Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
A Celebration of New Books: A Multimedia Roundtable — curated by Mary-Kim Arnold
A Forum on Disability Poetics — curated by Christopher Salerno
“Memory, distant or recent as the case might be”: A Conversation with Poet & Scholar Roger Craik about His New Book, In Other Days — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“I can look back at that living world from a shaded distance”: A Conversation with Rachel Abramowitz & An Excerpt from The Birthday of the Dead — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Life insists on poetry”: A Conversation with Tina Cane & an Excerpt from The Year of the Murder Hornet — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
Writing, Community, and Empowerment: A Conversation with Poet & Entrepreneur Cynthia Good – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Against a nondescript, endless expanse”: A Conversation with Beth McDermott and an excerpt from Figure 1 – curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“To define good and bad for themselves”: A Conversation with Maya Sonenberg about Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters & a New Short Story — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“A revenge upon the intruding grief”: A Conversation with Pamela Wax & an Excerpt from Walking the Labyrinth — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“I see experimental poetry as inherently political”: A Conversation with Emma Winsor Wood & an Excerpt from The Real World — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“Leaving Any Cultural Differences Untouched”: A Conversation with Tana Oshima & A Translation Process – curated by Naoko Fujimoto
“The Arc Moves a Little Upward”: A Conversation with Victoria Chang — curated by Lisa Olstein
“No Day Arrives Untethered to Other Days”: A Conversation with Dana Levin — curated by Lisa Olstein
A Review of Dara Yen Elerath’s Dark Braid — curated by Esteban Rodriguez
“Outside the Circle”: A Conversation with John James & A Portfolio of New Poems — curated by Henk Rossouw
“To acknowledge fracture is to depart from the linear”: A Conversation with Adrian Lürssen about History’s Echoes and the Poetry of Displacement – curated by Henk Rossouw
“To no one but my heart or it to me”: A Conversation with Sarah Arvio about Cry Back My Sea — curated by Tiffany Troy
“Walk I Must”: A Conversation with Susan Bernofsky about Clairvoyant of the Small — curated by Tiffany Troy
“The Dark Side of the Image”: A Conversation with Kristin Bock — curated by Tiffany Troy
“I hear a heron—each of us trying to unfurl our heavy wings”: A Conversation with Katie Marya about Sugar Work — curated by Tiffany Troy
Translating Twisted Tales: A Conversation with Lara Vergnaud about Translating Life Sciences by Joy Sorman — curated by Tiffany Troy
“All the time in the world”: An Interview with Melody S. Gee — curated by Wendy Chen
“Different distortions of this so-called machine”: An Interview with Lucy Zhang – curated by Wendy Chen
Editor’s Selections in Poetry & Prose
Martha Collins — “They” & “Conference of the Parties”
Curated & introduced by Emma Bolden
Darien Hsu Gee — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Mitchell Glazier — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Aviya Kushner – A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Noel Quinones — “Guineitos”
Curated & introduced by Seth Brady Tucker
Elizabeth Powell — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Judith Small — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Rodrigo Toscano — A Portfolio of Poetry
Curated & introduced by Henk Rossouw
Abigail Ardelle Zammitt — “Bush Diary” & “Speak to Me”
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist selected by Mary Kathryn Jablonski.
Editors’ Selections in Visual Art
Each artist selected by David Powell.
Outsider/Insider: An interview with Ric Haynes
Timepieces: The Clockworks of Luciana Frigerio
The Visual Vocabulary of Drew Goerlitz: The Poetics of Hidden Information
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Michael McKee Green — Bios: (1), (2), (3)
Mark McKain — “Rough Transformation,” “Jonah’s Last Shot,” “Jonah’s Garden I,” Spring Machine,” “Alpha-Oranism”
Poetry
Amanda Auchter — “Imaginary Son: Creation,” “Mary Immaculate,” & “Ubume”
Ayelet Amittay — from Testament
Barbara Berg — “Something about vibration...” & “Even in this mess...”
Kristin Bock & LI Henley — A Portfolio of Collaborative Poetry
Nicole Callihan — “Watching the Livestream Dissection”
M. Cynthia Cheung — “The Shores of Babylon”
Patrice Boyer Claeys — “Artichokes”
Nan Cohen — from The Lost Notebooks: 11 & from The Lost Notebooks: 13
Stephen Cramer — A Portfolio of Poetry
Anjanette Delgado — “Fuck the Birds”
H.E. Fisher — “My Family Was Organized Around War,” “Arms,” & “Displacement”
Stefania Gomez — A Portfolio of Poetry
Cynthia Good — A Portfolio of Poetry
Carlie Hoffman — “Grandfather Reading Celan in Middletown, NY,” “Give the Lake a Moment to Speak About the Horses,” & “After”
Ken Holland — A Portfolio of Poetry
K.T. Landon — “How to Rescue the Stunned Bird”
Alex Mouw — “Argument with Orthopedics”
Barbara Murphy — “Our Quiet Spring”
Genevieve Payne — “You Were Beside Yourself” & “Skowhegan”
Meg Shevenock — A Portfolio of Poetry
Marisa Siegel — “nothing gold”
Leigh Sugar — A Portfolio of Poetry
Kira Tucker — “Total Climate,” “Frontier,” “Edict,” & “Together, We”
Julie Marie Wade — from This Is Jeopardy!
Prose
Laurie Blauner — “Future Notes Under Stones”
Olivia Elle — “The Goddess of the Sky”
Nicole Haroutunian — “Three Times I Breathed Other People’s Breath and No One Thought About Death”
Matthew Pitt — “The Reincarnate Word” & An Excerpt from The Be-Everything! Brothers
Pearls Gleaming in Broad Daylight: A Celebration of Literary Criticism
Juliana Converse on The Book of Treasures
Ellen Elder on The Lantern Room
C.W. Emerson on April at the Ruins
Francis X. Fitzpatrick on Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters
Elizabeth Strauss Friedman on The Queen of Queens
Cheryl Passanisi on City Scattered
Cheryl Passanisi on Walking the Labyrinth
Translation
Paul Valery – from French Leave: “Cemetery by the Sea” – translated by Cliff Forshaw
The Homeric Hymnists – “Hymn to Σελήνη” – translated by Fortunato Salazar
Lee Min-ha — “House of Parrots” — translated by Jein Han
Sappho — from After Words: 53 Versions from Sappho to Claribel Alegría — translated by Steve Kronen
Grzegorz Wróblewski – A Portfolio of Poetry – Translated by Peter Burzyński
Wu Xueya — “The moon is a leaf falling from the cosmos” – translated by Mimi Chang
Xiao Yin – “Lhasa is on another street” – Mimi Chang
Zhang Zhihao – “Song of the Pumpkin” – translated by Yuemin He