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Friends, after 10 years I have decided to put Poets off Poetry on indefinite hiatus! There are too many people to thank but please know how grateful I am to everyone who contributed to this series. Here's a little farewell essay that I wrote to commemorate this ending: http://coldfrontmag.com/hearts-and-thoughts-on-10-years-of-poets-off-poetry/
New Song of the Week by Russell Brakefield! http://coldfrontmag.com/oh-mary-dont-you-weep-performed-by-lonnie-and-clara-frazier/
Track this song back through its many forms and you will see the legs a song can have when built...
New Song of the Week and the last of The Operating System residency by Derrick Mund! http://coldfrontmag.com/freedom-by-quintron-and-miss-pussy-cat/
This beat, these chords, these lyrics, and this live act help me when I’m down and not a...
New Song of the Week by Alex Crowley, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/lost-by-neurosis/
rust atmospherics, gears on gears, the interminable cadence of the factory, the cyborg pattern pressed in flesh, conveyor...
New Song of the Week by Medhi Navid, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/bebar-ey-abr-e-bahar-rain-by-mohammadreza-shajarian/
I opened my eyes and Tata was not lying beside me. The tent’s door was open. I sipped...
New Song of the Week by Johnny Damm, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/spaced-cowboy-by-sly-and-the-family-stone/
1. “Spaced Cowboy” is the song where Sly Stone yodels. 2. There is no such creature as a yodeling...
New Song of the Week by Andrea Mazzariello, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/positive-tension-by-bloc-party/
I focus on the mantra. Meaning I can’t hear the ways the other language complicates it. Something glorious...
New Song of the Week by JP Howard, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/new-girl-by-be-steadwell/
New Girl by Be Steadwell, queer pop musician with an enticing voice, is a gorgeous song, reminding us...
New Song of the Week by Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/emerge-by-fischerspooner/
It’s 2001 and New York City doesn’t know what to do with itself. It’s bleeding, frenetic, can’t seem...
New Song of the Week by Ivy Johnson, part of the The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/mask-off-by-future/
Some songs are parasites. They hang in the air seemingly innocuous and you catch a whiff of bay...
New Song of the Week by Sparrow, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/same-drugs-by-chance-the-rapper/
Chance The Rapper first came to prominence for making a record on LSD (fittingly entitled “Acid Rap”) (2013)....
New Poets off Poetry by Scott Wordsman! http://coldfrontmag.com/on-the-dandy-warhols-dandys-rule-ok-by-scott-wordsman/
My parents liked music, but they didn’t love music—didn’t seek it out like how my brother or some...
New Song of the Week by Jay Besemer, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/dead-finks-dont-talk-by-brian-eno/
It’s the deadpan, the world-weariness. It’s the regimental drumbeat and the saloony piano. This song on repeat through...
New Song of the Week by Joanna C. Valente, part of The Operating System residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/the-greatest-by-cat-power/
New Song of the Week and the first of The Operating System residency by Erick Sáenz! http://coldfrontmag.com/i-think-this-is-my-exit-by-the-one-am-radio/
Something about nostalgia… 1. For college I moved 6 hours north to a sleepy town along the coast....
New Song of the Week and the last of the Third Man Records residency by Kendra DeColo! http://coldfrontmag.com/mother-natures-son-that-would-be-something-performed-by-jack-white/
If you’re in the mood to torture yourself, watching Obama era performances at the White House is a...
New Song of the Week and part of a short Third Man Records residency by Ciona Rouse! http://coldfrontmag.com/fatima-by-knaan/
Names sit holy on the tongue like pre-sun salat, like body and blood, sliced apples in honey. When...
New Song of the Week and the first of a short Third Man Records residency by Dan Hoy! http://coldfrontmag.com/dont-be-cruel-by-bobby-brown/
It occurred to me awhile back that almost all love songs are not about being in love but...
New Poets off Poetry by Shannon Tharp! http://coldfrontmag.com/on-guy-clarks-anyhow-i-love-you-by-shannon-tharp/
I miss Guy Clark. I never met Guy Clark. But I know enough about his place in the...
New Song of the Week by Peter Milne Greiner http://coldfrontmag.com/lower-worlds-by-rainer-maria/
I don’t say what she’s knowing, but maybe I say that she’s “too talk too tired” and that...
New Song of the Week and the last of the shortie Trembling Bells residency, by Erika Howsare! http://coldfrontmag.com/ground-hog-by-the-watson-family/
My mother grew up in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where groundhog was served at a ceremonial dinner she attended in...
New Song of the Week, part of a very brief Trembling Pillow Press residency, by Marty Cain! http://coldfrontmag.com/free-as-the-rent-we-dont-pay-by-johnny-hobo-and-the-freight-trains/
This song comes from the earliest musical project of Pat the Bunny, an anarcho-punk cult hero from the...
New Song of the Week by Leah Jade Connolly! http://coldfrontmag.com/moments-by-kev/
In a world fraught with war, depression, and images that shock and astound daily, in times when we...
New Song of the Week by Abigail Beckel, the last of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/we-got-the-power-love-letter-from-america-by-born-again-floozies/
I love handclaps in songs. They make everything feel peppier. Even the most questionable children’s songs can be...
New Song of the Week by Sierra Nelson, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/easy-to-be-around-by-diane-cluck/
This song feels like a dream: not “dreamy” in the soft way but with a dream’s heightened awareness,...
Exciting things happening at Coldfront this summer. Stay tuned! In the meantimes, will be reading the New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore, edited by Heather Cass White.
New Song of the Week by Kelcey Parker Ervick, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/new-resolution-by-heartless-bastards/
“My new resolution is to be someone who doesn’t care what anyone thinks of me, ‘cause I don’t...
New Song of the Week by Adam Golaski, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/nunu-by-mira-calix/
Black sky white flora fringed pink and green. “piece not about the field recording” Here is a home...
New Song of the Week by Nicelle Davis, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/cranes-in-the-sky-by-solange/
My brilliant high school students picked this song for me to write up. When I asked them why,...
New Song of the Week by Rosie Forrest, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/here-and-heaven-performed-by-chris-thile-aoife-odonovan-yo-yo-ma-stuart-duncan-edgar-meyer/
Wait for it. The climb begins in bare feet and marches up a mountain with all the steps...
New Song of the Week by Anthony Michael Morena, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/what-do-you-do-it-for-by-lou-e/
I recently started to drive, and I’ve been enjoying the physics of music plus speed plus direction. This...
New Song of the Week by Jennifer Tseng, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/i-remember-you-by-bjork/
By the time you finish reading this sentence, 12 people will have died and 24 will have been...
New Song of the Week by Kathleen Rooney, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/these-boots-are-made-for-walking-performed-by-nancy-sinatra/
At DePaul University, I get to teach a class called the Writer as Urban Walker, and whenever I...
New Song of the Week by Carol Guess, part of the Rose Metal Press residency! http://coldfrontmag.com/disco-very-keep-it-healthy-by-warpaint/
Love the colors and shapes in this sound. Feels like a haunted house wrote a song about being...
New Song of the Week, and the first of the Rose Metal Press residency, by Dinty W. Moore! http://coldfrontmag.com/more-fool-me-by-genesis/
My late high school years saw me sitting too often in a dark room listening to various British...
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