January Silences
byFurthermore there are degrees of silence. There is a silence in the beauty of the universe which is like a noise when compared with…
Fleeting Insights
byArtist’s Statement The joy of collage is finding the endless connections between seemingly unrelated things. In some collages, the juxtaposition of ordinary with the…
God as a Field of Mule’s Ears Daisies in Colorado
byYellow faces brayingkick the anatomyof day open.Startled green, thick leaves pricklike ears of a stubborn animal. There will never be a worda flower can…
Between The Fragments
byThe title of Jenny Offill’s new novel Weather is—like this small, strange, haunting book itself—perfect in its concision: a word that captures both the…
The Territory Now Covered
byThe territory now covered by Erving was settled about 1801, by Col.Asaph White, of Heath, who built a log house in the wilderness. A…
Sacred Geography
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Writing about a certain region can be tricky. On the one hand, it’s an opportunity to reveal a landscape and people that others aren’t...
Heroin Ghazal
byGrowth has lifted the county that buried sunflower seedsdeep into the flesh of every body, buried, sprouting seeds uncurling green as a smile, and…
Wonder and Truth
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Pricking by Jessica Cuello. Tiger Bark Press, 2016. 73 pages. $16.95. I. In Jessica Cuello’s first two full-length collections of poetry, the historical past...
God’s Silence
byAfter a long time, we spoke in the same tongue. Should I move on, I asked God and God replied, You do not seem…
Crossroads of Old
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Our Interview Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Anne Babson about the power of faith and poetry, honest depictions of American landscapes, and her...
Mandala
byI am glued to the interior of my thoughts. A shredded ballerina figurine dipped in gold. Trees, water, sky. Autumn. Spring. Autumn. Outside, reality…
Inhabited By Ghosts
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The pregnant female body is “a body-stage,” writes Jessica Q. Stark in her poetic debut Savage Pageant, where she deftly moves from the spectacle...
Two Poems
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The Horse Chestnut Is About To Go Extinct in Europe. In North America, we’ve already lost half of our bird population. The meadowlark, I’ve...
Radical Tenderness and Illness as Resistance in Amy Berkowitz’s Tender Points
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CW: Child abuse and SA “I believe that unless we treat each other with tenderness and care now the revolution won’t come. Tenderness isn’t...
Mother Earth’s Easter Address
byI am the trees, am the bodily matter of my son, the god-man who climbed one, died, and came down. I’m the dirt of…
From Wound to Wonder
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Exit Pastoral by Aidan Forster. YesYes Books, 2019. 32 pages. $12. Bruce Snider, writing on his experience as a queer poet, recounts how he...
Two Poems
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River and Fugue All afternoon I have sat in the middle of the river, disrupting the animals who live in it and come to...
Sound, Collage, and Hybridity as Lyric
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“This day has a quietness / that sticks” read the first two lines of the poem “Ohio” in Kathryn Cowles’s second collection of poems,...
Headwaters
byBelieve me, we have met our obligations, made ourselves into terrain, behaved like rivers between hills, let sediment settle, warm, fertile, into our beds,…
After the Ascension
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No one wanted to look at each other. No one wanted to speak, to be the first to speak. But we had to. Walking...