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- A Review of Madeleine Cravens’s Pleasure PrincipleIn Madeleine Cravens’s debut collection, Pleasure Principle, the poem “Leaving” welcomes us, moving us through exit as a prelude to arrival. With a sophisticated command of technical elements, enhancing its thematic depth and emotional resonance, the enjambment constrains or sharply controls the reader. Cravens reminds us that we are in… Read more »
- Stellar Collisions: On the Compatibility of Physics and PoetryIs there a poet who exists who isn’t fascinated by the sky? Who hasn’t, at one point or another, laid on their back in a field or a desert or a parking lot or on top of a picnic table and felt dwarfed by the immensity of space? Who hasn’t… Read more »
- A Review of Julie Myerson’s Nonfiction: A NovelThe cover of Julie Myerson’s newest release seems to luxuriate in its contradictions. The title Nonfiction, rendered in a jumbo font, dominates the top margin while the only slightly smaller A Novel anchors the bottom. The book, first published in the UK in 2022 and released to American audiences in… Read more »
- A Conversation with Matthew LippmanMatthew Lippman is the author of six poetry collections. His latest collection, We Are All Sleeping With Our Sneakers On (2024), is published by Four Way Books. His previous collection Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful (2020) is published by Four Way Books. It was the recipient of the 2018 Levis Prize. ***… Read more »
- A Review of Nicolette Polek’s Bitter Water OperaBallet is a silent sport. Onstage, dancers are voiceless; offstage; they are often voiceless due to complex internal politics. In a rare publicity video for the American Ballet Theatre, the ballerina Diana Vishneva offered a more poetic angle on this silence: “The things that can be expressed by ballet are… Read more »
- A Conversation Between Melissa Fite Johnson and Leah UmanskyMelissa Fite Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Midlife Abecedarian (Riot in Your Throat, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, HAD, Whale Road Review, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Melissa, a high school English teacher, is a poetry editor for The Weight, a journal for high… Read more »
- A Review of Stephanie Choi’s The Lengest NeoiThe title of Stephanie Choi’s debut, The Lengest Neoi (University of Iowa Press, 2024), a mix of English and Cantonese, translates to “the prettiest girl” and underscores the in-between space the speaker straddles throughout the collection––not feeling enough for either side of Chinese-American identity and seeking some sort of individual… Read more »
- A Conversation with Robert PinskyRobert Pinsky’s new book of poems is Proverbs of Limbo. His spoken word PoemJazz album of the same title—Proverbs of Limbo—with musicians including Laurence Hobgood and Mino Cinélu, is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. He grew up in Long Branch, N.J., a historic seashore resort described in… Read more »
- A Conversation with Esteban RodríguezWhat if the cards in a game of chance–la lotería–came alive? A traditional game of chance popular in Mexico and in Mexican American culture, lotería is poetically rendered in Esteban Rodríguez’s eighth collection, with each poem revolving around one of its fifty-four cards. The cards range from el gallo (“The… Read more »
- A Review of Zoë Hitzig’s Not Us Now“You gave me this task./ I want to give it back.” Zoë Hitzig’s poem “Greedy Algorithm” ends on this couplet, creating a neat rhythm that encapsulates the exchange between speaker and addressee. As the task is passed between the “you” and “I,” rhyme creates a mirror between them, a confrontation… Read more »
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