Inhabited By Ghosts
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The pregnant female body is “a body-stage,” writes Jessica Q. Stark in her poetic debut Savage Pageant, where she deftly moves from the…
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Radical Tenderness and Illness as Resistance in Amy Berkowitz’s Tender Points
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] CW: Child abuse and SA [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“I believe that unless we treat each other with tenderness and…
From Wound to Wonder
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Exit Pastoral by Aidan Forster. YesYes Books, 2019. 32 pages. $12. Bruce Snider, writing on his experience as a queer poet, recounts how…
Sound, Collage, and Hybridity as Lyric
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “This day has a quietness / that sticks” read the first two lines of the poem “Ohio” in Kathryn Cowles’s second collection of…
A Cinder Love Can Still Catch Fire
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bootstrap love, cinder love, love that knows everyone’s heartis the size and shape of a fist. …
Gone As Our Ancestors
byThe poet Sarah Carey, author of the chapbook Accommodations, not only shares the same first name as mine: more significantly, we share the same…
The Lion-Lambed Earth
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In W.S. Merwin’s inaugural address as United States Poet Laureate, he quoted his life-long hero, William Blake, who said, “To the eyes of…
God In a Single Vision
byDavid Brown is an analytic philosopher whose research has been described as following the Anglican via media (“a middle way”) tradition. He has made…
Mouthful of Flesh
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “I’m trying not to / make this a metaphor,” Kristin George Bagdanov writes in “Swallow,” one of many razor-sharp poems in her collection…
Incarnation and Reclamation
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lambflesh by Caroline Shea. Kelsay Books, 2019. 59 pages. $16. In the title poem of Caroline Shea’s Lambflesh, the speaker says “I am…