The Painful, Joyful Hours: A Review of Bruce Snider’s Fruit
byBruce Snider’s new collection Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry, turns and turns again around the subject of being childless, of…
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Dancing Frog
byIt must be summertime, the season of outdoor dance parties and cookouts, because I just cannot get enough of dancing—and, more specifically, dancing animals….
We Learn the Names: a Review of Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue
byIn her essay “Upstream,” Mary Oliver offers her reader a scenario of a mind oriented towards (and in, and through) nature: “When the chesty,…
Habitation, Legacy, Exile: A Conversation With Jory Mickelson
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Jory Mickelson about their debut collection Wilderness//Kingdom (Floating Bridge Press, 2019) and its explorations of identity,…
The Rich Life of Objects in Elliott Colla and Ganzeer’s “We Are All Things”
byWe Are All Things, a graphic chapbook written by Elliott Colla and illustrated and designed by Ganzeer, luxuriates in the inner life of objects,…
The Vastness and Reserve of ‘Gbenga Adeoba’s Exodus
by‘Gbenga Adeoba’s remarkable first collection Exodus attends to the experience of those who have been forced to migrate from their homes by wars, disasters,…
Between The Fragments
byThe title of Jenny Offill’s new novel Weather is—like this small, strange, haunting book itself—perfect in its concision: a word that captures both the…
Sacred Geography
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Writing about a certain region can be tricky. On the one hand, it’s an opportunity to reveal a landscape and people that others aren’t...
Wonder and Truth
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Pricking by Jessica Cuello. Tiger Bark Press, 2016. 73 pages. $16.95. I. In Jessica Cuello’s first two full-length collections of poetry, the historical past...
Crossroads of Old
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Our Interview Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Anne Babson about the power of faith and poetry, honest depictions of American landscapes, and her...