Redhand coleus12/25/2022 Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Review, 32 Poems, and Copper Nickel. He lives, teaches, and writes from somewhere in Nigeria. He’s Poetry Chapbooks Editor for Praxis Magazine Online. Recent works appear in Kissing Dynamite, Glass Poetry, The Gerard Kraak Anthology 2019, The Shore, The Muse (University of Nigeria’s literary journal), Agbowo, 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Fresh Air Poetry, and elsewhere. He’s a recipient of the inaugural Brittle Paper Award for Poetry in 2017, and a finalist for the 2019 Gerard Kraak Award. JK Anowe, Igbo-born poet and teacher, is author of the poetry chapbooks The Ikemefuna Tributaries: a parable for paranoia (Praxis Magazine Online, 2016) and Sky Raining Fists (Madhouse Press, 2019). I am so excited to follow the careers of these fine poets. It is my sincere hope that the poems here are ones you will return to often. These are poems of transmutation that will change the way readers understand the world around them. The following poems boldly dance between the beautiful and the grotesque, the pristine and the broken, reminding us that even these kinds of distinctions often live in a fraught and liminal space and are subject to unexpected mutability. In this feature you will find a fabulous array of poetic approaches by poets with very different life/artistic experiences informing their verse. I learned so much not only through their work, but through their insightful answers to the interview questions. Below are twelve startling poems by six exceptional poets. JN It is with deep honor I introduce the second installment of this feature.
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