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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews

Polyamory & The Poem: A Zuihitsu

Published by Kaitlyn Airy

In striving towards anarchy, I had to first follow the rules. I had to find my ancestors. Having found no manifesto, no guidebook, I knelt before poets.

Interview // “A Line of Descent”—A Conversation with Elissa Favero

Published by Staff

I’m back again to the notion that we might all act as carriers of strangers, worshiping the others around us and working to cultivate new senses of self, connectedness, joy, and responsibility.

Interview // “Making Room for Mystery”: A Conversation with Jessica Jacobs

Published by Alexa Luborsky

“Translation is such a beautiful act of service. I’m not very good at learning new languages, but I feel like as a poet and a researcher, at least I can become a conduit of the text and hopefully offer what I find between the lines and within the etymology in a way that can be meaningful to people, even if they haven’t sat and done these years of study.”—Jessica Jacobs

Thinking Like a Mountain: On the Centennial of Marianne Moore’s “An Octopus”

Published by Staff

An essay by Dave Seter

2024 James Welch Prize

Published by Gabi Graceffo

We are delighted to feature our 2024 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio. This PDF matches the layout and formatting as our print edition. 2024 JAMES WELCH PRIZE WINNERS KATERI MENOMINEE from a salt(less) sea to you: return KARA BRIGGS Acknowledgment Two FINALISTS MAX EARLY The Stone Shaped by Song MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN Ama/Agua KINSALE DRAKE First Date MICHAEL WASSON Murals Depicting a Lynching in a Courthouse to House the Idaho Legislature CASANDRA LÓPEZ I Try to Write About the Sea but Instead Write Another Dead Brother Poem CHRIS HOSHNIC Something is rotten in the state of Trust MALIA MAXWELL Pō IBE LIEBENBERG quiet wolf

Kinship Archives: DNA Dreams

Published by Kaitlyn Airy

Gabriela Halas reckons with the language we use to describe both blood and chosen families as she carries a new child into the world in this stunning lyric essay.