PICTURES FROM THE CAMERA WE THREW AWAY (SHAHWAH) I split the fridge’s innards for carrot cake and think about 4:45pm the reek of gasoline he looks at me like the back of my mother’s Corolla Christ opher Columbus has been decapitated in Boston the summer is still new and stubborn he tells […]
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Mai Der Vang discusses her new poetry collection, YELLOW RAIN.
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In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
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You’ve done this before, you know. In so many bodies.
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Jacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
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How to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?
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Jan Beatty discusses her new memoir, AMERICAN BASTARD.
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My mother’s words / explode volcanic vowels.
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Ashley M. Jones discusses her new poetry collection, REPARATIONS NOW!.
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Frighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
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Kaveh Akbar discusses his new collection, PILGRIM BELL.
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Resonance is a given. You can’t help but hear. In Lauren Shapiro’s Arena, every seat is the best seat in the house.
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“Writing in this way allows me to put order in this disordered world.”
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Barrier becomes a name // for guarding ourselves.
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With Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez, and Gaia Rajan.
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The Absurd Man is confident and daring with a muscular specificity of language that is both deeply resonant for a wide audience and also singular to the poet.
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“We wanted to give voice to people who are often spoken for.”
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I am a swell that breaks / against the rigging, teeth that tear the tide
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This collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.
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Julie Marie Wade discusses her newest poetry collection, SKIRTED.
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A family’s grief traps generations in a search for insight.
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On screen, I’m peering up a faintly lit staircase and all goes grainy.
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Poet Oliver de la Paz discusses art-making, hybrid forms, and his work.
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The richly historied form of the sonnet is a powerhouse for holding the past.
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I keep my distance. / I know it is a place for animals.
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“[T]he testimonial form is rebellious; it says that it will record what the state tried to erase.”
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This is the site / of an infinite swallowing.
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Andrés Cerpa discusses his new poetry collection, THE VAULT.
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Kevin Simmonds discusses his new collection, THE MONSTER I AM TODAY.
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