A Small Dislocation
“Kinnell’s poetry can show us that the cup of trembling . . . must be lived with, if anything that might assemble itself toward joy could ever possibly be found.”
Devin Kelly on the poetry of Galway Kinnell
All posts filed under: Essays
Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
Simply Where We Live
“Concrete gestures toward beauty, fragile investments in progress. Literal seeds sown.”
Alex Madison on Here: Poems for the Planet
Something Silent in Us Strengthens
“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
My Dear collateral damage
“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
Autoportret
Jehanne Dubrow on the paintings of Jerzy Duda-Gracz
Not an Elegy
“Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet.”
Image: “Dreams In Black and White”, 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith
Thirty-One Tiny Failures and One Labyrinth: On Parenting and Writing
by Oliver de la Paz | Contributing Writer
How to Listen to Water
Michelle Peñaloza on Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic
The Biography of a Poem
by Julie Marie Wade | Contributing Writer
That Ocean Inside Us
Claudia Castro Luna on Violence and Silence in the Poems of Gregory Orr