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…
Five Paintings by Anne Cameron Cutri
byMother Earth served as an imagined utopia for me, as inspired by one positive side of social distancing, which resulted in reduced pollution levels….
On a Clear Day
byHow quiet is Hell—how it unnerves you. Usually, panic throttles you awake but today you wake up feeling. You do not expect gentleness—you…
Poetics of the Threshold: A Review of Hinge by Molly Spencer
by“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…
The Earliest Witnesses: An Interview with G.C. Waldrep
byPK 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 on The Book of Job, Writing what you want, and Island of the Innocent
byDiane Glancy’s publication career spans three decades and includes dozens of books and articles. Her works span poetry, history, plays, films, short stories,…
Spinning Hope Out of Darkness: A Review of Britton Shurley’s Spinning the Vast Fantastic
byAs 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…
In Between the Valley and Elsewhere: an Interview with Rodney Gomez
byIf you grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, situated on the southernmost tip of the Texas-Mexico border, life was undoubtedly unique. The heat…
In My Grandfather’s House
byThere came of late an autumn eve when longing filled my heart to go to live in light, away for a while in the…
American Parables: A Review of American Faith by Maya C. Popa
byThe 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…
St. Martha
byfor Jennifer After Lazarus died and was raised and Christ died and was raised, Martha died. Which is more in keeping with the natural…
Tender and Unsparing: A Review of Leah Naomi Green’s The More Extravagant Feast
by“It will only be love that I love you with.” The world, held inside another world. This interconnectedness is at the core of Leah…
Farthest South: An Interview with Ethan Rutherford
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez speaks with Ethan Rutherford about the role of mystery in storytelling, the importance and influence of family, and the…
Letter to the Rainbow
byRed 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…
Unwinding Underground: A Review of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s Rain in Plural
byRain 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…
from The Rain Heron
byA FARMER LIVED, but not well. If she planted grain, it would not sprout. If she grew rice, it would rot. If she tried…
Glory and Her Gourd
byHow 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…
Unsettling the West: a Review of Joanna Pocock’s Surrender: The Call of the American West
byJoanna 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…
A Sacramental Understanding of the Earth
byWe had the pleasure of speaking with Pádraig Ó Tuama just as Season 2 of his On Being podcast, Poetry Unbound, began. In addition…
A Prayer
byEmpty me unto thee, O Mercy, O Beginning, Port of Terror, Port of Morning.All my words pour on you, my heart in them, In…