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Featured poems, essays and interviews.

Simply Where We Live

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“Concrete gestures toward beauty, fragile investments in progress. Literal seeds sown.”

Alex Madison on Here: Poems for the Planet

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“In the time we have remaining, Kaminsky asks that we commit to exaltation as an honest response to our beleaguered world.”

Kristen Millares Young on Ilya Kaminsky

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“That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation . . . to whom you are beloved.”

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on Solmaz Sharif

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Jehanne Dubrow on the paintings of Jerzy Duda-Gracz

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by Oliver de la Paz | Contributing Writer

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Michelle Peñaloza on Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic

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by Julie Marie Wade | Contributing Writer

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Claudia Castro Luna on Violence and Silence in the Poems of Gregory Orr

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by Dan Beachy-Quick | Contributing Writer

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Light shone more persistently through trees made unfamiliar by the devastation to their branches.