The Velvet Ant
Ren PowellPoems, playtexts, and work that defies category — on inheritance, assemblage, and flight.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 162 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 24 days ago |
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A Kind of Evolution.
Welcome to The Velvet Ant!
For me, poetry and performance both began in the natural world: a clumsy June bug and me, sharing the stage in an empty backyard amphitheater. In the final act, the blue jay enters, eats, and leaves. I take the b...
Summer, after its fullness
Driving toward the beach entails taking a narrow road between two cultivated fields. Beyond them are the cows that graze at the edge of the dunes. And over the dunes is the sea. This morning there was a doe and two fawns helping themselves...
Too Many Metaphors
I’m sitting at the desk for the first time in I don’t know how many months. I’m still N.E.D. when it comes to the physical signs of having cancer. But I didn’t realize how much of a psycho/spiritual crisis the experience would ignite.
I am...
Suspending Paid Subs Until October
Due to recent health issues, I haven’t been able to post on schedule. I’m freezing paid submissions until October to address this.
I am, however, doing well and will be posting again this week.
Thank you for your understanding.
Warmly...
Story Hunger
Dear Patient Readers,
Time has been difficult to measure this month. My heart has been beating too fast, and my breathing is still irregular. I have what is called air hunger. It’s telling of privilege that the term made me understand the...
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Poet, playwright, tidal scavenger. I place the unnerving beauty of the world centerstage: the sinister elegance of the parasitic wasp, the chaos of Dadaist art. I transcribe the lines between what pushes us to go and what compels us to stay.
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