The Music of the Zone
“The Zone of Stalker becomes shorthand for us to talk about the forbidden spots of a poem.” -John Wall Barger
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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
Dear Diary: My Struggle with the Personal
“I don’t want to write about me. I want to write about the underpinnings of me, which might also be the underpinnings of you.”—Lauren Shapiro
Notes on Myanmar’s Poets
by Greg Bem
Interview // Fruitful and Dangerous: A Conversation with Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
“What does it mean to let the eye linger? Where will it go? What will I see?”
One More Thing: A Conversation with January Gill O’Neil and Andy Sia
“Poetry is a way . . . to turn the language on itself again and again.”
Wago Ryoichi’s Poetics of Catastrophe
translated and introduced by Ayako Takahashi and Judy Halebsky
Going in Fear of Negation: What Happens When We Stop Saying ‘No’?
An essay by Justin Jannise
A Triptych on Toi Derricotte
“The poem will tell us the depths to which we will need to go.”—an essay by Bettina Judd
Interview // How Did We Come To This?: A Conversation with Heid E. Erdrich
Conducted by Jennifer Elise Foerster
Interview // All That’s Wrapped into a Name: A Conversation with Heather Cahoon
Conducted by Shriram Sivaramakrishnan