Everywhere Is [Beautifully] Dreamed in the Poetry of Sherwin Bitsui: A Critical Found Response
“Origin is first origin”—an essay by Natalie A. MartĂnez
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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
Interview // An Elegy of Resistance: A Conversation with Charles Valle
“It’s interesting to me how when we think of the dead and project their presence in our lives, the projections often point to events or milestones that the dead will not experience with us. Birthdays, holidays, first days of school, etc. There were so many events in 2020 that I’m glad Vivian never had to endure.”
Clear Air Turbulence: Reflections on a Mountain as Memorial Ground
Essay by Kevin Craft for Poetry Northwest’s Land/Form Series
Interview // Post Romantic: A Conversation With Kathleen Flenniken
“Marrying then and now, that’s a ploy to be sensible, to recognize in my childhood-self the simplification and wishful thinking, to overlay some hard truth, and to acknowledge that I’m chained to this country by love.”
One More Thing: Todd Kaneko and Mark Leidner in Conversation
“Your poems are a product of that conflict between the seeds you plant and what you actually cultivate.”
Interview // Giving a Name to the Ineffable: A Conversation with Regan Good
Conducted by Shriram Sivaramakrishnan
Repair
“It isn’t enough to hold someone’s sorrow in your body till it ferments into song. Witnessing isn’t enough. You must become the sorrow.”—an essay by Claudia F. Saleeby Savage
There’s the Overthrow and There’s the Rebuild
“Poems don’t replace the organizing—they supplement it.”—an essay by Troy Osaki
Interview // “Always a Condition of Urgency”: A Conversation with Cleopatra Mathis
“I always felt the poem before I had any idea about its meaning. A good poem is essentially unknowable.”
A Forecast of Snow: Love in bpNichol’s Blues
“It’s love, but slanted, in slow motion.”—an essay by Julia Anna Morrison