© 2020 West Trade Review
Visual Poetics



______________________________________
© 2020 West Trade Review
© 2022 -2023  West Trade Review / Iron Oak Editions
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________
Home    About    Subscribe    Guidelines   Submit   Exclusives   West End    
                                                   Search Our Site
"Chronology of the Closet"
"I took a vow of abstinence then took a
wife who didn't want sex."

Full poem here.
Written and Read by Mickie Kennedy
Edited by Sarah Edmonds
July 18, 2023
VIDEO POEM
"Bailando Soul"
"long ago when we were one rhythm, one note
never lost in translation, always found in song"

Full poem here.
Written and Read by Tamara J. Madison
Edited by Sarah Edmonds
June 2, 2023
VIDEO POEM
"Mama Snake Love Sound on Vinyl"
"Tell me

in occipital whispers
what you’ll do if 
I come closer"

Full poem here.
Written and Read by Lauren Endicott
Edited by Sarah Edmonds
February 14, 2023
VIDEO POEM
"Hands Down "
"I’s walk the good ol’ ye faithful, the old glory up the aisle. 
Carry the cross for fourteen stations. See a Simon. 
Catch a Lyft at five. What stands divided suffocates blue, 
the weight of a taser is not the weight of a gun."

Full poem here.
Written and Read by Thea Matthews
Edited by Sarah Edmonds
December 14, 2022
VIDEO POEM
"In Jhelum"
"The weather forecast reads smoke.
I can no longer breathe.
There are ants climbing panicum,
and I am dealing a bruised hand,
gambling with life"

Full poem here.
Written and Read by Fatima Shahid
Edited by Sarah Edmonds
June 30, 2022
VIDEO POEM
"Universe Be Like"
"Venus, 

I can see your ruby glow in my backyard while he holds my unsteady hands. He says he loves me again. It’s going to be better this time, I think. We’re going to make a baby, 

baby he says."

Full poem here.
Written and Read by Mae Ellen-Marie Wissert
Edited by Sarah Edmonds
September 11, 2022
VIDEO POEM
"Pathology"
                          "In this bed
of warbled breath,
                                         we are one body
wrapped in a skin
       of brick, surviving
                             on radio waves."

Full poem here.
Written and Read by Andrew Payton
Edited by Sarah Edmonds
October 2, 2023
VIDEO POEM
"[Take the gravel underneath my feet]"
                                                "Take 
the black dog beaten with a metal 

pipe. Take the woman holding 
the pipe. Take the blowflies humming
 
above the rocks. "

Full poem here.
Written and Read by Alan May
Edited by Sarah Edmonds
December 1, 2023
VIDEO POEM
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

© 2023 Iron Oak Editions
Stay Connected to Our Literary Community.  Subscribe to Our Newsletter