“Perhaps conversations among RÃos’ 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
“A watershed of shared thinking.”—Youth Responses to Natalie Diaz curated by Laura Da’
“The poem will tell us the depths to which we will need to go.”—an essay by Bettina Judd
The “We” Behind the “I” in “Good Bones”—an essay by Kathleen Flenniken
“Barot widens the circumference of lived experience in all its bittersweet rings.” —an essay by Jane Wong on the poems of Rick Barot
“Rekdal’s poems show characters amidst great transformations, and more importantly, allow the reader to change alongside them.”
Bill Carty on Paisley Rekdal’s Nightingale
Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle’s Dunce
“How can poetry, with only words at its disposal, work on us the way the world works on us?”
Jason Whitmarsh on the poetry of Richard Kenney
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye
“Concrete gestures toward beauty, fragile investments in progress. Literal seeds sown.”
Alex Madison on Here: Poems for the Planet
