“Veraison” By Peter Kline I didn’t know what I was feeling.If I had changed it was like the change of cancer,disobedience flickering like a broken…
Sunday Staff Pick: October 10th
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems by N. Scott Momaday “a book of poems arrived in the afternoon a bound excitement” (haiku…
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Starving and Sated
Editor (now alumna) Maddie Woda reviews Jihyun Yun’s first collection, Some Are Always Hungry. In 2016, I stumbled upon Jihyun Yun’s poem “Recipe: Dak-dori-tang” in…
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Close Reading Series: Morgan Levine on “Sonnet”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
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Close Reading Series: Spencer Grayson on “Newly, rendered, truly”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
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Close Reading Series: Maddie Woda on “The Crushing Pain of Existence”
The Close Reading Series invites our board editors to write about a favorite piece from our Spring 2020 issue. These readings are not intended to…
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Bryn Evans: Weight, Time, & the Afrofuture
AN INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY MORGAN LEVINE Bryn Evans received our Spring 2020 Poetry Prize for her poem “Thotiana’s interlude, or Barbara Mason reconsiders settling down.”…
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Landscape from a Train by Anja Chivukula
Red, all the olive fields were limned with ruddy gold, laden branches sprouting furrows, tangled boughs that carved them- selves in gaps between the morning,…
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Archivettes by Claire Adler
1. Scattered with nebulous crockery we talk mothers their grief, their limpid yearning. Your father is to my father only quantitatively. His grandmother and her…
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Babel Unbuilt: Alan Shapiro’s Against Translation
“Beginning with the fall of towers and ending with the emergence of a new voice, the mastery of Against Translation is clear…”