A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
“Marrying then and now, that’s a ploy to be sensible, to recognize in my childhood-self the simplification and wishful thinking, to overlay some hard truth, and to acknowledge that I’m chained to this country by love.”
“Your poems are a product of that conflict between the seeds you plant and what you actually cultivate.”
Conducted by Shriram Sivaramakrishnan
“It isn’t enough to hold someone’s sorrow in your body till it ferments into song. Witnessing isn’t enough. You must become the sorrow.”—an essay by Claudia F. Saleeby Savage
“Poems don’t replace the organizing—they supplement it.”—an essay by Troy Osaki
“I always felt the poem before I had any idea about its meaning. A good poem is essentially unknowable.”
“It’s love, but slanted, in slow motion.”—an essay by Julia Anna Morrison
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
Greg Bem on Chath pierSath’s On Earth Beneath Sky
“I’m reminded that sometimes the poem comes after I’ve written what I think I need to say, when the will gives up, when the imagination takes over, allowing me to see a bit beyond my very limited perspective.”—Blas Falconer
