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Browse a complete table of contents from our 25th Anniversary Issue!

FEATURED: From our 25th Anniversary issue, readings by Ellen Bass and Kwame Dawes, and Chana Bloch on translation.

REVIEWS: Reginald Dwayne Betts’s Felon.

POETRY: New poems from—Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, K.T. Landon, Laura Voivodeship, and Brian Gyamfi

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Holly Welker, Saadi Youssef, and Katherine Towler on the theme of “small comforts.”

…and much more! 

 

from our 25th Anniversary Issue 

• Les Negres de Paris
  “…Every back, / it seems, is a blood neighbor” | Kwame Dawes
• The Lesser Gods
  “But what about all the modest / neglected deities–the overlooked” | by Ellen Bass
• The Assignment
  “the poem gripped me and would not let go until I’d turned it into English” | Chana Block on her first translation.

Poetry

• Listening to Michael Jackson in a Closet
  “my son/can recognize Michael’s voice/anywhere” | by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
• One Heaven
  “the nighttime grass/at eight years old,/run through with/starlight” | by K.T. Landon
• Lambing Season
  “I knew better than to protest/but my shoulders sloped/like the sides of the valley” | by Laura Voivodeship
• A Night in Madina
  “The stranger didn’t eat much/and she didn’t dance/and she didn’t remove her plastered shoes” | by Brian Gyamfi

Reviews

• A Kind of Blessing
  Swansdown by Donald Platt | reviewed by Robert Dunsdon
• Prison, a Terrible Father
  Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts | Reviewed by Jake Maguire
• Poetry as Global Process
  Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection by James Sherry | Reviewed by Abigail Ardelle Zammit
• Remembering the Forbidden
  A Field of Foundlings: Selected Poems by Iryna Starovoy | Reviewed by Marina Brown
• Life Endures Nourished by Itself
  Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver | Reviewed by Ken Walker

Dispatches

• Ukrainian Feature: Words for War
  “For many of the poets, the war is not some distant event one hears about in the papers. It is part of their personal history”| poems from Ukraine, edited by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky
• In Praise of Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021)
  “For years now, as my plane begins its descent toward the airport outside of Kraków, the city where I was born and raised but left years ago, I recite them quietly” | by Piotr Florczyk
• Yulya Tsimafeyeva’s Poetry of One-Legged Wonder
  “Between these poets of cultural affirmation and the poets of silence… comes a voice of a woman—and a woman in a patriarchal world is always somewhat of an immigrant” | by Valzhyna Mort

Interviews

• Of Things Never Told Before
  On myths and muses, radical artifice, genre switching, and the love of children’s poetry | Joseph Thomas talks to Neil Philip
• Other People’s Voices
  How sound can bridge the past and present and what books of poetry have in common with websites | Zach Bernstein and Paisley Rekdal talk about her digital project West: A Translation
• Poetry Unbound
  On the other 99% of poetry, how it actually exists in the world | Jessica Pressman talks to poet and scholar Mike Chasar
• Celebrating the Natural World
  The human, the nonhuman, a love of revising, and the sorrow necessary in celebrating the natural world | Tami Haaland talks to Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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