Poetry

by Karan Kapoor & Art by JC Alfier

JC Alfier most recently published a book of poetry, The Shadow Field (Louisiana Literature Press) in 2020. Journal credits include Faultline, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, River Styx, Southern Poetry Review, and Vassar Review. He is also an artist doing collage and double- exposure work.

Karan Kapoor is the Editor-in-Chief of ONLY POEMS and an MFA candidate at Virginia Tech. A finalist for the Diode, Tusculum Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review chapbook prizes, their poems have appeared in AGNI, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in JOYLAND, and their translations in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. They worship at the altar of Leonard Cohen and are currently treating the class they teach as a church to spread love for the maestro. Find them at: karankapoor.net Instagram: @whyareyounotreading X(Twitter): @poetkarankapoor