A Book in a Tree Is a Love Poem and Also Not a Love Poem
“A watershed of shared thinking.”—Youth Responses to Natalie Diaz curated by Laura Da’
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A Triptych on Toi Derricotte
“The poem will tell us the depths to which we will need to go.”—an essay by Bettina Judd
Still Loving the World
The “We” Behind the “I” in “Good Bones”—an essay by Kathleen Flenniken
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
Faith in the Particular
“Barot widens the circumference of lived experience in all its bittersweet rings.” —an essay by Jane Wong on the poems of Rick Barot
Time Flown
“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
Now I Feel I Am On My Way
Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle’s Dunce
More of a River
“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
Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye
Afterwords // “Make it as intimate as possible”—Solmaz Sharif at Seattle Arts & Lectures
In conversation with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha