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…
Reviews
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:…
In The Waking Green Undergrass
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air (Parlor Press, 2019) by Elizabeth Jacobson Winner of the 2017 New Measure Poetry…
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…
Environment And Ritual
byThe Gathering Song (Finishing Line Press, 2018) by Christina Xiong “The land spirits are exhausted and starving,” writes Christina Xiong in her debut poetry…
Our Irrevocable Needs
byBarnburner (Elixir Press, 2018) by Erin Hoover “Barnburner is not your grandfather’s apple orchard,” the introduction to Barnburner states, and this was as good…