There are so many magazine and literary journals out there, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and to not know where to start. For me, Twitter is a great place to discover new poems, poets, and journals I want to follow. Here are a few poems I read recently and loved. And yes, I discovered all of them via Twitter.

“People call her Bride of. The Bride of. Of this broken man
who made a broken man from parts of broken men.”

~ from The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options by Meghan Phillips, published by Strange Horizons

” —& so i am learning to call unpleasant histories by their real names—such as what i demand of love—and that i used to be a boy—to think that if this body was a prison what happened when i escaped”

~ from If the Body is a Prison-House Where is the Warden I Have Some Complaints About the Plumbing by Danielle Rose, published by Third Point Press

” In other news, this is the top. Weep for what little things
would make them jealous. I publish a poem”

~ from In Which I Am Accused of Sleeping My Way to the Top by Jill McDonough, published by The Threepenny Review

Caroline Earleywine and I went to the same MFA program and so I’ve had the good fortune of being acquainted with her poetry for a few years. Here’s one of her latest published poems:

“Today we drink champagne / for breakfast, straight / from the bottle. Fry eggs / and use the spatula / as a microphone.”

~ from A Toast by Caroline Earleywine, published by Glass: A Journal of Poetry

This following poem, To My Eldest at the Age of Burning, won the 2nd place in the 2019 Barren Poetry Contest. It’s easy to see why it made the shortlist.

“Can you hear them, Son – all those hopeless / cries in the orange night? I remember / yours at the threshold of your bedroom door – / how the disorder had become too much”

~ from To My Eldest at the Age of Burning by Benjamin Cutler, published by Barren Magazine

What poems have you read and loved lately? Leave me a comment with the link to the poem, I’d love to read it!