Traci Brimhall is the author of four collections of poetry: Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press, 2020); Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), selected by Michelle […]
Brynn Saito’s “First Lines” and “Last Lines” weave together imperatives, fragments, and questions to create a mosaic of prayer. In these lines, the mystic trembles next to the animal, and sometimes is what’s animal in us. Line by line, the movements shimmer and resonate, and sometimes within a […]
Being a poet in Kansas is a lonely proposition at times. In the fall of 2017, I asked a couple of poets I knew lived in Kansas City, Hadara Bar-Nadav and Jenny Molberg, to have brunch with me. At the end of brunch we said “we should do this again”, […]
Recent years have seen an ever-increasing preoccupation with the ownership of literary texts, a desire to claim everything from lived experience to pieces of language and literary forms. One might argue that this proprietary approach to writing may be linked to an artistic tradition that has for so long privileged […]
