Interior Landscapes: Smaller Songs and Theorem
byThese two new poetry collections—one a chapbook, and one full-length—leap from their pages, exploring a range of space for the music of language to…
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Grace and Ongoingness: Noelle Kocot’s Path Among the Forms
byLater, they’ll review that book, and I’ll laugh at the makeout party beginning. —Noelle Kocot, from “Socializing” Tom Snarsky: How…
Uncertain Harvest: A Review of Burgi Zenhaeusern’s Behind Normalcy
byThere are many things that seem spookily prescient about reading Burgi Zenhaeusern’s Behind Normalcy in the COVID age. There’s the title, which seems to…
We’ve Got Mad Love: The Gods of Ourselves in Salt Body Shimmer
byI finish Salt Body Shimmer the same week the world receives the news that the cops who killed Breonna Taylor will not be charged…
Sacrifice the Bread: An Interview with Leanna Petronella
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Our Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Leanna Petronella about childhood, the body as metaphor, fairy tales and myths, and the inspiration behind...
Keep the Question in Front of You: A Conversation with Vijay Seshadri on Spirituality, Consciousness and Poetry
byThough I close my laptop and go to walk the dog, I notice there’s something following me; all afternoon into the late evening. It’s…
To Know a Place: An Interview with Tess Taylor
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Tess Taylor about the importance of place, the sober realities of reacquainting oneself with home, and…
If Mother Braids a Waterfall
byWriting about oneself can prove to be more difficult than expected, especially when it extends into intimate details of one’s family and their history….
Inside a Crisis: A Review of Danger Days by Catherine Pierce and Requisite by Tanya Holtland
by“We are inside a crisis of planetary scale and so too is our grieving, or our anger, and our response…” —Tanya Holtland, preface to…
Plunder
byAll writers at some point in their careers have been told to write what they know best, and often this includes, in some shape…