What the Body Keeps: An Interview with Nikki Wallschlaeger
Nikki Wallschlaeger talks with Apogee Journal Poetry Co-Editor, Muriel Leung about her poem, “This Body Keeps the Key,” which appears in Issue 07 of the journal.
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Poetry by Lara Mimosa Montes
from The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, October 2016)
Poetry by Seann Weir
“you will beg them to teach you how to pray“
CALL FOR WORK: Respond to #NoDAPL
The ongoing struggles of the Standing Rock Sioux community and the multitudinous tribes that have joined in protest in North Dakota has inspired Apogee Journal to facilitate and curate a folio about dispossession, resistance to dispossession, erasure, alienation and other forms of state-sanctioned violence against indigenous peoples.
Nonfiction by Janelle Fine
“When you bought your first binder-standing in front of the mirror did you also cry?”
Poetry by Jessica Morey-Collins
“It’s okay that you are afraid. It’s okay that you are afraid. It’s okay that you are afraid.”
Poetry by Monique Quintana
“we smile at the scissor slits in our face.”
The Felt House that Moves Us: A Conversation with Saretta Morgan
Apogee Journal Poetry Editors, Muriel Leung and Joey De Jesus, sit down with Saretta Morgan to discuss performance poetry, working across different mediums, and why “being published—speaking publicly—has a political weight.” An excerpt of Saretta’s larger work, “(Auto) Index” is now available in Apogee Journal’s Issue 07.
Poetry by Albert Abonado
“What I want is to be / obscene among relatives, to talk / blood and dick with sincerity.”
Poetry by Tara Stringfellow
A haunting prose poem by writer Tara Stringfellow.