I was surprised I chose “Hemingway’s Room” because I tend not to like poems about writing. Again, it was the language, clean and sharp throughout, but the section where the narrator heads out and reports what he sees, the images, is what won me over. — Tony Gloeggler *** Hemingway’s Room I think about …
I really dug the step by step precise writing, the repetition in the middle, the sure steady rhythm of “Eating Corn Soup under the Strawberry Moon.” I could taste and smell the poem. At the close, the poem left me with a sense of peace and power. — Tony Gloeggler *** Eating Corn Soup under …
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“Heat” stuck out from my initial reading and each time I read it with all the poems, it just felt stronger, resonated more. Clean, clear writing where every word fit. The poem surprised me where it went as I read it, but afterwards it felt as if it went the only place it could have …
Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic that is both viral and political, it is a resource for strength and creativity, friendship and beauty, …
Tony Gloeggler’s latest book, What Kind of Man (NYQ Books, 2020) is a brutally honest, succinctly crafted, precisely worded collection of poems. The book has all the street eloquence that brings Gloeggler’s gritty, no nonsense, New York City world to life. Gloeggler chronicles his battle with a life-threatening kidney disease in potent, cinematic narratives peppered …
A GOOD MAN At the end of our last phone call my mom told me cousin Tom’s cancer came back. He’s keeping quiet about it, which everyone appreciates since he tends to tell the same stories over and over. Besides, somebody will just say what can you do. Someone else, it is what it is …
Dear Editor of Poetry Journals Named after Famous Cities by Sean Thomas Dougherty I am writing to ask, have you ever eaten a cloud? You see my youngest daughter didn’t use the toilet till she was after 4 years old. She’d shit in a diaper and didn’t seem to mind. She refused to read till she …
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Writing is the loneliest of activities. No one understands what I go through.
Tony Gloeggler is a life long resident of NYC’s boroughs and manages group homes for the developmentally disabled in Brooklyn. His poems have recently been published in The Raleigh Review, Rattle, the Chiron Review, Mas Tequila Review, Nerve Cowboy, and Paterson Literary Review. He’s been nominated for Pushcarts a handful of times and would like …
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