Essays
Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.

Close Entanglements

A Poetics of Tectonic Scale

“I Made Myself Laugh and so I Forgot about the Point I Was Making”—on O’Hara, Bishop, and the Poetics of Delight

Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”

Jill Twist: The Only Thing, a Photo Essay

Daemond Arrindell: Moonlight, Gratitude, and Reading Ross Gay in this Political Moment

Zach Savich from Diving Makes the Water Deep

Richard Kenney: “Be Still My Heart: A Closer Look at Biology in Relation to Metrical Forms”

Gill Dennis: “Unchained”

Sandra Beasley: “Flint and Tinder – Understanding the Difference Between ‘Poetry of Witness’ and ‘Documentary Poetics'”

Emily Warn: “The Almost Wilderness – Remembering Denise Levertov”
