THE FEATURES

Once a month Punk Eek goes deep—like really deep. Our features rotate in genre between poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, offering an in-depth look into the world of our author with an interview that expands on their work. These features explore various interpretations and intersections taking place within nature: the personal, the political, the otherworldly.  

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Tethers and Eddies
Tina Carlson
Tethers and Eddies
Tina Carlson

Deep in the Grand Canyon, shadows rose up and descended like dark curtains against the stone. Early morning brought a lip of light to the rim which found its way down to the river by mid-morning. Late afternoon dropped the shadows, slow and steady, until the mouth of the canyon closed to the sun and we lived again in the dark.

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Tina Carlson
Five Poems
poetry Kristin Emanuel poetry Kristin Emanuel

Five Poems

Excerpt from The Loch Ness Monster is a Widowed Time Traveler

Give us something hopeful among the bluesy
newsflashes & flash floods & earthquakes
& flashlights during power outages & wildfires 
ravaging cities to ashes to ashes to ashes. . . .

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Six Poems
poetry Arielle Hebert poetry Arielle Hebert

Six Poems

Birthing Age

I chip my front tooth in midwinter / chewing on chapped lips. Run my tongue / along the rough edge, feel a point, / an icicle. Cold rain’s coming down. / The day has only just begun and already /
my body has managed to hurt itself, / break off a little piece and swallow. . . .

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