TILSA OTTA
Three Poems
(translation by Farid Matuk)
Building paradise from our urges
Out of our fetishes our loves our vices
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TILSA OTTA
All of Us Come with a Ballad
Han VanderHart reviews Diane Seuss
Embodied Placements
“Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity.”
Lips that Kissed Lips
The Elasticity of the Sonnet in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets
Against Invisibility and Erasure: Light, Love, and Touch
A Review of Natalie Diaz
To Be in the Truth of Us
Just Us attends to the ways the structural violence of whiteness shapes identity and interactions. —an essay by Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine
Something Silent in Us Strengthens
“In the time we have remaining, Kaminsky asks that we commit to exaltation as an honest response to our beleaguered world.”
Kristen Millares Young on Ilya Kaminsky
My Dear collateral damage
“That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation . . . to whom you are beloved.”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on Solmaz Sharif
Interview // Lines of Energy: A Conversation with Jeffrey Yang
by Jaimie Li | Contributing Writer
Not an Elegy
“Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet.”
Image: “Dreams In Black and White”, 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith