Lee Sharkey is the author of Walking Backwards (Tupelo, 2016), Calendars of Fire (Tupelo, 2013), and five earlier books of poems, as well […]
Editors’ Selections
Shou Jie Eng is an architectural designer, researcher, and writer, whose work examines the relationships between spaces, bodies, […]
Four Divers by Shou Jie Eng
Melissa Ginsburg is author of the poetry collections Dear Weather Ghost and Doll Apollo (forthcoming from LSU Press) […]
A Folio of Poetry by Melissa Ginsburg
A chain of paper dolls: in Melissa Ginsburg’s hands, this simple childhood craft project becomes a metaphor for […]
An Introduction to Melissa Ginsburg by Emma Bolden
In the following excerpts from Mary-Kim Arnold’s poem “Soon,” fragmentary scenes deftly move between self-possessed desire, anxiety, and […]
An Introduction to Mary-Kim Arnold by Wendy Chen
Mary-Kim Arnold is the author of The Fish & The Dove (Noemi Press, 2020) and Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press, […]
from Soon by Mary-Kim Arnold
Amanda Gunn is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she studies Black poetics and Black pleasure. […]
A Folio of Poetry by Amanda Gunn
Eileen G’Sell’s “Nooners” is a glimpse into her new manuscript Manic Pixie Dream Songs. Here, the poetic legacy […]
An Introduction to Eileen G’Sell by Dora Malech
Let me be your Elizabeth Warren. Your wristwatch glints (but I don’t watch watches). My “escort” body adores […]
Nooners by Eileen G’Sell
The unique instincts for fresh language and uncommon address operating at the center of Shou Jie Eng’s poetry […]
An Introduction to Shou Jie Eng by Seth Brady Tucker
I grew up in a family that did not tell the story. I am listening to […]
One Candle Now, Then Seven More by Brad Aaron Modlin
This, my too-weak notice. I am tired with comparing my body to heavy things, of holding […]