Reading Whitman While White
It is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
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Han VanderHart
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Han VanderHart lives in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. She has poetry and essays published in the Boston Globe, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, AGNI, and elsewhere. She is the reviews editor at EcoTheo Review, the editor at Moist Poetry Journal, and the author of the poetry collection What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021).
The Revolutions of a Sonnet: frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
The richly historied form of the sonnet is a powerhouse for holding the past.
More Than Ordinary: If the House by Molly Spencer
Attention—where it is, where it is not—pervades If the House.
Violence and Tenderness: The Explosive Expert’s Wife by Shara Lessley
Lessley's poems remind us: “Because to cry's / a sign, to cry is proof, / there's life.”