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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 ChirringCrickets Chirring
    “to make the journey darker,/some watch cigarette smoke worm/its way toward the sublime.” | by Lance Larsen
  • ALFREDO GERMONT EATS A GRANOLA BARALFREDO GERMONT EATS A GRANOLA BAR
    “to savor the small treat hidden…//by the distance imposed on us” | by Suzanne Cleary
  • CrowCrow
    “for how you outlived the awful wait/that fear can make of longing…//….we find bright ways to survive.” | by Geffrey Davis

Reviews


Dispatches


Interviews


  • “Here’s my Sukun”"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 DystopiaThe Poetics of Climate Dystopia
    On motherhood, climate anxiety, and the (dis)comfort of writing in form | Anna Gasaway talks to Claire Wahmanholm
  • Of Things Never Told BeforeOf Things Never Told Before
    On 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 ParisLes Negres de Paris
    “…Every back, / it seems, is a blood neighbor” | Kwame Dawes
  • The Lesser GodsThe Lesser Gods
    “But what about all the modest / neglected deities–the overlooked” | by Ellen Bass
  • The AssignmentThe 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