The Softness of Ecology is Conversing with the Chaos of the World
byThe first poem in Kathmandu, “When Rajiv was blown up,” opens: Before her belly would caressand press the bomb in her sari,she gave the…
The first poem in Kathmandu, “When Rajiv was blown up,” opens: Before her belly would caressand press the bomb in her sari,she gave the…
We often talk about books being shaped by the times in which they were written, but books are also shaped by the times in…
In her debut collection The High Shelf, Nadia Colburn has gifted us with intimate and elegantly crafted poems. Colburn draws from her experiences of…
Start with the water. At the end of A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean writes: “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a…
Brenda Shaughnessy, in her fifth published book, The Octopus Museum, has built a literary edifice concerned with the memorialization of a unique species that…
Reading the new selected poems of Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment (Black Sparrow Press, 2020), at the same time as Kristi Carter’s new collection Aria…
I imagine the Adam of Genesis 1 stirring to consciousness, birthed by the words “let us make…,” then whisked into the garden whenever we…
The elegy and eulogy, both as poetic form and social practice, fascinate me. While the poetic form of elegy orients itself in celebration and…
To be descended from immigrants, drawn to a vocation of words, and writing from a spiritual lens is to find oneself in a niche…
“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the…