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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: Katie Farris’s Standing in the Forest of Being Alive and more!
POETRY: New poems from Katharyn Howd Machan and Rob Carney.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Nguyễn Quyén, Aleksandr Kabanov, Ý Nhi, Jenny Grassl, Sarah Maclay, & Nikola Madzirov
…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
- Without Her“her fine long tail waving a thin farewell/as both flew away from my life.” | by Katharyn Howd Machan
- Back When Water Was an Elephant“since we couldn’t just walk across a lake,/the bed of it cracked now, bed of it dust,//dance partner of the wind” | by Rob Carney
Reviews
- “You Are In No Position to Criticize Anyone”From From by Monica Youn | reviewed by Mariam Ahmed
- What Hope Looks Like When It’s Cut for SurvivalStanding in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris | reviewed by Arthur Kayzakian
- To Be A GoddessWoman Without Shame by Sandra Cisneros | reviewed by Alejandra Hernandez
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 BeforeOn myths and muses, radical artifice, genre switching, and the love of children’s poetry | Joseph Thomas talks to Neil Philip
- Other People’s VoicesHow 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 UnboundOn the other 99% of poetry, how it actually exists in the world | Jessica Pressman talks to poet and scholar Mike Chasar
- Celebrating the Natural WorldThe human, the nonhuman, a love of revising, and the sorrow necessary in celebrating the natural world | Tami Haaland talks to Aimee Nezhukumatathil
From the Archives
- Early Morning Rain“The dragonfly tilted its wings, curved its tail, / Your fingers as thin as a pier’s posts.” | by Nguyễn Quyén
- My Story“if flowers fruit / there will be seeds of pure tears.” | by Ý Nhi
- Five Poems by Aleksandr KabanovTake off, burrow deep, drift / And listen to the guttural river / Reciting a poem about you | by Aleksandr Kabanov
- Nasturtiums“pull stems away from the ground by root / and wastrel hair yanked scaffolding of a summer” | by Jenny Grassl
- Yard Workuntil the stalks of the naked ladies fall to the ground, / twisting on their roots; / until our broken fists lie blooming. | by Sarah Maclay
- We Have No Sleep “From our memory / flows water enough to sustain several / fields of wheat.” | by Nikola Madzirov