Absence as a Silhouette: On Writing Becoming Ribbons
“Erasure poetics . . . can continue to create that wedge, that finger-hole into seeing a typographic absence as a silhouette of a person or entity that once was.”
Author: Claire Tuna
Dreamlike Transformation: On Gabriella R. Tallmadge’s Sweet Beast
“. . . the speaker reckons with how to love and live in a marriage that is dissolving.”
Re/Mark-Able: Black Women Poets’ Punctuation(!
“When a black woman poet refuses punctuation, she is refusing more than standard English. She is also refusing to allow the marks of history to (over)determine her writing.”
The Palinode’s Ethics of Questioning
“The tension of a palinode comes from admitting a blindness that needs to be addressed—to expose the story of your old poem as a preconceived myth.”
A Guide to Disorientation: Dana Levin’s Now Do You Know Where You Are
. . . the collection is concerned with all kinds of disorientation–literal, figurative, physical, and spiritual–and the despair that comes with navigating unknown terrains.
Dead Poets Love Us Back: On Polina Barskova’s Air Raid
The voices to which Barskova has turned her obsessive, greedy, undeceived attention in Air Raid are not easy voices to listen to, but they are voices she is rescuing even as her poetry . . . is rescuing her, line by line.
Interview // Irregular Life: A Conversation with Brandon Brown
We talked about Bernadette Mayer, experimental writing, and courting uncertainty.
“No country but our century”: Wong May, Poet of Lostness
“No matter how far you stray, your origin beckons you.”
Interview // “Emotional Realities that Expand in the White Space”: A Conversation with Natalee Cruz
“The constant translations and riffs were my attempts to understand my father.”