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.”
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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
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
Interview // Possible Tethers: A Conversation with Caryl Pagel
“I’m interested in literature that depicts a person or community’s lived experiences as a wholly social conundrum.”
One More Thing: Angie Sijun Lou and Troy Osaki in Conversation
“There are both so many words and not enough for this moment.”
Getting Out of the Way: The Quiet Poem
“By simplifying language, diction, detail, a poem can transcend the ‘lean moment’ and brush up against an intimate and unshakable truth.”—an essay by D.S. Waldman
Interview // A Fractured Catalog of Different Possible Endings: A Conversation with Patrick Blagrave
conducted by Alex Gallo-Brown
A Book in a Tree Is a Love Poem and Also Not a Love Poem
“A watershed of shared thinking.”—Youth Responses to Natalie Diaz curated by Laura Da’