FALL 2022

Cover art: Jenny Kemp, Bell

In this Issue:

We present our Fall issue with 20 poems by 13 poets. Along with our readers, Michael Quattrone and Junious Ward, we’ve selected poems that engage with nature, art, relationships, and moments of contemplation. The poets closely observe their surroundings and reveal meaning through simile and metaphor that illuminates, delivering lasting lines and stanzas in lyric and narrative gems.

A number of the poems in this issue embrace formal structures, using them as containers for language that conveys crucial shifts in perception and understanding. We have two insect haiku by Ellen Peckham, three prose poems, and a sonnet by Richard Levine, as well as a few poems by Donna Vorreyer, Michael T. Young, Spencer Silverthorne, and Sunni Wilkinson. The poets of these and the rest of the poems in the issue find greater purpose and meaning in the relationships their speakers have with others and with their environments.

Finally, we are pleased to share that one third of Kissing Dynamite’s 2022 Micro-chapbook winners are TWR poets. We congratulate Jared Beloff, author of This is how we say “I love you” including the poem “How do you close out a life?” from our Spring 2021 issue; and M.A. Scott, author of Hunger, little sister, including this issue’s “Hope, little sister” and “Solitude, little sister.” Their chapbooks will be out this fall.

We appreciate the hard work of our contributors and hope that you love these poems as much as we do.