The Nature of Trauma: A Review of Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron
byAward-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott’s first book to be published in the United States, The Rain Heron, out this month from Farrar, Strauss and…
Award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott’s first book to be published in the United States, The Rain Heron, out this month from Farrar, Strauss and…
Mother Earth served as an imagined utopia for me, as inspired by one positive side of social distancing, which resulted in reduced pollution levels….
How quiet is Hell—how it unnerves you. Usually, panic throttles you awake but today you wake up feeling. You do not expect gentleness—you…
“For some…the liminal becomes their only dwelling place—becomes home”[1] Jane Hirshfield Perhaps it’s because I’ve recently crossed into midlife, the space between…
PK Eriksson: You evoke rich and complex relationships between the speaker in your poems and God. It is really refreshing to come into contact…
Diane Glancy’s publication career spans three decades and includes dozens of books and articles. Her works span poetry, history, plays, films, short stories,…
As society faces civil unrest and what feels like a never-ending pandemic, Spinning the Vast Fantastic, Britton Shurley’s debut chapbook, finds hope in images…
If you grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, situated on the southernmost tip of the Texas-Mexico border, life was undoubtedly unique. The heat…
There came of late an autumn eve when longing filled my heart to go to live in light, away for a while in the…
The stand-out debut from Romanian-American poet Maya C. Popa is impossibly titled American Faith. Impossible because of the line-leader ideal that an American faith…
for Jennifer After Lazarus died and was raised and Christ died and was raised, Martha died. Which is more in keeping with the natural…
“It will only be love that I love you with.” The world, held inside another world. This interconnectedness is at the core of Leah…
Our Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez speaks with Ethan Rutherford about the role of mystery in storytelling, the importance and influence of family, and the…
Red to violet and each heart-sungshade between, I beg you—consider my position. Remember how far from youI am, sitting soaked in the puddlesof this…
Rain in Plural by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Princeton University Press, 2020. 105 pages. $17.95. The multiple layers and the angles of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s fourth collection…
A FARMER LIVED, but not well. If she planted grain, it would not sprout. If she grew rice, it would rot. If she tried…
How do I deserve a bumblebee in my squash flower? Honey-bearers—endangered—orchestrate through pheromones and dance. And what of this squash flower? How can I believe Adam came first…
Joanna Pocock’s eco-memoir Surrender opens with rhythm, specifically the rhythm of the human lifecycle: mundane repetitions leading to ennui, and the dreaded advent of…
We had the pleasure of speaking with Pádraig Ó Tuama just as Season 2 of his On Being podcast, Poetry Unbound, began. In addition…
Empty me unto thee, O Mercy, O Beginning, Port of Terror, Port of Morning.All my words pour on you, my heart in them, In…