“No country but our century”: Wong May, Poet of Lostness
“No matter how far you stray, your origin beckons you.”
A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
“No matter how far you stray, your origin beckons you.”
“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.”
“Olzmann writes with a penchant for allegory and ethical dilemmas, but these poems avoid parable or pat answers.” —Risa Denenberg
“The loneliness that drenches Burying the Mountain derives from rejection and alienation, but also from portent.” —Angelo Mao
“What are ways of looking deeply, at a photograph or other archival filament, that allow us in the present to re-enter the past?”
“The important thing is that the work conveys felt truth.”
I wanted this, something to make my words feel real. Something that told me I could make a life out of writing poems.
–KB Brookins