Jennifer K. Sweeney's "Adolescence"
On August 1st, this past Sunday, there was a poetry reading at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, curated by Nina Corwin and in partnership...
Get Your Mood On
The latest round of entries for the Gatewood contest had so many visuals included, it made me wonder if next year we might get some...
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
a.k.a. usta-be-WILLA, has relaunched its website!


New chap from Jessica Bozek
Switchback poet Jessica Bozek has a new chapbook, Squint into the Sun, available now from Switchback's longtime literary love, dancing...


MONSTER POETRY CONTEST: Deadline Sunday!
Marisa Crawford and the rest of our friends at Small Desk Press are running this contest -- submit submit submit! Lizzy Acker Monster...
Brandi Homan's Bobcat Country @ DEMO
Friend o' Switchback Jessi Lee Gaylord reviews Bobcat Country and reminds me how awesome it is. Not like I forgot! -- but Jessi is...
Kathleen Rooney's Open Door
Kathleen (Oneiromance (an epithalamion)) gives a rundown of her Poets & Puppets reading with Leigh Stein, Sasha Fletcher, Jason Koo,...
Jennifer Knox on Comment Field Bullies
At The Best American Poetry blog, poet Jennifer Knox writes about Comment Field Bullies (CFBs) in her Jane, You Ignorant Slut post:...
Myers, Muench, and Klaver, Oh My!
Gina Myers (Switchback hearts you!) reviews Becca Klaver's LA Liminal over at New Pages Dean Rader reviews Simone Muench's Orange Crush...
The Haunted House on Verse Daily
Check out Marisa Crawford's poem "Artifacts" from The Haunted House. Then pick up your copy here, here, or here.