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- 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 »
- A Review of Arthur Sze’s The Silk Dragon IIThe Silk Dragon II (Copper Canyon, 2024) is an expanded version of the 2001 anthology of Chinese poetry by the American poet and translator Arthur Sze. Containing twenty-nine poets overall, this new edition features eighteen new translations—eight of them are poems by classical poets such as Li Bai, Zhang Ji,… Read more »
- A Conversation with Molly SpencerI first met Molly Spencer in a poetry Zoom room that bloomed during the early days of the COVID pandemic. A few months later, upon meeting her poetry collection, Hinge (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), I burnt through a few sleepless nights studying how the verbs sparkled as they shattered… Read more »
- A Review of Hannah Bonner’s Another WomanWhen I think on phrases with which I can tag this present moment, ones that anchor myself to others’ creations while acknowledging the nonsense that blinks along daily like check-engine lights on our lives’ dashboards, I always return to the phrase coined by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert as they… Read more »
- A Conversation With Meg PokrassFirst Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories brings together the best of Meg Pokrass’s flash fiction from over a decade of her career. Families reel from losses, doomed couples devour buttered popcorn, the daughter of a famous clown tries her hand at circus life; domesticity grows indistinguishable from the… Read more »
- A Review of Forrest Gander’s Mojave GhostForrest Gander calls Mojave Ghost a “novel-poem,” but it’s far more poem than novel. It is an extended elegy for C.D. Wright, his late wife, his mother, who died in the COVID pandemic, and himself. It is what Keats called a greeting of the spirit, a heartsore but empathic act… Read more »
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