The Biography of a Poem
by Julie Marie Wade | Contributing Writer
All posts filed under: Essays
Featured poems, essays and interviews.
That Ocean Inside Us
Claudia Castro Luna on Violence and Silence in the Poems of Gregory Orr
Lyric Consciousness
by Dan Beachy-Quick | Contributing Writer
In Case of Emergency
Light shone more persistently through trees made unfamiliar by the devastation to their branches.
On the Genesis of Self-Articulation and Solidarity
Who do you understand yourself to be now that you live there?
Close Entanglements
Bill Carty on the poetry of A.E. Stallings
A Poetics of Tectonic Scale
Katy Didden on the “Great Distance” Poems of Marianne Moore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Layli Long Soldier
“I Made Myself Laugh and so I Forgot about the Point I Was Making”—on O’Hara, Bishop, and the Poetics of Delight
by Ellene Glenn Moore | Contributing Writer
Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”
“I believe poetry is language’s most radical possibilities, possibilities which include prose and what prose is capable of expressing, but with the freeing capability of moving beyond limiting grammatical structures and linguistic norms as needed.”
Jill Twist: The Only Thing, a Photo Essay
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead