60 years of illuminating poetry

Now I Feel I Am On My Way

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Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle's Dunce

November 13, 2019

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Celebrating 60 years of poetry with Bruce Bond, Anna Maria Hong, Richard Kenney, Kenji C. Liu, Jeffrey Morgan, Allan Peterson, Kevin Phan, Michael Prior, Elizabeth Robinson, Cintia Santana, Mark Svenvold, Ellen Welcker, Yu Xiang | essays by David Rigsbee and Marian Janssen | & more

June 16, 2019

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Lines / from the current issue

Where does anything begin?
RICHARD KENNEY | Love

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PAULA CISEWSKI
The Empress at Large

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Having / inherited this current form

November 30, 2019

Poems

WOOGEE BAE
excerpts from mung

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The woken hours / What is seen as waste

November 25, 2019

Poems

STELLA WONG
Fu er dai

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I wondered how they found / my limping / tongue

November 18, 2019

Poems

TAIJE SILVERMAN
The Night I Slept with My High School English Teacher

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I want to begin this story where it ends.

November 11, 2019

Poems

commentary

Line Cook // Sherwin Bitsui + Hearty Mushroom, Sweet Potato & Bean Soup

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In which Senior Editor Keetje Kuipers pairs an episode of a literary podcast with a delicious recipe.

November 19, 2019

Line Cook

From the Edge of the Inside: the Drama of Paul Killebrew’s “The Bisexual Purge”

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Jay Aquinas Thompson on Oversound, Issue 5

November 5, 2019

Commentary, Other Rooms

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Features

Features, Native Poets Torchlight Series

Native Poets Torchlight Series

In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.

November 14, 2019

Features

RICHARD KENNEY | Tender Precison

Featuring an interview, essay and three poems.

October 15, 2019

Features

On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 4, 2019

Essays

More of a River

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"How can poetry, with only words at its disposal, work on us the way the world works on us?"

Jason Whitmarsh on the poetry of Richard Kenney

October 11, 2019

Essays

Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood

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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye

September 14, 2019

Essays

book reviews

November 25, 2019

So Anti-pretty It’s Actually Beautiful

Anna Newman on the poems of Tommy Pico

by Staff

October 21, 2019

Knots Pull Tighter Under Pressure

Bryce Emley on Sierra Golden's The Slow Art

by Staff

October 9, 2019

Framing And Unframing Until We Get It Right

Susan Moore on Julia Guez's In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame

by Staff

October 4, 2019

To What Safe Place

James Crews on Ted Kooser's Kindest Regards

by Staff

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