Interview // “Abject Uncertainty”: A Conversation Between Jeff Alessandrelli & Ashley Yang Thompson
“The important thing is that the work conveys felt truth.”
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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
We Are Not Untouchable
I wanted this, something to make my words feel real. Something that told me I could make a life out of writing poems.
–KB Brookins
A Myth Against Empire
“H of H Playbook is a submission to our collective conscience, a treatise against empire, and a reminder that there is no myth nor story that can replace actual, material human experience.” – Dujie Tahat
Where the Sunflowers Have Pointed
“Each of these books carries with it this breath of endurance — that life is spectacularly painful, and each day our choices work toward some method of minimizing this pain.” – Cody Stetzel
One More Thing: Amorak Huey and Joshua Nguyen in Conversation
“They’re talking about real stuff, and sometimes it’s funny and sometimes you’re not sure you should be laughing, and poetry also so often lives in that same kind of in-between, uncomfortable space.”
Embodied Placements
“Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity.”
Would it help you. Would you open: On Joanna Klink’s The Nightfields
“At the center of Klink’s lyric resides the tension between profound emotional intensity and profound emotional delicacy.”
The Scribbles, the Rubbish, and the Mirrored Words
“Don Mee Choi’s words point us toward a world beyond the American imagination.” —Woogee Bae
Lips that Kissed Lips
The Elasticity of the Sonnet in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets
Interview // “The Quiet Dark”: A Conversation Between Jennifer S. Cheng & Tanya Holtland
“The dark, for me, is always a place of brimming; even when it is anguishing and unbearable. . .”