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Poetry

Manacled to a Whelm

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

Poetry

A Poetics of Ghosting

Aaron Beasley interviews Rodrigo Toscano

Rodrigo Toscano, Aaron Beasley

Poetry

National Poetry Month 2018

A poem a day, everyday, in honor of National Poetry Month.

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Poetry

What Nature

These poems are urgent calls for rethinking our place on an imperiled planet.

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Poetry

Where Islands End and Begin

Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [lukao] is a personal document of witness, shelter, history, and hope.

Emily Wolahan

Poetry

In Memoriam: Lucie Brock-Broido

Of the many words that might describe Lucie Brock-Broido, the most appropriate is extraordinary.

Mary Jo Bang

Poetry

Introducing “What Nature”

The poems collected in What Nature were written in the predawn of the Sixth Extinction Event.

Timothy Donnelly, B.K. Fischer, Stefania Heim

Poetry

Glowing with Absence and Merchandise

Harmony Holiday's new book, Hollywood Forever, is a warehouse of quotidian pleasures and horrors.

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Poetry

Public Intimacies

A posthumous collection of Joanne Kyger’s writing has the feel of a scrapbook with the weight of literary history.

Cassandra Cleghorn

Poetry

Border Lyrics

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

Poetry

Our Top 25 Poems of 2017

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.

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Poetry

A Body of Shifting Resilience

In Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Telepathologies, witnessing black death becomes an everyday thing.

Megan Fernandes

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