Farthest South: An Interview with Ethan Rutherford
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez speaks with Ethan Rutherford about the role of mystery in storytelling, the importance and influence of family, and the…
Our Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez speaks with Ethan Rutherford about the role of mystery in storytelling, the importance and influence of family, and the…
Red to violet and each heart-sungshade between, I beg you—consider my position. Remember how far from youI am, sitting soaked in the puddlesof this…
Rain in Plural by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Princeton University Press, 2020. 105 pages. $17.95. The multiple layers and the angles of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s fourth collection…
A FARMER LIVED, but not well. If she planted grain, it would not sprout. If she grew rice, it would rot. If she tried…
How do I deserve a bumblebee in my squash flower? Honey-bearers—endangered—orchestrate through pheromones and dance. And what of this squash flower? How can I believe Adam came first…
Joanna Pocock’s eco-memoir Surrender opens with rhythm, specifically the rhythm of the human lifecycle: mundane repetitions leading to ennui, and the dreaded advent of…
We had the pleasure of speaking with Pádraig Ó Tuama just as Season 2 of his On Being podcast, Poetry Unbound, began. In addition…
Empty me unto thee, O Mercy, O Beginning, Port of Terror, Port of Morning.All my words pour on you, my heart in them, In…
Several years ago, I came upon Sandra Critelli’s stunning photograph of migrating cownose stingrays appearing as an intricate pattern of yellow, tan, and green…
I used to walk a trail in the dunes near Provincetown with my pockets full of birdseed. I liked the zip of the chickadees’ scratchy feet…
It is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are inside a moment of grand disconnection. Even if it were not for the pandemic,…
You might kneel to the ground to focus your imagination on it only to find your own story from bud to leaf and in…
Jorie Graham hears a buzzing we can’t. At the UK launch for her newest collection of poetry, Runaway, the poet walks out of the…
Geoffrey Gatza, The Albatross Around the Neck of Albert Ross: Strange Stories for Wild Children (Lavender Ink Press, 2020) H. L. Hix, The Gospel…
1. Go outside and look at the clouds. What shapes do you see? Do not write them down.2. Open your door and step outside,…
It is impossible to read Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’ The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons at this time without thinking directly of the multiple…
What I mean is, I have walked far enough into the woods to forget my own feet. I am barefoot. The snow is cold….
Wonder Tissue is Hannah Larrabee’s debut poetry collection, and the winner of the Airlie Prize. The book is organized into two hemispheres of the…
When Davis and I began preparations to leave California—moving out of our apartment, putting furniture in storage—we told our friends and family that we…