To Shape Full-throated Songs: A Tribute to Garrett Hongo
“We all know how to hear, but Garrett makes us listen. Not just to the words, but to the music of poetry.”
by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Author: Staff
Looking Into the Meat of the Word: An Appreciation of Garrett Hongo
“To be a former student of Garrett Hongo’s is to pay him tribute whenever you meet another writer, whenever you speak about writing, about poetry, whenever you teach, whenever you sit down to write . . .”
by Michelle Peñaloza
Eat the Fucking Body, or Brief Anecdotes from an Apprenticeship
“Hongo gives you an opportunity. It’s up to you to take it. And if you do, you’re either successful and the lessons continue, or they don’t. But at the very least, you always know where you stand.”
by Joshua Robbins
I don’t think you’re doing it right: Garrett Hongo & the Late Style of Humanity
“The work of the song, as Garrett sings it, is to unfold the true name of the thing.”
by Jeffrey Schultz
To Compel Forgiveness and Forgive
Margaryta Golovchenko on James Arthur’s The Suicide’s Son
AMAUD JAMAUL JOHNSON
Pacman
These red-blooded Americans.
That look of disappointment
Make Myself & Not Let Myself Be Made
Holli Carrell on the letters of Sylvia Plath
SHAMAR HILL
Two Poems
I’m lost in time, in waves of light seizing the prints, watching my own death before I existed;
I speak to him, sometimes, like a will against abstraction.
TARA BALLARD
Self-Portrait with Thorn & Sea
I paint my face and neck until I am wholly that
and walk deeper into the sea.
If Beauty Can Be Salvaged
Jenna Le on Mary Peelen’s Quantum Heresies