Still Loving the World
The “We” Behind the “I” in “Good Bones”—an essay by Kathleen Flenniken
All posts filed under: Essays
Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility
“Magical Realism is not so much about ghosts as possibility.” —an essay by Alberto Ríos
To Be in the Truth of Us
Just Us attends to the ways the structural violence of whiteness shapes identity and interactions. —an essay by Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine
A Sense of Location and an Act of Leave-Taking
Nan Cohen remembers the life and writing of Eavan Boland
Faith in the Particular
“Barot widens the circumference of lived experience in all its bittersweet rings.” —an essay by Jane Wong on the poems of Rick Barot
Touching Time: The Poetry and Performance of Charles Simic
“History consumes. It takes away and does not give back.”—an essay by Austen Leah Rose
On Rejection, the Language of Trauma, and the Rewards of Staying Open
“There was an inner story that I didn’t yet understand, and the publication problem served mainly as a distraction from it.”
—On Failure, by Nadia Colburn
Can Poetry Be a Vehicle for Social Change?
“At a time when economic injustice is at a near all-time high, unions are under attack, and art seems increasingly to have been subordinated to politics, it might do both worlds good to see where they intersect.”
—an essay by Alex Gallo-Brown
Time Flown
“Rekdal’s poems show characters amidst great transformations, and more importantly, allow the reader to change alongside them.”
Bill Carty on Paisley Rekdal’s Nightingale
Like a Veil: on Humanness, Shame, and Mark Baumer
by Jeff Alessandrelli | Contributing Writer