Where Receptors Are Missing
byThe French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote that human experience of the home is a primarily imaginative experience and that by dwelling in a place,…
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Listening to Trees, Tides and Song in the Anthropocene
by“Seems the only thing saving me / these days is trees,” writes Marjorie Moorhead in her debut chapbook Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (FLP, 2019)….
Poem Like A Miracle
byA conversation and peer review of Rosebud Ben-Oni’s turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019) by Tom Snarsky and Jo Ianni. TS: In…
Wilderness, Softness and Resistance
byI started reading Advantages of Being Evergreen at my fiance’s therapy appointment—train horns blared for the hour it took me to read it, yet…
Empire of Smoke
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our interviews editor Esteban Rodriguez talks with poet Alfredo Aguilar about capitalistic world building, climate catastrophe, poetic process, and his most recent collection,…
We Are Appalachia
by“I am Appalachia… How can you find rapport with me— You, who never stood in the bowels of hell, Never felt a mountain shake…
The Human Impossibility
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Content warning: suicide In inventive narratives reminiscent of Russell Edson’s work, in Blue Whale Phenomena, Steve Castro contemplates questions of life and death,…
In the Middle of Remote Places
byLooking into the eyes of a grouse he has just shot, Mike Freeman sees “a brown pupil encased in custard,” an eye that “didn’t…
We Is
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] CAUSE WE IS LANGUAGE AND WE IS WORD To talk about the poems in Sami Miranda’s We Is is to talk about a…
Seasons of Migration and Change
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Mar Ka’s poetry collection Be-hooved focuses on Alaska. Mar Ka (previously published in literary magazines under the name Mary Kancewick) has spent many…