When the Years are Gone: On Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove
“This is a collection about preservation.”—an essay by Luther Hughes
Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
“This is a collection about preservation.”—an essay by Luther Hughes
“What would the objects around us look like if we were centered, open?”—an essay by John Wall Barger
“Origin is first origin”—an essay by Natalie A. MartĂnez
“It isn’t enough to hold someone’s sorrow in your body till it ferments into song. Witnessing isn’t enough. You must become the sorrow.”—an essay by Claudia F. Saleeby Savage
“Poems don’t replace the organizing—they supplement it.”—an essay by Troy Osaki
“It’s love, but slanted, in slow motion.”—an essay by Julia Anna Morrison
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
“Vuong shows the world for the truth of all its sharp and beautiful teeth.” —a visual essay Tessa Hulls
“Perhaps conversations among RĂos’ works are most evident in the ones about the border, where the elbow taps of solidarity acknowledge the tenuous ground upon which an idea that becomes a fence that becomes a wall is built.”—an essay by Donna Miscolta
“By simplifying language, diction, detail, a poem can transcend the ‘lean moment’ and brush up against an intimate and unshakable truth.”—an essay by D.S. Waldman