Poetry Fix

The notion of doing a poetry issue for Fiction Fix
was tossed around for some time before a plan
took shape. This was, most simply, due to the fact
that Fiction Fix has historically published prose. So, from
the start, this was very much a “special” issue, if only
for that reason. However, as the parts started coming together,
it quickly became clear that this issue was special
for many reasons apart from its novelty in the Fiction Fix
timeline. It is exceptional because of the knockout cast
of poets inside these pages. While the poems that follow
are as varied in voice, form, and concern as they could
be, each contains and shares an energy that reaches
far outside of itself, with the potential, it seems, to explode
at any moment, to bare its secrets and its ghosts
before us. And here at Fiction Fix, that energy seems