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The Myriad Conflagrations of our Times: Chloe N. Clark’s Patterns of Orbit

In this collection, the reader can slipstream from space shuttle to submarine, from Grimm to Goldilocks to Charybdis, because a cautionary tale that’s never heeded is never out of date . . .

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The Spiritual Fact of Our Oneness: A Conversation with Charif Shanahan

“The world is literally and figuratively on fire. Of all the things we could do with our lives, why write poems?”

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Strength and Feeling in Motion: A conversation with Henri Cole about Gravity and Center

Horses are a nice metaphor for the sonnet’s strength and feeling in motion. Beauty and violent power come together in an animal form. When I write, I have the feeling of being a rider. As the poem gallops forward, I am knocked about.

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Travels in Paradise: Pico Iyer’s The Half Known Life

To try and gain a level of peace amidst the disappointment and chaos of the world is perhaps the only real paradise.

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A reflection on reflection: An interview with Katherine Indermaur

I did some research on how the vertical slash was used in different contexts, and fell in love with the Sheffer stroke.

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A story is like a nomad: An Interview with Geetanjali Shree

We must return again and again to the whole issue of hegemony of the English language

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Language as Possibility: Renee Gladman’s Plans for Sentences

. . . think of Gladman’s work as engaging the imagination the way an architect approaches three-dimensional space with a two-dimensional blueprint.

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Learning from Grief: Claudia Putnam’s Double Negative

Among the meanings of Claudia Putnam’s cryptic title is a mathematical one, based on the lower left quadrant of graphs; it is a meaning that she chooses, explicates, and explores…

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When The Pipes Inspired the Poets: A conversation with the Boiler House Poets Collective

The Boiler House held a magic, as it turned out, for all of us, with its sound installation clanging and pinging in the background, sun slanting through the pipes, pigeon feathers drifting, an occasional passerby pausing to listen.

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