Anne Harding Woodworth and The Skinny Poetry Anthology

Anne Harding Woodworth’s poetry is touching, wrenching, and Trouble (to borrow from the title of her forthcoming book), in the way that great art often tends to be. To that end, her work in The Skinny Poetry Anthology is as precious as gravity.

 

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Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of six books of poetry and four chapbooks. Her seventh book, Trouble, will appear in late 2020. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, and is on the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., where she lives.

Tom Laichas in The Skinny Poetry Anthology

So yes, I think it would be fair to say that the poetry of Tom Laichas possesses imagery as rich as any silver screen storytelling frame. It’s haunting and magical. Certainly, he also keeps a great deal of California brightness under his hat–and now in the freshly-inked pages The Skinny Poetry Anthology. – t

 

Tom Laichas’s recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in 3.1Venice, Ambit, Masque & Spectacle, Big Window Review and elsewhere. His first collection, Empire of Eden, is due out in 2020 from High Window Press (UK).

Shaggy Flores heating up TSPA

The work of Jaime “Shaggy” Flores in The Skinny Poetry Anthology is fire. To be sure, this poet does with seeming ease what few other writers can do at all–and in two languages. CLICK HERE TO ORDER your copy of TSPA today.

A Sneak Peak from from The Skinny Poetry Anthology: “I Ask My Grandfather Why He Won’t Speak English” by Maura Alia Badji

I Ask My Grandfather Why He Won’t Speak English

He says, I keep my country in my mouth.
Exile
Sicilian-Ethiopian
Intersection
Blood
Exile
Loyal
Tongued
Vigilant
Exile
I keep my country in my mouth, he says.

Maura Alia Badji
6/2/2016

Maura Alia Badji is a poet/writer/ESL teacher. Her writing has appeared in Aeolian Harp, The Delaware Review, Pirene’s Fountain, The Buffalo News, The Phoenix Soul, Liberated Muse, Cobalt, The Wise Woman, WELTER, The Good Men Project, This City Is a Poem, Barely South Review, and other notable publications. Badji lives in Virginia Beach, with her son, Ibrahim.

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“I Never Told You” and “A Year Later” by Elizabeth Mercurio

I Never Told You

there was another suicide attempt
smoke
womb
engine
runs
smoke
warmth
whiskey
womb
smoke
another suicide attempt. there. was.

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A Year Later

You swallowed pills down the pipe of your throat
strangers
in
scrubs
words
strangers
you
can’t
understand
strangers
Down the pipe of your throat, you swallowed pills

Elizabeth Mercurio
12/10/2019

Elizabeth Mercurio’s chapbook, Doll is forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books in January of 2020. She earned an MFA in poetry from The Solstice Low-Residency Program of Pine Manor College. Her work has appeared in, Third Point Press, Philadelphia Stories, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The Literary Nest, Fledgling Rag, and Lily Poetry Review.