An Interview with Ellen Davis
byWe spoke via Zoom (as don’t we all, these days) with Dr. Ellen Davis in the days immediately following the Trumpist terrorist attack on…
Backyard Cathedral Kit
byStep One: Sweep compost of your midnights into flowerbeds. Spiral paths to the center to entice the improbable bee. Building a garden to see…
The Language of Women
byI have in front of me two collections which should shake the foundations of what a person thinks they know about conception, child loss,…
Some Are Always Hungry: An Interview With Jihyun Yun
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez speaks with Jihyun Yun on the importance of family and place, the effects of diaspora and war, and the…
I Trend Toward Smallness
byMy life had been collecting stones& washing them in waters I’ve never been to this placeor to that one My wish had been to…
Digging for Truth: A Review of Ray Ball’s Lararium and Marilyn McCabe’s Being Many Seeds
byLararium by Ray Ball. Variant Literature, 2020. 38 pages. $10. Being Many Seeds by Marilyn McCabe. Grayson Books, 2020. 20 pages. $12. All archaeology…
Come and Roam: An Interview With Hannah Anderson
byOur Managing Editor Alexandria Barbera speaks with Hannah Anderson about her latest book Turning of Days (Moody Publishers, 2021). Both captivating and illuminating, Anderson’s book…
Daughter of Downwinders, II
byIn Apache Junctionmy great uncle is stungby a small bark scorpionafter he pulls his old washing machineaway from the wall.His heart fails.His wife finds him dead…
Touched: A Review of Caw by Michael Waters
byA critique leveled at the late Alan Dugan was that his poetry, although consistent across collections, was at times too predictable and never left…
Studies of Familiar Birds: An Interview With Carrie Green
byReading Carrie Green’s debut collection, Studies of Familiar Birds, you are not only entering a world of elegy, ekphrasis, family relationships, and an exploration…
Disambiguation With a Dead Carp on the Bank
byUnplayable tennis court, its serving boxes blue with mud and cracking paint. A hyperborean bent to the wind today. I can’t warm up to…
Volatile Voices: A Review of Erik Fuhrer’s Not Human Enough for the Census
byTo read a book of poems about disaster in the middle of several simultaneous disasters is both an escape and a two-sided mirror. When…
The Rain Heron: an Interview with Robbie Arnott
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez sat down with Australian novelist Robbie Arnott to speak about his newest novel The Rain Heron, as well the…
A Letter, Written by Hand, from Quarantine
byWhich is the hand that felled the tree that pulped the wood that made the paper that is now beneath the hand of the…
Crossings: A Review of On This Side of the Desert
byFor anyone who grew up along the U.S.-Mexican border, life was no doubt unique. The border from California to Texas is by no means…
Burning Province: An Interview with Michael Prior
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez speaks with poet Michael Prior about his newest collection Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020). Clear, lyrical,…
Hiking in the Anthropocene
byI asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. -Kurt Vonnegut I read…
Strange Countries
byIf poetry is the news that stays news, its daily headlines concern how the strange stays strange: the strangeness of countries, the strangeness of…
Lake of Myths
byI stood waiting for Father all afternoon; watching the sun sink down, turning purple, and the lakeshore shimmering in the afterglow. Swallowed up by…
The Nature of Trauma: A Review of Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron
byAward-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott’s first book to be published in the United States, The Rain Heron, out this month from Farrar, Strauss and…