“We live on familiar terms with the people in our own family, our own milieu, our own class. This constant impression of familiarity makes us think that we know them, that their outlines are defined for us, and that they see themselves as having those same outlines. We […]
Sasha Steensen is the author of four books of poems, most recently House of Deer (Fence Books) and Gatherest (Ahsahta Press). She has published several essays, including “Openings: Into Our Vertical Cosmos,” which can be read as an online chapbook by Essay Press at www.essaypress.org/ep-40. She teaches […]
I’m delighted to introduce Sasha Steensen’s “Practicing in the Sleepingfields.” Before delving into the poem’s syntactic feats on the level of the sentence, it necessary to highlight Steensen’s daring use of form. The long poem is often invoked to account for the movement of history, whether it’s an […]
Well past twilight now. Go your ways in the black ship, I tell myself as I lay myself down. Then, I take a walk. The raccoon circling the coop barely looks at me. The baby skunk hunting grubs in the garden doesn’t lift his tail up. My cat […]