Columbus Creative Cooperative proudly presents an anthology of poetry by Ohio authors. Featuring renowned and debut authors alike, this magnificent collection of poetry, collected and edited by Hannah Stephenson, will please critical readers of all types. The poems in this collection explore every facet of the concept of the Ides: spring and the month of March, middles and centers, in-betweenness, senators, power, revolution and conspiracy, fortune-tellers, cautionary tales, ambition and sharp knives, among other things. On the Ides of March, the sea roars in celebration of the coming spring,...

The New Poetry from the Midwest anthology seeks to support and spotlight the flourishing crop of Midwestern writers who consistently produce work that is innovative, finely crafted, and strong in voice and the ability to connect. We do not intend to create a collection that presents our region as possessing a singular style or narrow range of content. "Midwestern" is a term that is vague and diverse in meaning, and we wish to seize on that. Send us poems that you love and are proud of: explosively or subtly powerful, committed to their own vision, sure-footed in their language. We want poems...

Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already-fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified. Cadence captures the poet's point of view as a new mother, revelling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity.