Three Poems
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Chorus Frog The season of cracking open, bloodroot, egg strings. My grandmother chops the cloddy ground. Many years without him. Onion sets, new moon...
The Earth, The Body
bySandy Coomer is a visual artist and poet living in Brentwood, TN. Below, she shares her thoughts on acrylic pour painting and how it…
Two Poems
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Walking the Arroyo I kneel at the altar of stone, quartz-veined and creek-cut to trace volcanic memories. The urgency of cicadas sings through the...
Boxed World
byWilliam D. Hicks is a photographer who lives in Chicago. These works explore the interrelationship between natural subjects and technology. In Night Lights, the leafless…
Claude Monet, Argenteuil, 1875
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It was a lot of things. It was the algae blooms swimming against the tide. It was the convent of masts, making partial signs...
Amano
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Inspired by Frank Relle's "Amano," Jack Bedell composed his ekphrastic poem of the same name. Amano —Frank Relle Gallery, NOLA¹ Even what’s left of...
Your Strange Fortune
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For our second micro-essay on first books, Chloe Clark gives us a peek into the inspiration and process behind her debut collection Your Strange...
Nuclear Family
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“The militarization of light has been widely acknowledged as a historical rupture that brought into being a continuous Nuclear Age, but less understood is...
Poem Beginning With a Line From Wordsworth
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, and the neighbor has shoveled his horseshit in the garden, bucket after bucket dumped from rusting...
Refracted Errors
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March birch: whose rags appear at first as roses, at least in my loose vision ...
Where The Light Is Born: An Interview With Li-Young Lee
byLi-Young Lee was born in Jakarta, Indonesia to parents who were, as he discusses in this interview, scapegoated by the Chinese government and forced…
Bear Country
byI have been thinking lately of going feral. Once or twice each season I briefly leave the comforts of my home in the front…
American Cavewall Sonnet
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Wolf milk and wilderness America. Romulus and Remus built ...
Forgiveness Is Another Place
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Bully Love (Press 53, 2019) by Patricia Colleen Murphy “My only power is this ability to name,” proclaims the speaker of Bully Love,...
Practice Incarnation
byA Dialogue with Hannah VanderHart’s Review of Rosarium (Acre Books, 2018) “The body, like a church, / is a crime scene,” Hannah Dow suggests…
Belonging To The Environment
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Rosarium (Acre Books, 2018) by Hannah Dow “What Is the Body,” the first poem in Hannah Dow’s debut Rosarium, both asks and suggests: if...
Fossils In The Making
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The Micro-Essay Series on First Books was conceived as a way to give readers and writers a look behind the curtain, to see how...
In The Waking Green Undergrass
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Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air (Parlor Press, 2019) by Elizabeth Jacobson Winner of the 2017 New Measure Poetry Prize...
Seeing With Alchemy Eyes
byAlchemy for Cells and Other Beasts (Entre Ríos Books, 2017) by Maya Jewell Zeller and Carrie DeBacker Halfway through Maya Jewell Zeller and Carrie…
Shutter Impulse
byThe EcoTheo Review is delighted to feature visual art from photographer Jon Leatherwood. His artist statement reminds us of the spontaneity of creative work,…