Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South
Essays and poems by Shamala Gallagher, Kimberly Alidio, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Sarah Gambito, Tiana Nobile, and Ching-In Chen
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Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.
Close Entanglements
Bill Carty on the poetry of A.E. Stallings
A Poetics of Tectonic Scale
Katy Didden on the “Great Distance” Poems of Marianne Moore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Layli Long Soldier
“I Made Myself Laugh and so I Forgot about the Point I Was Making”—on O’Hara, Bishop, and the Poetics of Delight
by Ellene Glenn Moore | Contributing Writer
Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”
“I believe poetry is language’s most radical possibilities, possibilities which include prose and what prose is capable of expressing, but with the freeing capability of moving beyond limiting grammatical structures and linguistic norms as needed.”
Jill Twist: The Only Thing, a Photo Essay
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
Daemond Arrindell: Moonlight, Gratitude, and Reading Ross Gay in this Political Moment
“The shine of the river. Geese. Visitors putting their feet up. The wheezing chest.”
Zach Savich from Diving Makes the Water Deep
Though my appetite is small, I will prepare a feast.
Richard Kenney: “Be Still My Heart: A Closer Look at Biology in Relation to Metrical Forms”
I don’t think we have iambic meters because we have a duple cardiac rhythm; neither do I think for a moment that they have nothing to do with each other.
Gill Dennis: “Unchained”
In which a screenwriter listens to Johnny Cash and considers the origins of a sound and in so doing sheds light on the subject of poetry.