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  • ON FAILURE

    by Staff

    In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

    March 20, 2018
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Lines / from the current issue

Iron Man is first / to pop a balloon.

Owen McLeod | All Saints' Eve

poem of the week

ANNA LEIGH KNOWLES Burying the Time Capsule at Dark Not Long After the Columbine High School Shooting

Published by Staff

From that day forward, we rattled inside

April 18, 2018
Poems

MELISSA STEIN Jigsaw

Published by Staff

Out in the field, / wheat, and in the wheat, weevils.

April 16, 2018
Poems

ROBERT GIBB Dog Days Notebook

Published by Staff

"the only light the road itself, glistening like whaleback"

April 10, 2018
Poems

FERNANDO PÉREZ Meditations on an Open Field

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Every tongue leaf stomped / by child’s cleats.

April 2, 2018
Poems

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Features

Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South

Essays and poems by Shamala Gallagher, Kimberly Alidio, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Sarah Gambito, Tiana Nobile, and Ching-In Chen

December 13, 2017
Features

Native Poets Torchlight Series: Cedar Sigo

Four poems, with an interview by guest editor Jennifer Elise Foerster

September 28, 2017
Features

On Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet: Complete Edition

Three excerpts, with an interview by translator Margaret Jull Costa and an essay on the book's publication.

September 8, 2017

Essays

The Biography of a Poem

Published by Staff

by Julie Marie Wade | Contributing Writer

March 28, 2018
Essays

That Ocean Inside Us

Published by Staff

Claudia Castro Luna on Violence and Silence in the Poems of Gregory Orr

January 29, 2018
Essays

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April 15, 2018

Adamant Animal Selfhood

Alyse Knorr on Sarah Giragosian's Queer Fish

by Staff
April 6, 2018

Thousands of Silences Fell

Joannie Stangeland on Melinda Mueller's Mary's Dust

by Staff
March 22, 2018

Help Me I’m Partial

Gabrielle Bates on Montreux Rotholtz's Unmark

by Staff
February 26, 2018

Somewhere between God and Mineral

Essy Stone on Nicole Sealey's Ordinary Beast

by Staff

commentary

Interview // There Isn’t a Metaphor for Everything: A Conversation with Jane Wong

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by Jacob Uitti | Contributing Writer

March 7, 2018
Commentary, Interviews

Line Cook // F. Douglas Brown + Slow-Roasted Tuna with Harissa and Olives

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by Keetje Kuipers | Associate Editor

February 17, 2018
Commentary, Line Cook

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