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​Fire Poetry

​Issue two: After the Fire

Editor's Note

Slivers of glass, the robin’s shattered egg, arrowhead and flint, forgotten things, lost relations. Pick up the broken mirror, maybe you’ve found a sliver of yourself, but keep looking.

This collection of the work of ten poets embodies both the excavation of the past and a confrontation with the present, this glaring moment of stark recognition. The poems need no shelter, no protection from prey or predator.

In addition to the featured work of Darren C. Demaree and our first Fire Folio, featuring selections from Nomi Stone's "Stranger's Notebook" (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly 2008), the second issue of Fire Poetry features a gathering of voices, each exacting in their perspective, each beckoning the reader to explore the grainy residue of recollection and the resin of memory.

Collect the nest, it is for your hands. Each work is a reminder that what is at rest will rise again from dormant dirt, and what endures burns away the overgrowth, revealing something stark and new. Pull back the tree limbs, loosen the roots, dig into the ground.

​Come into the clearing; they are gathered for you.


​Joy Bowman
Shaun Turner
co-editors, Fire Poetry
August 1, 2017

Fire Poetry Issue Two (August 2017)


Featured Poet:

 8 Poems by Darren C. Demaree

Fire Folio: Stranger's Notebook​ by Nomi Stone

Poems by:

Devon Balwit
Amy Baskin
Tammy Bendetti
Sarah Bigham
Martha Bove
Sarah Kernsey
Toti O'Brien
Sarah Vandervennet



Fire Poetry, Issue Two (August 2017)
Editors: Shaun Turner and Joy Bowman

Cover Art: Regrowth, photograph
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    • Fire Poetry Issue Four
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    • Fire Poetry Issue One
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