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- A Review of Darius Atefat-Peckham’s Book of KinIn his debut collection, Book of Kin, Darius Atefat-Peckham states: “I want / To see what, at the tongue of a cracked bell, survives.” Atefat-Peckham is a poet deeply attuned to the cracks in the bell of language. To the “portholes,” as he refers to them, the little openings between… Read more »
- A Conversation with Jennifer ChangJennifer Chang and I met for this interview over video as we closed in on the darkest night of the year. It seems a disservice to describe our conversation in themes, as if one could bottle unfolding thought into neat piles: freedom; power; dreams; fragments and lyric; Asian American poetics;… Read more »
- And, Oh, the AngerEver since my first writing workshop, I longed to publish a book. To this end, I tried to write many—novels, stories, poems, essays. Most I managed to finish, though I succeeded in publishing none. At age fifty-six, after nearly forty years of trying, I found out that my manuscript BOOK… Read more »
- A Review of Paraic O’Donnell’s The Naming of the BirdsPoor Gideon Bliss and his dicky tummy. Whenever Bliss ventures into an odiferous area of London or casts his eyes upon a mutilated corpse—both unavoidable and regular occurrences for this London Metropolitan Police sergeant—he struggles not to retch. More often than not, his is a losing battle, for the serial… Read more »
- A Review of Kiran Bath’s Instructions for BannoKiran Bath’s Instructions for Banno is a tapestry of poems stitching matrimony and matriarchy. It’s about becoming and being a South Asian bride—and ultimately a woman in the world. “Banno” means bride in Punjabi, and the poems in the collection are from the perspective of different bannos: their fear, love,… Read more »
- A Review of Vi Khi Nao’s The Italy LettersBecause we are at the whim and fancy of external stimuli, we often find ourselves in contradiction. Perhaps, then, at the heart of the complexities that we so assuredly claim as human, is contradiction. Vi Khi Nao consistently embodies this tension in her writing. Known for her surreal rendering of… Read more »
- A Conversation Between Perry Janes and Leigh LucasPerry Janes is the author of the poetry collection Find Me When You’re Ready from Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Electric Literature, Poem-a-Day, Zyzzyva, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. He holds a BA from the University… Read more »
- A Review of Daniel Borzutzky’s The Murmuring Grief of the Americas“How do you quantify the murmuring grief of the Americas?” asked poet Daniel Borzutzky in his 2021 collection, Written After the Massacre of 2018, and he continues to ruminate on this question. The poems in The Murmuring Grief of the Americas continue to focus on opposition to capitalism, imperialism, and… Read more »
- A Conversation with Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner, The Dew Breaker, Claire of the Sea Light, and The Art of Death, a National Book Critics… Read more »
- A Review of Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s Winter of WorshipKayleb Rae Candrilli’s latest collection, Winter of Worship, is a collection steeped in grief, compulsively obsessed with time and slowing it, or reorganizing it—making it mappable in such a way that maybe, loss won’t feel so prevalent. Through crisply constructed poems including ghazals, haibuns, and the poet’s invented form, the… Read more »
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