28 April 2026 Guest Poet: Doug Poole Doug Poole is a poet, as well as the creator, editor and publisher of online poetry journal blackmail press . His poetry has been widely published in online and print journals and in anthologies, including Landfall, Hawaiian Review and Trout. Of his work he says, ‘The enduring theme of my poetry and ongoing manuscript of Pouliuli [his collection of Samoan poems], is the expression of being Samoan and Afakasi. It is central to me as a poet