Essays
Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
An Intimate Provocation: Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense
Alter-Energies: The Vitalities of Absence in Moby Dick
“No country but our century”: Wong May, Poet of Lostness
Field Note: Why I Write to Birds
A Myth Against Empire
The Scribbles, the Rubbish, and the Mirrored Words
Persimmons
Mother Lode
Unmastering English: On the Work of Cathy Park Hong
Such Hints of Honey
When the Years are Gone: On Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove