All posts filed under: Essays

Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.

The Music of the Zone

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“The Zone of Stalker becomes shorthand for us to talk about the forbidden spots of a poem.” -John Wall Barger

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“I learned that poems may be deliberate and arbitrary at the same time.”—an essay by Julie Marie Wade

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An essay by Justin Jannise

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“The poem will tell us the depths to which we will need to go.”—an essay by Bettina Judd

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an essay by Weston Morrow

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The “We” Behind the “I” in “Good Bones”—an essay by Kathleen Flenniken

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“Magical Realism is not so much about ghosts as possibility.” —an essay by Alberto Ríos

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Just Us attends to the ways the structural violence of whiteness shapes identity and interactions. —an essay by Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine

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Nan Cohen remembers the life and writing of Eavan Boland

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“Barot widens the circumference of lived experience in all its bittersweet rings.” —an essay by Jane Wong on the poems of Rick Barot