Process Note This collaborative project configures the body in different contexts and explores how to articulate a sense […]
Tiffany Troy
The title “Swansdown” is evocative of the mythical realm of swans, downy feathers, and lakes serene and idyllic […]
Cheryl Passanisi on Donald Platt’s Swansdown
Brandon Rushton’s debut poetry book, The Air in the Air Behind It, begins with an epigraph from Anne […]
Margaret Kean on Brandon Rushton’s The Air in the Air ...
The opening poem of Seán Mac Falls’s Garden Theology, “Sonnet of Morning” sets the gentle yet delightfully atmospheric […]
Yasmine Guiga on Sean McFall’s Garden Theology
Chalk Song animates word herds to run with animals to the brink of the unconscious, falling in with […]
Lovers, Fingers in Dust: Jenny Grassl on Chalk Song, a ...
Ore Choir sings an ode to Lava, in the voice of Lava. Yet, like Whitman’s song these visual […]
Jenny Grassl on Katy Didden’s Ore Choir: The Lava on ...
The Western poetic canon offers us certain things we can mostly all agree upon: John Keats, Emily Dickinson, […]
Kiss the Bird-eyed Wind: Karin Falcone on Chike Nzerue’s Architecture ...
Nearly 100 years ago Virginia Woolf considered female inheritance in the arts. In A Room of One’s Own […]
For We Think Back Through Our Mothers if We are ...
Eileen Cleary’s 2 a.m. with Keats begins with a lament for the dead. This could simply be a […]
Listening to the Dead: Alexis David on Eileen Cleary’s 2AM ...
In Today in the Taxi, Sean Singer contemplates his taxi cab clients in the short period they spend […]
Looking into a secret world, with their glitter and muscle, ...

Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and a recipient of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction. […]
“I bask, a fugitive from the confines of my own ...

Marianne Worthington grew up in urban Appalachia, listening to country and folk music and letting it live within […]