About

Punch-in-the-face Poetry is run by Elijah Patterson. It is a free, not-for-profit, costs-me-money, completely-unauthorized compendium of poetry that hits me like a suckerpunch.

I look for strong turns, evocative language, and vivid images. I am a sucker for blank verse, internal rhyme, and very short poems. I love unrhymed couplets. Place poems do something unexpected to my heart. A friend used to tell me he could tell when I have just read a poem by my sudden, quiet “mm” as a line hits me just right.