Interview // “Poetry as a Tool for Discovery”: A Conversation with Sarah Ghazal AliÂ
“I can’t let go of the poem until it lets go of me, I suppose.” —Sarah Ghazal Ali
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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
Dreaming the Living and the Dead: On Brandon Shimoda’s Hydra Medusa
“Dreams, like letters or memories or photographs, can resurrect the dead, and the dead arrive throughout this book.”
Friends, or All That Is Knowable
“As these odes accrue, they flesh out a life lived in company, which is quite the opposite of the solitary character of the Mary Ruefle I’ve long held in my mind.” —Tyler Barton
Interview // “Generosity in Vulnerability”: A Conversation with Danika Stegeman
“Collage has always made sense to me as an approach to composition. Peering into another person, into language, into a material. Seeing what’s before me, holding it, considering its potential force and its textures. I take it in and then I pour it back out as something I’m also woven into.”—Danika Stegeman
I Unthread and He Arranges Me
Looking, we are reminded again and again, is, too, about being looked at, about where, in the act of looking, agency and power begin and how that changes depending on who is doing the looking.
Strange and Funny Doors of Deep Feeling: Michael Earl Craig’s Iggy Horse
Horses, capable of deep knowing, stride alongside animate eyeglasses, mysterious flecks of trash, and coy, almost-ever-present lawnmowers.
Laci Mosier: There’s a Fungus Among Us
“There’s always that impulse to go back and rearrange the decay into something more beautiful than it was . . .” —Laci Mosier
Review & Interview // “Where Insects Bite”: A Conversation with Carolina Hotchandani and Review of The Book Eaters
“It occurred to me that, as a nursing mother, I was like a book being eaten by insects—a book offering a type of nourishment to living beings that its author had not intended to deliver.”—Carolina Hotchandani
Interview // “From Farm to Poem”: A Conversation with Jessica Poli
“When I’m out in the field, weeding or planting or harvesting, sometimes I’m thinking about poems or working on one in my head. But more often I’m simply practicing my capacity to pay attention, which is where poetry, at its root, begins.” —Jessica Poli
Commentary on the Birds
An excerpt from Jed Munson’s new collection of essays.