Alter-Energies: The Vitalities of Absence in Moby Dick
“Such a world is one of interpenetrating energies—a large, looming but luminous consciousness, in which we ourselves might be but a half-articulate idea.” –Dan Beachy-Quick
A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
“Such a world is one of interpenetrating energies—a large, looming but luminous consciousness, in which we ourselves might be but a half-articulate idea.” –Dan Beachy-Quick
“That’s one reason to write poems under fire: to register a human reaction to dehumanizing circumstances. And that’s one reason to translate: to preserve and convey those vital human responses.” –Boris Dralyuk
The voices to which Barskova has turned her obsessive, greedy, undeceived attention in Air Raid are not easy voices to listen to, but they are voices she is rescuing even as her poetry . . . is rescuing her, line by line.
We talked about Bernadette Mayer, experimental writing, and courting uncertainty.
“No matter how far you stray, your origin beckons you.”
A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.
“The constant translations and riffs were my attempts to understand my father.”
In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.
“Speaking these poems out loud, you will hear the sounds that Simmonds was able to put on the page, the way songs move with their own time, and how they push our bodies to inhabit that time.” — Mark Spero
“The moment we give up showing a different way of being with language and the imagination, we have lost.”