Poem Like A Miracle
byA conversation and peer review of Rosebud Ben-Oni’s turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019) by Tom Snarsky and Jo Ianni. TS: In…
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Wilderness, Softness and Resistance
byI started reading Advantages of Being Evergreen at my fiance’s therapy appointment—train horns blared for the hour it took me to read it, yet…
Empire of Smoke
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Our interviews editor Esteban Rodriguez talks with poet Alfredo Aguilar about capitalistic world building, climate catastrophe, poetic process, and his most recent collection, What...
We Are Appalachia
by“I am Appalachia… How can you find rapport with me— You, who never stood in the bowels of hell, Never felt a mountain shake…
The Human Impossibility
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Content warning: suicide In inventive narratives reminiscent of Russell Edson’s work, in Blue Whale Phenomena, Steve Castro contemplates questions of life and death, order...
In the Middle of Remote Places
byLooking into the eyes of a grouse he has just shot, Mike Freeman sees “a brown pupil encased in custard,” an eye that “didn’t…
We Is
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CAUSE WE IS LANGUAGE AND WE IS WORD To talk about the poems in Sami Miranda’s We Is is to talk about a poetry...
Seasons of Migration and Change
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Mar Ka’s poetry collection Be-hooved focuses on Alaska. Mar Ka (previously published in literary magazines under the name Mary Kancewick) has spent many years...
Truth or Play
byIt’s sometimes true that poets who write with more abstraction, or at least with a greater theoretical bent, get charged with solipsism, with being…
Single Guiding Stars: An Interview With Rosebud Ben-Oni
byOur interviews editor Esteban Rodriguez talks with Rosebud about her favorite musicians, identity, the place and purpose of literature in today’s socio-political landscape, and…