Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
“By stitching the mundane to the profound, Abani renders a reclamation of a tender masculinity, an understanding of the relationship between joy and trauma, and a pursuit of the sacred.” –Indira Dahlstrom
“The premise is that everything is a lie.” –Afton Montgomery
“The trouble with wanting . . . is that the relationship between the public and private self’s desires is an ever-evolving matter.” –Margot Kahn
“Under Reginald Dwayne Betts’s watch, redaction becomes a beacon . . . a lightness under the weight shines through.” –Stacy D. Flood
“To whom do we belong? Those whom we can see in photographs? Those we encounter in story? Or those we know in our blood?” –an essay by CMarie Fuhrman
“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
“No matter how far you stray, your origin beckons you.”
“When I can bring identification from field guide to feeling guide and into another’s conscious as a fellow living being worthy of adoration, the work for that sentence or stanza or story is, for the moment, done.”
“H of H Playbook is a submission to our collective conscience, a treatise against empire, and a reminder that there is no myth nor story that can replace actual, material human experience.” – Dujie Tahat
“Don Mee Choi’s words point us toward a world beyond the American imagination.” —Woogee Bae
