Thinking in Circles
byReading the new selected poems of Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment (Black Sparrow Press, 2020), at the same time as Kristi Carter’s new collection Aria…
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What Is Beyond: An Interview with Rachel Jamison Webster
byRachel Jamison Webster grew up in the small town of Madison, Ohio, on Lake Erie and now lives in Evanston, Illinois, where she teaches…
Naming as Failure and Prayer
byI imagine the Adam of Genesis 1 stirring to consciousness, birthed by the words “let us make…,” then whisked into the garden whenever we…
Only Clouds
byDuring so much uncertainty, different genres can help us cope in different ways—fiction can offer an escape from reality; nonfiction can bring us closer…
The Fables Keep Failing: A review of Jonathan Andrew Pérez’s Cartographer of Crumpled Maps: The Justice Elegies
byThe elegy and eulogy, both as poetic form and social practice, fascinate me. While the poetic form of elegy orients itself in celebration and…
All We Can Hope: A Review of The World I Leave You
byTo be descended from immigrants, drawn to a vocation of words, and writing from a spiritual lens is to find oneself in a niche…
The Fragile Human: a review of Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Last West, Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
by“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the…
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…
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,…