Something Silent in Us Strengthens
“In the time we have remaining, Kaminsky asks that we commit to exaltation as an honest response to our beleaguered world.”
Kristen Millares Young on the poetry of Ilya Kaminsky
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My Dear collateral damage
“That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation to—or as through the eyes of—the ones to whom you are beloved.”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poetry of Solmaz Sharif
Not an Elegy
“Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet.”
Image: “Dreams In Black and White”, 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith
Nothing Keeps Me Company! An Interview with Alice Notley
by Sierra Nelson | Contributing Writer
KARY WAYSON I’d Vowed
a real bird perched on a branch of a glass tree
How to Listen to Water
Michelle Peñaloza on Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic
That Ocean Inside Us
Claudia Castro Luna on Violence and Silence in the Poems of Gregory Orr
Close Entanglements
Bill Carty on the poetry of A.E. Stallings
Like Sand, and Solid Ground
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on Steph Burt’s Advice from the Lights
Afterword // The Being Beyond Terror: Alice Notley for Seattle Arts & Lectures
by Jay Aquinas Thompson | Associate Editor