The Pursuit of It: Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
Greg Bem on Chath pierSath’s On Earth Beneath Sky
“I’m reminded that sometimes the poem comes after I’ve written what I think I need to say, when the will gives up, when the imagination takes over, allowing me to see a bit beyond my very limited perspective.”—Blas Falconer
On translating Green Mountain by Chinese Poet Yang Jian
“I am the assemblage of both my memory and the ones that contest it.”
“The poems are ‘anti’ the way antique pieces are, which is to say, if these poems undermine meaning-making, it is because they have lost their significances.”
A review of Be Holding by Ross Gay
“Vuong shows the world for the truth of all its sharp and beautiful teeth.” —a visual essay Tessa Hulls
“Perhaps conversations among RĂos’ works are most evident in the ones about the border, where the elbow taps of solidarity acknowledge the tenuous ground upon which an idea that becomes a fence that becomes a wall is built.”—an essay by Donna Miscolta
“I’m interested in literature that depicts a person or community’s lived experiences as a wholly social conundrum.”