Your Strange Fortune
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For our second micro-essay on first books, Chloe Clark gives us a peek into the inspiration and process behind her debut collection Your Strange...
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Nuclear Family
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“The militarization of light has been widely acknowledged as a historical rupture that brought into being a continuous Nuclear Age, but less understood is...
Poem Beginning With a Line From Wordsworth
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, and the neighbor has shoveled his horseshit in the garden, bucket after bucket dumped from rusting...
Refractive Errors
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March birch: whose rags appear at first as roses, at least in my loose vision ...
Where The Light Is Born: An Interview With Li-Young Lee
byLi-Young Lee was born in Jakarta, Indonesia to parents who were, as he discusses in this interview, scapegoated by the Chinese government and forced…
Bear Country
byI have been thinking lately of going feral. Once or twice each season I briefly leave the comforts of my home in the front…
American Cavewall Sonnet
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Wolf milk and wilderness America. Romulus and Remus built ...
Forgiveness Is Another Place
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Bully Love (Press 53, 2019) by Patricia Colleen Murphy “My only power is this ability to name,” proclaims the speaker of Bully Love,...
Belonging To The Environment
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Rosarium (Acre Books, 2018) by Hannah Dow “What Is the Body,” the first poem in Hannah Dow’s debut Rosarium, both asks and suggests: if...
Fossils In The Making
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The Micro-Essay Series on First Books was conceived as a way to give readers and writers a look behind the curtain, to see how...