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Jorie Graham’s Fast marks the fraught presence of an environmentally inclined writer whose most immediate environment, the body, confronts a foreclosed future.
Cecily Parks
Aaron Beasley interviews Rodrigo Toscano
Rodrigo Toscano, Aaron Beasley
A poem a day, everyday, in honor of National Poetry Month.
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These poems are urgent calls for rethinking our place on an imperiled planet.
Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [lukao] is a personal document of witness, shelter, history, and hope.
Emily Wolahan
Of the many words that might describe Lucie Brock-Broido, the most appropriate is extraordinary.
Mary Jo Bang
The poems collected in What Nature were written in the predawn of the Sixth Extinction Event.
Timothy Donnelly, B.K. Fischer, Stefania Heim
Harmony Holiday's new book, Hollywood Forever, is a warehouse of quotidian pleasures and horrors.
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
A posthumous collection of Joanne Kyger’s writing has the feel of a scrapbook with the weight of literary history.
Cassandra Cleghorn
In daring new translations of Uljana Wolf’s Subsisters and Wilson Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea, linguistic playfulness and political acuity overlap in breathtaking ways.
Henk Rossouw
The poets on this list offer not answers or remedies but instants, instantiations of the power of the lived word as it unfolds for readers in real time.
In Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Telepathologies, witnessing black death becomes an everyday thing.
Megan Fernandes
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