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Browse a complete table of contents from our 25th Anniversary Issue!
FEATURED: From our 25th Anniversary issue, readings by Ellen Bass and Kwame Dawes, and Chana Bloch on translation.
REVIEWS: Catherine Imbroglio on Jennifer Franklin’s If Some God Shakes Your Home, Emily Pérez on Cintia Santana’s The Disordered Alphabet, Michael Collins on Nancy Naomi Carlson’s Piano in the Dark
POETRY: New poems from the 2023 PI Prize finalists—Lance Larsen, Suzanne Cleary, and Geffrey Davis.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Neil Philip, Orphan Veli, Amy Gerstler and others on the theme of Spinning Beauty!
…and much more!
Poetry
- Crickets Chirring“to make the journey darker,/some watch cigarette smoke worm/its way toward the sublime.” | by Lance Larsen
- ALFREDO GERMONT EATS A GRANOLA BAR“to savor the small treat hidden…//by the distance imposed on us” | by Suzanne Cleary
- Crow“for how you outlived the awful wait/that fear can make of longing…//….we find bright ways to survive.” | by Geffrey Davis
Reviews
- A Proleptic RequiemIf Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin | Reviewed by Catherine Imbriglio
- A Well and a WellspringThe Disordered Alphabet by Cintia Santana | Reviewed by Emily Pérez
- “unearthed from below—fire-eyed”Piano in the Dark by Nancy Naomi Carlson | reviewed by Michael Collins
Dispatches
- Exploring Poems as LettersA poet shares thoughts on the epistolary, with a prompt to try! | by Melissa Studdard
- Visual Poetry Rethinks the PageOn bringing the magic of image to the page, a poet contemplates | by Anna Leahy
- On Overwhelm: What Am I to Do but Know These Things?In the face of war, conflict, and the human suffering it brings, what do we do? A poet and founder of The Mindfulness Initiative at American University reflects | by David Keplinger
Interviews
- “Here’s my Sukun”On stillness as punctuation, the pause before moving forward, a parent’s death, aftershocks, and what’s next | Blas Falconer talks to Kazim Ali
- The Poetics of Climate DystopiaOn motherhood, climate anxiety, and the (dis)comfort of writing in form | Anna Gasaway talks to Claire Wahmanholm
- Of Things Never Told BeforeOn myths and muses, radical artifice, genre switching, and the love of children’s poetry | Joseph Thomas talks to Neil Philip
from our 25th Anniversary Issue
- Les Negres de Paris“…Every back, / it seems, is a blood neighbor” | Kwame Dawes
- The Lesser Gods“But what about all the modest / neglected deities–the overlooked” | by Ellen Bass
- The Assignment“the poem gripped me and would not let go until I’d turned it into English” | Chana Block on her first translation.
From the Archives
- from “Poems para Papa”“He was sparse in his words / And generous in his loves” | by Marjorie Agosin
- My Gold-Toothed One“Come, my darling, come with me:” | by Orphan Veli
- Vernal House“All the little cries of light / glisten like icons in the darkest valleys” | by Maurya Simon
- Overblown Roses“to show me how the world began / and ended in perfection.” | by Mimi Khalvati
- Saints“They shrug their bodies off and waft with clouds of celestial perfume.” | by Amy Gerstler
- Things That Were Hidden“At the very lip of light. / As my hands wrapped round her,” | by Neil Philip