Two Poems by Gwendolyn Morgan
byA Note to Spotted Towhee: Listen, the clouds move slowly, sun-litBlack-tailed deer with wild bird seed on their nosestranslate hoof prints, Western red cedar…
The Thickest Chocolate Shake and the Tangibility of Christ
byWilliam Woolfitt’s third book of poems, Spring Up Everlasting, revels in the overlapping mysteries of spirit and language, nature and nature’s degradation. Recipient of…
Mirrorform Psalms
byMirrorform Psalm Can I do you some good? Are you too flush for favors? Do all your favorite flavors sweeten your spoon when they…
Our Lady of Eggplant
byDame of the Raging Apple,grant us flavored flesh, oily epiphanies, we moan the globed heft in our palms, in your shiny purple cloak, Empress of Solanum melongena,…
The Painful, Joyful Hours: A Review of Bruce Snider’s Fruit
byBruce Snider’s new collection Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry, turns and turns again around the subject of being childless, of…
Dancing Frog
byIt must be summertime, the season of outdoor dance parties and cookouts, because I just cannot get enough of dancing—and, more specifically, dancing animals….
A Higher Order of Beauty
byArtist Statement Being Cajun, I was raised as a Catholic. However, there was an almost pantheistic component to it from being so deeply intertwined…
We Learn the Names: a Review of Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue
byIn her essay “Upstream,” Mary Oliver offers her reader a scenario of a mind oriented towards (and in, and through) nature: “When the chesty,…
Gemini Baby
byI look for a dark line rising up from my pelvis to my breasts,for any sign of you holier than the swelling. Not the…
Habitation, Legacy, Exile: A Conversation With Jory Mickelson
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Jory Mickelson about their debut collection Wilderness//Kingdom (Floating Bridge Press, 2019) and its explorations of identity,…
The Rich Life of Objects in Elliott Colla and Ganzeer’s “We Are All Things”
byWe Are All Things, a graphic chapbook written by Elliott Colla and illustrated and designed by Ganzeer, luxuriates in the inner life of objects,…
The Flowery and the Foul
byArtist’s Statement The central idea of this concentration is to combine the human body and insects in compelling ways that create new meanings and…
The Vastness and Reserve of ‘Gbenga Adeoba’s Exodus
by‘Gbenga Adeoba’s remarkable first collection Exodus attends to the experience of those who have been forced to migrate from their homes by wars, disasters,…
I might have been a botanist
byif they had let me stay insidethe elementary school biology class,if I had not been sent to the chapel to kneel when my parents…
Earth, Our Original Monastery: The Cathedral of Forest and Mountain
bySometimes when I work with retreat groups, I start by having them engage in a simple storytelling exercise called babbling,1 in which retreatants pair…
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…