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Night is this Anyway investigates the love, desire, and pain of the LGBTQ experience in the deep South. These poems move from the dazzling charm of new love, through the terror of discovering one's identity as a woman, a queer lover, to that of a parent and a writer, a survivor of "knife storms."

Jennifer Badot brings a clear-eyed and earthbound lyrical power to the experience of childhood sexual trauma, its often-concomitant phenomenon of adolescent promiscuity, and the grief and rage that roils beneath it all. The girl-then-woman who figures in these potent poems is a "wild knower" who desires to speak amidst societal, generational, and internalized silencing. Over the course of the book, "the poet locates herself" and speaks. In these vivid and often startling poems, Badot writes into the counterpoint and simultaneity of violation and healing, betrayal and devotion, and tenderness and rage. Ultimately, A Violet A Jennifer is Badot's fierce reclamation of self and an offering to the Beauty that saved her and saves us all.

Written in the wake of the poet''s mother''s Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, The Things tackles not only the keen anticipation of grief and loss but also its arrival and aftermath. These lyrical and searingly direct poems navigate through the empty spaces left behind by death and chart a path from sorrow back into the physical world. Oaks, the author of Little What (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2019), captures and honors his mother''s irrepressible personality while recounting his own process of inheriting and letting go of her "things".

Good Harbor is a book of poems about trying to provide shelter for the ones we love. In poems rooted in New England and New York, Max Heinegg writes about parenting and teaching, navigating the rough waters of life to find safety in the harbors of home and community. Max's poems are grounded in places and real-life experience, but also draw on a lifelong passion for music, history, mythology, cooking, exploring nature, and a quarter-century in the classroom. His work reveals what is magical in the mundane and the complexity of the expected.

"In Martha McCollough's Wolf Hat Iron Shoes, we witness a deeply observant and questioning mind guide a bright pointer across the planetarium of our current and pending disasters-from dystopia and pandemic to colliding galaxies. What's most affecting is the bravely undefended lyricism this poet deploys to scout an era in which "all the home-come chickens / weigh the branches into downward arcs." The solitary speaker into whose ruminations we enter in these impeccably paced poems makes measurable the weight felt by one individual "open to the sky / a humming / a glass dome[,]" and we recognize that burden as our own. -Steven Riel"

"A Can of Pinto Beans" by Robbie Gamble is a startling poetry collection recounting the author's work with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization in Arizona working to serve migrants..

"Were the paleolithic painted caves the first thought bubbles, motion pictures, or transcendental affordances - spaces where homo sapiens projected their minds and emotions onto stone? Chalk Song is a collaboration of three lyric voices inspired by Werner Herzog's film Cave of Forgotten Dreams - part animal cry, an echo of footsteps, scrape of stick and bone. Imagine poetry as a chain of tool making, hand-to-hand, voice-to-voice. The poems breach the membrane of the cave wall to trace the otherness of the human voice at the source of our linguistic imagination, from its first expression to the media of our post-modern world"--

Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal featuring poetry, flash fiction, and art. In this issue, Jenna Le, Jennifer Franklin, Jennifer Martelli, Richard Hoffman, Anne Elezabeth Pluto, and others. Cover art by Ashley Parker Owens and designed by Martha McCollough.

"What strange mercy I sew with dull pins," says Florence Nightingale in Bernadette McComish''s fascinating new chapbook. In spare, deadly accurate lines--a nurse''s work in Crimean winter is "closing eyes/frozen open"--McComish will show you the antipodes of the human condition: our capacity for suffering, our ability to love in the face of horror, and the silence at the heart of our lives. Florence Nightingale''s Lost Log is a brilliant achievement." -Dennis Nurkse Florence Nightingale''s Lost log is an imagined affair between history''s most famous nurse and a soldier during the Crimean War. Nightingale unapologetically gave up romantic relationships to be in service of others. In these lost pages she reveals a longing and passion for connection, if only in her mind. 

Rikki Santer's dazzling How to Board a Moving Ship makes the familiar brilliantly strange again. Neighbors are bears in "golden vanilla coats," garden gnomes wander, adolescence is electric and ever present, headlines promise life on other planets, and the cruel pageantry of our government is loud as a carnival. Between the lights and neighborhoods and catwalks, loss lives here, too, as when Santer describes her mother: "the palindrome of my mother's / chest scars, targets where her breasts used to be." Santer is both a magician and our Virgil, guiding us through each vignette, whether it's a vision from childhood - "memories wash / lean in the tides-red rover, red rover" - or "the politics of textile" and the splendor and harm of fashion. Santer invites us to marvel and reminds us that even in an unpredictable and painful world, there is still so much wonder ready for an audience.-Ruth Awad, author of Set to Music a Wildfire.

"Collection of modern lyric narratives"--

Chloe Yelena Miller''s Viable is the story of childbearing in the twenty-first century, when mothers are held to an impossible standard of producing perfect pregnancies, and an early miscarriage can haunt future motherhood. Many women will identify with Miller''s difficult yet common experiences of anxiety, love, and loss.

Lily Poetry Review is an international poetry journal/anthology featuring art, flash fiction and poetry. Featuring Kathleen Aguero, Michael ST Germaine, Jenne Le, Gloria Monaghan, Nam Nguyen, Sarah Dickenson Snyder, MK Sturdevant, Marcia Karp, Eric E Hyett, Jennifer Martelli