The Pursuit of It: Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
Part of that Secret
Greg Bem on Chath pierSath’s On Earth Beneath Sky
Beyond the Bradys: Poetry and the “Perfect” American Family
“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
Interview// Invisibility is a Form of Presence: A Conversation with Fiona Sze-Lorrain:
On translating Green Mountain by Chinese Poet Yang Jian
One More Thing: Muriel Leung and Helene Achanzar in Conversation
“I am the assemblage of both my memory and the ones that contest it.”
SHRIRAM SIVARAMAKRISHNAN: Five Anti-Poems
“The poems are ‘anti’ the way antique pieces are, which is to say, if these poems undermine meaning-making, it is because they have lost their significances.”
Life List
A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.
The Reaching That Makes of Falling Flight
A review of Be Holding by Ross Gay
I Am Ready To Be Every Animal You Leave Behind
“Vuong shows the world for the truth of all its sharp and beautiful teeth.” —a visual essay Tessa Hulls
A THOUSAND IMAGINATIONS: What the Books of Alberto Ríos Say to Each Other
“Perhaps conversations among Ríos’ works are most evident in the ones about the border, where the elbow taps of solidarity acknowledge the tenuous ground upon which an idea that becomes a fence that becomes a wall is built.”—an essay by Donna Miscolta