P. Aiden Hunt

3 weeks ago | phillychapbookreview.org | P. Aiden Hunt

As a child, I wasn’t allowed to watch television on days when there was school the next day. The rule for my two older siblings and myself was that we could listen to the radio, do our homework, or read. I can’t speak to my parents’ reasons for this rule, but it went a long way toward teaching me to loving reading and then writing. It’s one of many ways that they helped me get to where I am now.

2 months ago | phillychapbookreview.org | P. Aiden Hunt

Poet Kate Colby grew up in Massachusetts before earning her Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a Master’s in Fine Art from the California College of the Arts. Her full-length poetry collection, Fruitlands, was selected by Rosmarie Waldrop for the Norma Farber First Book Award. Beauport, her third full-length, was a finalist for Foreword Reviews’ Poetry Book of the Year Award, and Colby received a creative fellowship from the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, among other honors.

Jan 13, 2025 | theadroitjournal.org | P. Aiden Hunt

“How do you quantify the murmuring grief of the Americas?” asked poet Daniel Borzutzky in his 2021 collection, Written After the Massacre of 2018, and he continues to ruminate on this question. The poems in The Murmuring Grief of the Americas continue to focus on opposition to capitalism, imperialism, and the casual midwestern racism that leads to migrant mistreatment.

Jan 4, 2025 | phillychapbookreview.org | P. Aiden Hunt

Happy New Year! Welcome to year two of the strange little poetry and poetics journal called the Philly Poetry Chapbook Review! I created this journal with plans for what we’d publish, but also knowing that it was going to be a process of seeing what features work best and what to lose. I’m proud of our first year and excited for the new features of our second!Our first year saw us grow to six contributors of original material, myself included.

Sep 19, 2024 | phillychapbookreview.org | P. Aiden Hunt

Welcome to PCR issue 5! September is a special time of year for me because it’s ModPo season. “ModPo” is the nickname for the University of Pennsylvania’s free massive open online course (MOOC) titled “Modern & Contemporary American Poetry.” While the course content is available year-round, there is a lively 10-week symposium mode with weekly webcasts and teaching assistant office hours by Zoom. I welcome anyone interested to check out the course and community.