Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“The Real Ambassadors: Reflections on the Politics of Poetic Representation” — by Andrea Applebee
“Pills, Snow, & Typewriters: An Interview with Sarah J. Sloat” – curated by Victoria Chang
“Between Crisis and Life: An Interview with Jacqueline Stolos” – curated by Wendy Chen
“Jacob Cooper’s Terrain: A Roundtable on Music, Poetry & Collaboration” – curated by Jacob Cooper, Greg Alan Brownderville, Dora Malech & Zach Savich
“The Age of Prophets: A Conversation with Rachel Abramowitz & a Folio of New Poetry” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“An Archeology of Myself: A Conversation with Novelist Nandini Bhattacharya” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“This Party’s Dead: A Conversation with Erica Buist & a Folio of Short Stories” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Allowing for strangeness in criticism: A Conversation with M.I. Devine & a Short Film” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Silence holds all things: A Conversation with Poet & Physician Matthew Mumber” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“‘The tension between the lyrical and narrative’: A Conversation with Writer & Editor Elizabeth A.I. Powell” – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Una traición más alta: Contemporary Mexican Poets II” — edited by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
“Future Readers: A Micro-(inter)-view with Srikanth Reddy” – curated by Lisa Olstein
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Darcie Abbene — “Go On, Then”
Curated & introduced by Emma Bolden
Jenny Grassl — “Queen Anne’s Black Lace,” “Attend the Crowning Head,” & “Hem of Fire”
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
JP Grasser — “Pathetic Fallacy,” “The Scales,” & “Heavy Machinery”
Curated & introduced by Tony Trigilio
Brad Aaron Modlin — “One Candle Now, Then Seven More”
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Ashanti Anderson — “Self Portrait in Blackface,” “Self Portrait as Overseer,” & “Resignation”
Curated & introduced by Simone Muench
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist chosen & interviewed by Elaine Sexton
A Special Forum: Poetry in the Pandemic
Editor’s Introduction by Kristina Marie Darling
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar — “Late March”
George Looney — “Silence Doesn’t Even Have a Hint”
Dean Rader — “Meditation on Absence”
Elizabeth Robinson — “The Sign”
Meredith Stricker — “ON THE WAY TO THE RUINS”
Zoe Ryder White — from Via Post
Jessica Yuan — “Bureau of Decline”
Prose
Rachel Abramowitz — “To defy the gods: Form, Resilience & Capaciousness in Shira Dentz’s Sisyphusina“
Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade — from In Lieu of Flowers: A Quarantine Collaboration
Carol Guess & Suzanne Paola — “The Body Politic”
Rachel Howard — from The Song Is Always an Instruction in How to Sing
Wes Jamison — from Echo Frequency
Jeannine Ouellette — “Overview Effect”
Keene Short — from Ambivalent Cartography
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Mary-Kim Arnold – “Ahead, the formless field”
Kristy Bowen — A Portfolio of Cinepoetry: “Swallow 2,” “Swallow 3,” “Swallow 4,” & “Swallow 5”
Rachel Eliza Griffiths — Lyric Films: “Lighting the Shadow” & “Dust Road: Self Portrait”