Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
“In English, speakers are actors and objects are acted upon. A persimmon is there to be eaten. For Powhatan speakers, it just as likely might not be there since the persimmon, like other objects of the natural world, has an agency and animacy of its own.”—an essay by Emily Parzybok
“Hong’s essays and poems ask how to write about a country’s murderous onset, when the bloody order continues?”—Paul Hlava Ceballos
“A poem’s sweetness leads to its own devouring.”—an essay by Jehanne Dubrow
“This is a collection about preservation.”—an essay by Luther Hughes
“What would the objects around us look like if we were centered, open?”—an essay by John Wall Barger
“Origin is first origin”—an essay by Natalie A. MartĂnez
“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
“Poems don’t replace the organizing—they supplement it.”—an essay by Troy Osaki
“It’s love, but slanted, in slow motion.”—an essay by Julia Anna Morrison
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
