Claude Monet, Argenteuil, 1875
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It was a lot of things. It was the algae blooms swimming against the tide. It was the convent of masts, making partial…
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Amano
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Inspired by Frank Relle’s “Amano,” Jack Bedell composed his ekphrastic poem of the same name. Amano —Frank Relle Gallery, NOLA¹ Even what’s left…
(In)imitable Art
byIf you consider yourself a reader, especially a reader of poetry, it is likely that you’ve read John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”…
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 …
Seeing With Alchemy Eyes
byAlchemy for Cells and Other Beasts (Entre Ríos Books, 2017) by Maya Jewell Zeller and Carrie DeBacker Halfway through Maya Jewell Zeller and Carrie…