It’s easy to forget the opening line of “Nastic Movements,” the first poem of In Another Country by Andrea Jurjevic, is “Sweetness, back home.” The sweet in this case is more the elusive, fatal beauty of the familiar than any saccharine indulgence. In “Nastic Movements,” fatal threats are always near “like a snake around a […]
Jesse Breite
June 15, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Jesse Breite’s recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Tinderbox, Poetry Northwest, Terrain, and Rhino. His first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. Jesse teaches high school in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and two kids. More at jessebreite.com.
“Killing Orpheus” by Forester McClatchey
June 15, 2026 by Leave a Comment
In the titular poem of Forester McClatchey’s debut poetry collection, Killing Orpheus, the poet-prophet struggles to play a satisfactory song to the masses. From the start, we feel the audience wants sordid entertainment. When “sickle-girl” moves in, the crowd hushes: “Each cut she makes is a marvel of efficiency.” The crowd is drawn into the […]