One More Thing: Angie Sijun Lou and Troy Osaki in Conversation
“There are both so many words and not enough for this moment.”
A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
“There are both so many words and not enough for this moment.”
“By simplifying language, diction, detail, a poem can transcend the ‘lean moment’ and brush up against an intimate and unshakable truth.”—an essay by D.S. Waldman
conducted by Alex Gallo-Brown
“A watershed of shared thinking.”—Youth Responses to Natalie Diaz curated by Laura Da’
“There’s a certain way that the poems seek a new narration, I think, one that hadn’t been there. And yet, maybe still isn’t there, but it is its own thing.”
“I began to feel an urgency, not only in the theoretical power of poetry but in our collective power as poets.”
“The Zone of Stalker becomes shorthand for us to talk about the forbidden spots of a poem.” -John Wall Barger
“I don’t want to write about me. I want to write about the underpinnings of me, which might also be the underpinnings of you.”—Lauren Shapiro
by Greg Bem
“What does it mean to let the eye linger? Where will it go? What will I see?”