The Sheds
byMy antlers are not rightthey are twisted they are not rightthey are growing too fastsoon they will twist and twist together and grow straight…
Longing That Borders on Faith: A Review of Wilderness//Kingdom
byWhen I recall my adolescent years, I most frequently encounter a sense of shame and regret. Unable to find my longing reflected in others…
Earnest, Earnest?
byThere has perhaps been too much debate in the poetry community about the book project versus the collection of poems. Regardless of what corner…
Driving to the Funeral
byI find a run in my panty hose and we stopat Rite-Aid for another pair. In the car,I inch into them, my white winter…
A Shared Language of Loss and Grace: A Review of In the Field Between Us
byMolly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison sing through the pages of In the Field Between Us. In poems that read like letters (opening “Dear…
Joy in Confession: An Interview with Hillary Raining
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with Hillary Raining—Rector at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania—about The Hive, a wellness and spirituality website…
Drafted Into Music: A Review of Music for the Dead and Resurrected
byExisting in the space of both documentary and theater, Valzhyna Mort’s newest collection of poetry Music for the Dead and Resurrected rides in on…
Fracture and Intersection: An Interview with Ayokunle Falomo
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Ayokunle Falomo about the importance of family, writing from the perspective of two nations, and his…
Jesus in the Trailer
byIt’s often the small moments in life that are revelatory, and reading Andrew K. Clark’s debut collection, Jesus in the Trailer, is a reminder…
Interior Landscapes: Smaller Songs and Theorem
byThese two new poetry collections—one a chapbook, and one full-length—leap from their pages, exploring a range of space for the music of language to…
Two Poems by Ricky Ray
byOnce in Twelve Years, I Go to Church I go to the church with the cross in itand I kneel, because it hurts too…
Grace and Ongoingness: Noelle Kocot’s Path Among the Forms
byLater, they’ll review that book, and I’ll laugh at the makeout party beginning. —Noelle Kocot, from “Socializing” Tom Snarsky: How…
Uncertain Harvest: A Review of Burgi Zenhaeusern’s Behind Normalcy
byThere are many things that seem spookily prescient about reading Burgi Zenhaeusern’s Behind Normalcy in the COVID age. There’s the title, which seems to…
Social [email protected]: Inaugural Issue
by“We knew another storm would come,” Congressman Lewis wrote in his powerful memoir Walking with the Wind. “And we would have to do it…
Sacrifice the Bread: An Interview with Leanna Petronella
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Our Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Leanna Petronella about childhood, the body as metaphor, fairy tales and myths, and the inspiration behind...
Keep the Question in Front of You: A Conversation with Vijay Seshadri on Spirituality, Consciousness and Poetry
byThough I close my laptop and go to walk the dog, I notice there’s something following me; all afternoon into the late evening. It’s…
To Know a Place: An Interview with Tess Taylor
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Tess Taylor about the importance of place, the sober realities of reacquainting oneself with home, and…
If Mother Braids a Waterfall
byWriting about oneself can prove to be more difficult than expected, especially when it extends into intimate details of one’s family and their history….
Inside a Crisis: A Review of Danger Days by Catherine Pierce and Requisite by Tanya Holtland
by“We are inside a crisis of planetary scale and so too is our grieving, or our anger, and our response…” —Tanya Holtland, preface to…
Transit
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Transit, read by Clare Collins Hogan She wanted a girl. She didn’t get one. That was a year ago now. The end of the...