Where the Sunflowers Have Pointed
“Each of these books carries with it this breath of endurance — that life is spectacularly painful, and each day our choices work toward some method of minimizing this pain.” – Cody Stetzel
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A selection of recent special features, essays, interviews and reviews
One More Thing: Amorak Huey and Joshua Nguyen in Conversation
“They’re talking about real stuff, and sometimes it’s funny and sometimes you’re not sure you should be laughing, and poetry also so often lives in that same kind of in-between, uncomfortable space.”
Embodied Placements
“Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity.”
Would it help you. Would you open: On Joanna Klink’s The Nightfields
“At the center of Klink’s lyric resides the tension between profound emotional intensity and profound emotional delicacy.”
The Scribbles, the Rubbish, and the Mirrored Words
“Don Mee Choi’s words point us toward a world beyond the American imagination.” —Woogee Bae
Lips that Kissed Lips
The Elasticity of the Sonnet in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets
Interview // “The Quiet Dark”: A Conversation Between Jennifer S. Cheng & Tanya Holtland
“The dark, for me, is always a place of brimming; even when it is anguishing and unbearable. . .”
Persimmons
“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
Unmastering English: On the Work of Cathy Park Hong
“Hong’s essays and poems ask how to write about a country’s murderous onset, when the bloody order continues?”—Paul Hlava Ceballos
Interview // “Mechanics of the Haunt”: A Conversation with Clara Burghelea
“At times, forgetting is essential. In the poem, that refers to the way one person, a mother, a woman, part of a traditional family where roles and expectations are clearly cut, needs to forget about that part of hers in order to breathe, to tend to the little things that make her happy—like doing her nails—to keep it going. We are a multitude of things, after all.”