Where The Light Is Born: An Interview With Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee was born in Jakarta, Indonesia to parents who were, as he discusses in this interview, scapegoated by the Chinese government and forced…
Practice Incarnation
A Dialogue with Hannah VanderHart’s Review of Rosarium (Acre Books, 2018) “The body, like a church, / is a crime scene,” Hannah Dow suggests…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Men
A review of 24 Hours of Men (Dancing Girl Press & Studio) by Lisa L. Moore “Here’s my love for that loss,” Lisa L….
Lay Hands
A review of Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Luther Hughes It is one of the peculiarities of language that a single phrase can often…
Ears to Hear
A Review of Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press) by Nancy Reddy Writing informed by geography tends to stake two kinds of claims: the claims we…
Handful of Fire
A Review of Revisions (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Eric Tran ‘empty me out,’ Eric Tran writes at the end of his gorgeous poem, “How…
Country Music
A Review of Tunsiya Amrikiya (Bull City Press, 2018) by Leila Chatti National identity, when not summoned for fatuous patriotism, can spur great poetry….
Letter from the Editor
In the ignominious and dispiriting year of American public life that was 2016, which culminated in the election of a president so egregiously unqualified…
Grapes
I saw some grapes growing in a field.
No one was tending them
to be some rich man’s wine.
No one was tending them at all.