J. DREW LANHAM
Two Poems
What did the house sparrow witness
from asphalt level
Author: Staff
J. DREW LANHAM
Field Note: Why I Write to Birds
“When I can bring identification from field guide to feeling guide and into another’s conscious as a fellow living being worthy of adoration, the work for that sentence or stanza or story is, for the moment, done.”
WARREN C. LONGMIRE
Two Poems
All of which is no matter. No physical. That’s just the way he played.
NOʻU REVILLA
Three Poems
they taught each other how
long they could dangle
Interview // The Place of Return: Talking Story with Noʻu Revilla
“The page, for me, is all about the power of return.”
Interview // “Poems are Considerate Objects”: A Conversation with Claudia Castro Luna
“The moment we give up showing a different way of being with language and the imagination, we have lost.”
Interview // “Openings out of the Overlooked”: A Conversation Between Jenny Xie & Paul Hlava Ceballos
“What are ways of looking deeply, at a photograph or other archival filament, that allow us in the present to re-enter the past?”
Interview // “Abject Uncertainty”: A Conversation Between Jeff Alessandrelli & Ashley Yang Thompson
“The important thing is that the work conveys felt truth.”
MALVIKA JOLLY
Dream Daughter in the Pandemic Barbershop
in the garden,
memorizing root-verbs
We Are Not Untouchable
I wanted this, something to make my words feel real. Something that told me I could make a life out of writing poems.
–KB Brookins