Revisiting 2020: Our 50 Most Popular Posts of the Year

 

 

Dear As It Ought To Be Readers,

 

Despite everything 2020 threw at us, AIOTB Magazine was fortunate to receive so many brilliant poems, essays, interviews, and book reviews from writers around the world. Below, I have assembled the 50 most popular posts of the year based on the amount of hits they received. I know that few people will look back at 2020 with fondness, but maybe reviewing these posts from the year is a reminder of the resilience people have to continue to create in a crisis, and to channel the anxiety of the world into writing that connects us.

AIOTB Magazine was perhaps the only constant I had in 2020 that began and ended the year exactly the same, and completely intact. I have all of you contributors and readers to thank for that. Thanks for keeping me sane and connected to a community of writers when I most needed stability, creativity, and human connection in my life.

I have no idea what 2021 will look like, but if you keep reading and supporting each other’s work, you’ll at least have three new pieces a week on AIOTB Magazine to count on.

 

-Chase Dimock
Managing Editor

 

Poetry

Omobolanle Alashe:

• Cherish

Jason Baldinger:

• This Ghostly Ambience
• Kings Bridge Armory May 6 1919
• Cape Henlopen Blues
• Beauty is a Rare Thing

Rusty Barnes:

• The Act of Working

Jean Biegun:

• Hospice

Victor Clevenger:

• Low-Flying Birds
• Milkman’s Mustache

John Dorsey:

• Perpetual Motion
• Belle, Missouri, During the Pandemic on a Wednesday

Ajah Henry Ekene:

• Of Aging

Loisa Fenichell:

• I know now I did not fabricate the sky

Jeff Hardin:

• A Namelessness of Starlings

John Haugh:

• Thanksgiving Hurt

Mike James:

• Saint Jayne Mansfield
• Almost Autumn and Time to Go

Jennifer R. Lloyd:

• Hill Hours

John Macker:

• Last Riff for Chet

Tessah Melamed:

• And Other Drugs

THE NU PROFIT$ OF P/O/E/T/I/C DI$CHORD:

• Four poems from their latest book

Hilary Otto:

• Show Don’t Tell

Dan Overgaard:

• Drifting Off

Rob Plath:

• That Which

Daniel Romo:

• The Main Event

Diana Rosen:

• Hollywood Freeway

Damian Rucci:

• On Wednesdays

Leslie M. Rupracht:

• Hess Trucks and the End of the Double Standard
• Brothers

Anna Saunders:

• Golden Chain

Sheila Saunders:

• April Visitor

Alan Semerdjian:

• The Politics

Delora Sales Simbajon:

• Wednesday Eve at the Donut Shop

Nathanael Stolte:

• New, But Borrowed

Timothy Tarkelly

• Hastings: A Remembrance

William Taylor Jr.:

• A Seventeen Dollar Glass of Wine and the Early Works of Matisse
• Mr. Sanchez

Bunkong Tuon:

• Song I Sing
• Lisel Mueller Died at 96

Peggy Turnbull:

• Night Ferry
• The River’s Gift

Brian Chander Wiora:

• So Together, So Soon

 

 

Reviews

Chase Dimock:

• A review of The Premise of My Confession: A Dramatis Personae by Sean Karns

Mike James:

• Ten Big Things to Know About Roy Bentley: A Review of My Mother’s Red Ford: New & Selected Poems, 1986-2020 

Arthur Hoyle:

• Blue Collar Blues: The Poetry of Wayne F. Burke

 

 

Interviews

Chase Dimock:

• An Interview with Poet Agnes Vojta
• An Interview with Poet and Artist Jeanette Powers

 

Nonfiction

Brian Connor:

• Baseball Bastardized

Cody Sexton:

• Heathen

 

 

Micro Fiction

Meg Pokrass:

• Blueberry Blue