Margarita Serafimova was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2017. She was awarded a merit-based fellowship by Summer Literary Seminars as one of fifty runners-up in their 2018 poetry contest. Margarita has three collections in Bulgarian. Her work appears in Agenda Poetry, London Grip New Poetry, Trafika Europe, European Literature Network, The Journal, A-Minor, Waxwing, Nixes Mate Review, StepAway, Ink, Sweat and Tears, HeadStuff, Minor Literatures, The Writing Disorder, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Noble/ Gas Quarterly, Origins Journal, miller’s pond, Obra/ Artifact, TAYO, Shot Glass Journal, Opiate, Poetic Diversity, Novelty Magazine, Pure Slush, Harbinger Asylum, Punch, Tuck, Futures Trading, Ginosko, Peacock Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, Liquid Imagination, and many other places. Some of her work: https://www.facebook.com/MargaritaISerafimova/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel.
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The evening port
was passing into the earth.
It was impossible to be outside the blue.
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Resurrection
I looked at the water.
It was the book of life.
After that, I…
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to be
as asleep
as a father’s
left leg
as a birthday
for a window
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some of what is there, for the upcoming volume fourth:
Susannah Nevison & Molly McCully Brown:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/28/persons-susannah-nevison-molly-mccully-brown-poem/
Rosemarie Dombrowski:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/07/person-rosemarie-dombrowski-six-poems/
Jenny Sadre-Orafai:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/25/person-jenny-sadre-orafai-three-poems/
Lydia Renfro:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/16/person-lydia-renfro-two-poems/
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some recent reflections:
on Date Palms, on Pointillism, by Sophia Naz:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/04/date-palms-pointillism-poetry-sophia-naz/
on Tremor, by Marisol Baca:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/01/tremor-poems-marisol-baca/
on Dark Horse, by Kristina Marie Darling:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/27/dark-horse-poems-kristina-marie-darling/
on In This Quiet Church Of Night, I Say Amen by Devin Kelly:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/24/in-this-quiet-church-of-night-i-say-amen-poems-devin-kelly/
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horror movies are all the same.
babies can’t get amnesia.
I once pointed a starting gun at the head of a thing that wasn’t looking.
sleep is the christ of the mind.
between the house of the first suicide
and the house of the second
there’s one
with a dog door.
the moms all work at the same ghost jail.
the dads say things like
/ finally a parrot I can hear / & / in hell
nobody steps
on their reading
glasses.
the dream is there we put our mouths on. our hands.
the dream
that was nest.
brothers dressed like jesus
brush their teeth
and sisters
keep a tender
thumb.
under the nothing
made in my image
the infant
clones itself
to sleep.
I could go
for a glass of water.
a glass of nowhere.
really, spider?
all that work
the hand of god
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Date Palms
poems, Sophia Naz
City Press, June 2017
Pointillism
Poems, Sophia Naz
Copper Coin, 2017
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In the poems of Sophia Naz, the creatures have dress codes and the angels hang eyesight’s laundry. Naz sees double, says double. Has two words for every language. As disappearance might draw the crowds away from abandonment, this poet misses more than home and raises the message bottle, broken, to all that is vocal and vexed.
While the collection Date Palms polls the ghost vote on the slow-burn of miracle, Pointillism summons woman as the only darkness left to approve night’s parole. Both collections take seriously their toying, and nurture wordplay from glow to revelation. These verses speak not only of, but also to, those who wear silence as a badge to call it mouth. And so deepen the beauty all anger should have.
By such roadside flares, readers may make a…
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in a puppet show
about washing
my son’s
feet, or waving down
the ice cream truck
with her bible, or
as farewell
to nothing’s
church
of neither
kingsoftrain 