by Helen Ivory | Nov 6, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Taḋg Paul is a queer poet, former LGBTQ+ rights campaigner, and software developer. In 2022, an injury rendered him quadriplegic. During hospitalization and rehab he rekindled a love for writing poetry. Today he volunteers at Fighting Words mentoring...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 5, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Beef Rendang Hey kid, this won’t mean that much to you yet, but I didn’t taste my first proper curry till at least twenty-one—if we ignore Friday-night jar-based meals your Gran assembled, a few sultanas mixed in to make things more exotic. And...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 4, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Aimless Aimless between Dropping out Of art school And absolutely no Friggin’ money For Kenyon I moved in with Television and doting Grandma in flowered Wallpapered rooms Sat on her porch Back and forth On the glider That Grandpa and I Hauled home...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 3, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
In the Dales after John Ashbery it’s a special kind of empty the footed earth, saluting the sky so much to see I took a photograph of you posed in the window seat punchy red slippers blurring rock and field the same window in five years?...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 2, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Spotted in a 7-Eleven in North Hollywood It beckons from between plasters and hand cream, the box bright-white, the lettering green. The first time I needed one, I visited a chemist in London, murmuring to a middle-aged man across the counter as...
