryslam]

I’ve said love     & meant a command

Hannah Rego, “Thought Experiment with Comb & Candy,” published in FIVE:2:ONE

[bostonpoetryslam]

As a woman, particularly a woman of color, I am constantly looking for agency in spaces, both physical and abstract. I consider the page to be a space where I am in control of my agency or the agency of the speaker(s) in the poems—a place where I can be vulnerable and mean and happy and angry and and…I think this is not unlike form informing content, right? Like, the space we are in informs our reactions, both physical and emotional, to the space and to how we are perceived and how we perceive ourselves in that space.

Eloisa Amezcua, interviewed by Khalypso for Five:2:One

[lifeinpoetry]

i emerge from music – crushed & redrawn. breath molten. breath beaten out of me when you come to pray

Scherezade Siobhan, from “to dhikr, i,” published in FIVE:2:ONE

[lifeinpoetry]

The question: how can anyone in this world made of water crave more if something smarter and brighter in this universe wonders how human it could be when we aren’t enough.

Hannah Cohen, from “Ex-terrestrial” published in FIVE:2:ONE