Your Strange Fortune
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] For our second micro-essay on first books, Chloe Clark gives us a peek into the inspiration and process behind her debut collection Your…
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Nuclear Family
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “The militarization of light has been widely acknowledged as a historical rupture that brought into being a continuous Nuclear Age, but less understood…
Poem Beginning With a Line From Wordsworth
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, and the neighbor has shoveled his horseshit in the garden, bucket after bucket dumped from…
Refractive Errors
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] March birch: whose rags appear at first as roses, at least in my loose vision…
Where The Light Is Born: An Interview With Li-Young Lee
byLi-Young Lee was born in Jakarta, Indonesia to parents who were, as he discusses in this interview, scapegoated by the Chinese government and forced…
Bear Country
byI have been thinking lately of going feral. Once or twice each season I briefly leave the comforts of my home in the front…
American Cavewall Sonnet
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Wolf milk and wilderness America. Romulus and Remus built …
Forgiveness Is Another Place
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bully Love (Press 53, 2019) by Patricia Colleen Murphy “My only power is this ability to name,” proclaims the speaker of Bully…
Belonging To The Environment
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Rosarium (Acre Books, 2018) by Hannah Dow “What Is the Body,” the first poem in Hannah Dow’s debut Rosarium, both asks and suggests:…
Fossils In The Making
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Micro-Essay Series on First Books was conceived as a way to give readers and writers a look behind the curtain, to see…