Poetry
Planning the Animal
October. Hoary spaces. My thinking goes up. My muscles tauten. January will come. A nearly open jackknife, my stance will congeal. Desire in my eye will quicken and fasten to a spot...
Photographic Memory
On a humid night the moon steaming in the sky we sat around the cottage firepit my daughter squealing as marshmallows got sooty and sticky on the wooden skewer an instrumental song...
I Should Have Stolen More Chocolate Bars
I became a sinner when I stole a chocolate bar from the supermarket. / I shared it with my cousin, who would not suspect / a seven-year-old of stashing chocolates. Unlike my...
Interviews
“Praise Talk, Appreciation, is the Basic Language of Poetry”: A Conversation With Di Brandt
Interviewed by Laurence Hutchman
An Interview with Penn Kemp
Interviewed by Sophie Guillas
Poetry, Accessibility and Education – An Interview with Jónína Kirton
Interviewed by Chloe Gandy
A Real Donnie Brasco Situation: An Interview with Shaun Robinson
Interviewed by Rob Taylor
Reviews
MANOR’S RANSOM by Cam Scott
Reviewed by Ava Glendinning
Rush of Wingspan by Eleonore Schönmaier
Reviewed by Louise Carson
Non-Prophet by Qurat Dar
Reviewed by Shanai Tanwar
New-Fangled Rose by Sue Sinclair
Reviewed by Julia Pelitis
The Character Actor Convention by Guy Elston
Reviewed by Jay Miller
Qaf’s People by Sadiqa de Meijer
Reviewed by Aris Keshav
News
A Retraction of Plagiarized Work in the Summer Issue of CV2
CV2 is very sorry to share that a poem we published in our most recent issue, Vol.49.1, the summer 2026...
You’re invited to the Summer Issue launch!
The new issue is here and she is 🌼VIBRANT🌼 Our online poem party carries zero risk of sunburn and will...
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 2-Day Poem Contest!
We are so happy to announce the winners of this year’s contest, as selected by our judge Sarah Wolfson, our...
