Interview // “Abject Uncertainty”: A Conversation Between Jeff Alessandrelli & Ashley Yang Thompson
“The important thing is that the work conveys felt truth.”
Author: Staff
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
On Failure
In which writers investigate the practice of failure.
CHEKWUBE DANLADI
Affliction
I made a potion from the visiting plague
A Denser Shade
“A good book of scholarship suggests where scholarship could go next. And with Roethke, what comes next is often return.” —Zach Savich
One More Thing: Amorak Huey and Joshua Nguyen in Conversation
“They’re talking about real stuff, and sometimes it’s funny and sometimes you’re not sure you should be laughing, and poetry also so often lives in that same kind of in-between, uncomfortable space.”
One More Thing
Conversations with contributors and other writers curated by Helene Achanzar
CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA
Chubasco
because today’s rain
carries traces of yesteryear
JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH
Sonnet for Ukraine Refusing to End
I search for a word beyondÂ
repetition or prayer