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
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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
Interview // “Late Blossoms and Émigré Poets”: A Conversation with Boris Dralyuk
“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
Dead Poets Love Us Back: On Polina Barskova’s Air Raid
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.
Interview // Irregular Life: A Conversation with Brandon Brown
We talked about Bernadette Mayer, experimental writing, and courting uncertainty.
“No country but our century”: Wong May, Poet of Lostness
“No matter how far you stray, your origin beckons you.”
Life List
A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.
Interview // “Emotional Realities that Expand in the White Space”: A Conversation with Natalee Cruz
“The constant translations and riffs were my attempts to understand my father.”
Native Poets Torchlight Series
In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.
I Had to Clear my Throat
“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
Interview // “Poems are Considerate Objects”: A Conversation with Claudia Castro Luna
“The moment we give up showing a different way of being with language and the imagination, we have lost.”