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POETRY: Dunya Mikhail, Paul Celan, Malachi Black, and others from our archives

BOOKS: A New Generation of African Poets, The Child Who, Threed reviewed

INTERVIEW: Carolyn Forché, Kaveh Akbar, Kwame Dawes, Alfonso García Cortéz, and others talk with Ilya Kaminsky about being on the border

and much more…

Featured

• Veins (extracts) // Nervures (extraits)
  “a little like how a sentry in the night / paces to keep himself awake” | Selections from poet-artist Hamid Tibouchi’s Nervures in English and French.

Dispatches

• Poetry and Plastics
  “But how can poetry tackle such an urgent and growing global problem?” | Claire Cox reports on her time with The Clean Seas Odyssey
• The Perpetual Ideal
  Memories of a master class with Derek Walcott. “I wonder, though, if we ever astonished Derek, even just a little.” | by Patrick James Errington
• An Image Writes the Poem
  “I see the photo of a hole in the bombed ceiling of the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi” | Poet Alan Semerdjian on “The Hole in the Church of My Heart”

Interviews

• A Head Full of Music
  On songs, the state, sandhill cranes, and editing in her head | Allison Hedge Coke talks to Tami Haaland
• Syntax Grammar and Power
  “I wanted to create a very different relationship with grammar.” | Dora Malech and Kristina Marie Darling talk about Malech’s new book.
• Poets on the Border: A Forum
  Carolyn Forché, Kaveh Akbar, Kwame Dawes, Alfonso García Cortéz, Monica Ávila, Joan Kane, and Piotr Florczyk and others poets in conversation with Ilya Kaminsky

Reviews

• The Simple Vocabulary of Grief
  The Child Who by Jeanne Benameur, translated by Bill Johnston | Reviewed by Jaclyn Youhana Garver
• Removal Era
  Threed, This Road Not Damascus by Tamara J. Madison | Reviewed by Arthur Kayzakian
• Identity Is Not Destination
  New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba), edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani | Reviewed by Brent Ameneyro
• ‘Forgive us, history’
  Index of Haunted Houses by Adam O. Davis | Alonso Llerena looks inside this debut collection
• Pandemic Poetry
  Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic, edited by Kristina Marie Darling & Jeffrey Levine | Reviewed by Alexa T. Dodd
• After the Wreckage of Words
  Pulling the Invisible but Heavy Cart: Last Poems by Peter Everwine | Reviewed by Alexander Long

Poetry

• No Artist Paints Only One Portrait
  “What I mean is every shower / on this street has someone / singing or crying in it.” | by Brad Aaron Modlin
• The Futures
  “or three days from now you’ll get up // and cough and spit and push / the lever that sets birds loose from sleep” | by Chad Sweeney
• Villanelles: ‘Putting a Question to Spring’
  “We only have copies, but they, too, stun / with the ever-out-of-reach, the waylaid poem” | by Jacqueline Osherow

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