Baby Boy

cw/tw: drug abuse, suicidal ideation, graphic description of imagined death The last time I walked this far I was a … More

First Cut: Interview with Roy Christopher

The seventh book in the First Cut Poetry series, Abandoned Accounts: Poems 2020 – 2021 by Roy Christopher, was released … More

First Cut: Interview with John Bowie

The sixth book in the First Cut Poetry series, Dead Birds & Sinking Ships (Happy Little Tales of Melancholy Madness) … More

First Cut Poetry – 30 writing prompts #NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo

Throughout April, I tweeted a poetry writing prompt from the @FirstCutPoetry account to (hopefully) encourage people who write 30 poems … More

When I First Bled – Commended Winner in The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition 2021

I’m so excited to share this news with you… My poem ‘When I First Bled’ is a commended winner in … More

First Cut: Interview with Gabriel Hart

The 12th book in the First Cut Poetry series, Hymns from the Whipping Post by the multi-talented Gabriel Hart, was … More

First Cut: Interview with William R. Soldan

The second book in the First Cut Poetry series, So Fast, So Close by William R. Soldan, was released one … More

First Cut: Interview with Stephen J. Golds

The first book in the First Cut Poetry series, Poems for Ghosts in Empty Tenement Windows I Thought I Saw … More

‘AN INTERVIEW WITH POET SUPERSTAR HLR BY STEPHEN J. GOLDS’

https://punknoirmagazine.com/2021/07/24/an-interview-with-poet-superstar-hlr-by-stephen-j-golds-2/ This time last year, I was trying to talk the editor of an Indie Crime Press into letting me … More

Portrait of the Poet as a Hot Mess by HLR

My micro-chapbook, Portrait of the Poet as a Hot Mess, is now available to download and read for free via … More