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#CopingWith: 13 New York Poets Changing the Lit Scene

by CCM March 9, 2017
written by CCM

We all could stand to read more poetry. I say this as a poet who is immersed in poetry daily. You can never have too much of it–and personally, I don’t understand why more people don’t read poetry more. It’s short, which means you can digest a poem (the first time) on the subway, on a walk, while taking a break on work, etc. It’s all very momentary. Of course, this doesn’t mean you can’t go back to the poem later, and reread it with new eyes.

This is why I’m rounding up 13 New York poets whose work I love and adore–who are challenging our views on sexuality, gender, race, identity, and more. We can always cope with more poetry, am I right?

1. David Tomas Martinez – The Only Mexican (Poetry Foundation)
2. Jason Koo – No Longer See (Prelude)
3. Lisa Marie Basile – Untitled (Spork)
4. Monica Lewis – First Kiss (The Boiler Journal)
5. Katie Longofono – The Outline (Tinderbox Poetry Journal)
6. ​Shamar Hill – My Father Tells Me (Brooklyn Poets)
7. Morgan Parker – If You Are Over Staying Woke (Poetry Foundation)
8. Omotara James –  Three Women / Two Transfers and a Token / One Reincarnation (The Poetry Project)
9. Lynn Melnick – Landscape with Happily Ever After (Poets.org)
10. Nathan McClain – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore (District Lit)
11. Saeed Jones – Kudzu (Poets.org)
12. Candace Williams – Black Sonnet (Sixth Finch)
13. Amy King – Perspective (Poetry Foundation)


Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (2016, ELJ Publications), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions) and the editor of “A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault” (CCM, 2017). They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of their writing has appeared in Prelude, Apogee, Spork The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, The James Franco Review, and elsewhere. They also teach workshops at Brooklyn Poets.


March 9, 2017
News

NOW AVAILABLE: The Quarter 2 2016 Catalogue

by CCM June 28, 2016
written by CCM

LBoBCover_1-copy“Justin Sirois has some really important things to say, and we need to listen. The Last Book of Baghdad is raw, riveting and revealing. Sirois is a master storyteller with the rare ability to highlight the perspectives of both the oppressed and oppressors. I guarantee that soldiers, policy makers and people who love literature alike will benefit, appreciate and learn from The Last Book of Baghdad.”
–D Watkins, author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up

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carefulmountaincover“Sara June Woods poems turn love letters into investigations. By treating her subjects with sincere admiration and wonder, she seeks out answers within a transitory world that may never answer: handholding becomes a flood, a burning field becomes a home, a girl stuck on a ferris wheel becomes a thing for birds to fly through. Careful Mountain regards the slivers of the world as not only parts of a whole, but the whole thing itself.”
–Chelsea Hodson, author of Pity the Animal

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Gaijin.cover.wip.june08-FINAL“And what is the measure of self inside grief? Jordan Okumura’s novel Gaijin is a body song. By weaving stories of loss and myth, Okumura brings an identity to life, half real, half imagined. I was mesmerized from start to finish.”
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Small Backs of Children

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LangsonHalved“Remember to Never Get Better is Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers but on the page, written by an Emily Dickinson if she had been locked out of her house for her whole life instead of locking herself inside of it. I am in love, and I am finally starting to say the word poetry again.”
–Giancarlo DiTrapano, editor of Tyrant Books

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save“Equal parts vulnerable, logical, affirming, and schematic, In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse is a frothing workbook with ‘Floating fractals everywhere.’ Like a vending machine stocked with formal innovation, fabulist imagery, and rigorous self-examination, Zaikowski drops goodies all the way through. This is a must for anyone invested in how a self processes the world–and how the world processes a self.”

—Amy King, author of The Missing Museum, I Want to Make You Safe, and others

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ifonly2“Andrew Miller’s If Only the Names Were Changed is the immensity of self turned into sharp, dangerous literature. The world/mirror inside the author has been dissected and is being offered for consumption, but not without a warning: this is brutal, sad writing that’s been touched by death, drugs, booze, heartache, and enough uncertainty and self doubt to make it as venomous as it is necessary, powerful, and true.”
–Gabino Iglesias, author of Zero Saints

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June 28, 2016
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