Name: Jeff HaynesPosition: Editor-in-ChiefGenre: I'm a poet, dawg.Turn-ons (Literary): I like poems that are verbose and in-your-face. I like poems that push boundaries. I like poems that aren't scared to defy our poetic expectations. I like poems that never wave a white flag of surrender—poems that aren't afraid to fail. Contemporary, contemporary, contemporary is my … Continue reading Meet Your Editor
Jeff Haynes
Perfect Poem. Population: Zero
Too often it happens, I believe, as poets, we believe that there is a road-map that one can follow in the creation of the “perfect” poem. Say, if we go up Linebreak 55 and get off on Enjambment 2, and go North on Stanza Boulevard, then we'll find the almost microscopic village of Perfect Poem. … Continue reading Perfect Poem. Population: Zero
Five Horror Flicks for Halloween
It is October, and I'm thinking about Halloween. Call me morbid, but it's my favorite time of the year. Like Christmas, Halloween has its own magic. As a kid in Southern Illinois, I lived for that one night where I could be somebody, anything other than myself. But, of course, with growing older comes sacrifice. … Continue reading Five Horror Flicks for Halloween
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