In Saba Husain’s poem Elegy for My Tongue, from a collection with the same title (Terrapin Books, 2023), […]
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Nothing and no one is immune from the lens of trauma and its effects as humans go about […]
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Shannon Vare Christine on What Happened Was by Katharine Haake
While virtually every news outlet continues coverage of the war in Ukraine, the focus of these stories is […]
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Lauren Camp’s poetry is remarkable for its ability to bend time, its unexpected word choices and collage of […]
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The cover art of Stephen Massimilla’s newest book, Frank Dark, is a self-portrait. It depicts one human eye […]
Sandra Fees on Stephen Massimilla’s Frank Dark
Earth, Another Mother on Morphine Robert Carr’s rapturously detailed poems sound a call to observe—toward keeping—(ob-, toward, and […]
Jenny Grassl on Robert Carr’s The Heavy of Human Clouds
“We folded our feathers at dawn,” Russell Karrick says in his opening poem “Delirium” [p. 1], “perched in […]
AE Hines on Russell Karrick’s The Way Back
“Death is a nagging grit, that grain I keep / worrying furiously into the pearl of art— // […]
AE Hines on Morri Creech’s The Sentence
As I sat down to write about Ore Choir, Kate Didden’s gorgeous book of poems subtitled The Lava […]
Kirsten McAteer on Katie Didden’s Ore Choir
Can we rewild? It feels to me like one of the most important questions of our time. Can […]
Kirsten McAteer on Meredith Stricker’s Rewild
PROCESS NOTES These poems are from 离离草 Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective’s poetry writing workshops in 2023. […]