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Announcing the publication of our 25th Anniversary Issue!  Browse a complete table of contents here.  Available for purchase in print and pdf here.

FEATURED: Broadsides featuring poems from Pablo Neruda, Kay Ryan, Hashim Shafiq, and others from our new issue. 

REVIEWS: Marina Brown reviews Iryna Starovoyt’s A Field of Foundlings, translated by Grace Mahoney.

POETRY: New poems from Sarah Maclay and Jacqueline Osherow.

… and don’t forget to submit to the 2022 C.P. Cavafy Prize—now open!

 

from our 25th Anniversary Issue 

• Floods
  “The poor live on low ground waiting for the river/ to rise one night and sweep them out to sea.” | by Pablo Neruda
• The Mountain
  ” I have washed the pebbles/ and the wind that clings to the trees” | by Hashim Shafiq
• Fatal Flaw
  “Most/ people never bend/ in the fatal instant,” | by Kay Ryan

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

Reviews

• Remembering the Forbidden
  A Field of Foundlings: Selected Poems | Reviewed by Marina Brown
• Life Endures Nourished by Itself
  Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver | Reviewed by Ken Walker
• A Poet of Love, A Poet of Praise
  A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke edited by William Barillas | Reviewed by Alexander Long
• Broken Hearts and A Broken Earth
  The Book of Fools by Sam Taylor | Reviewed by Catherine Imbriglio

Poetry

• The Hidden Springs
  “I have a feeling for a moment that the elk is God—/ a god that we can watch.” | by Sarah Maclay
• Art Deco Sonnet
  “O sleekness, O pizzazz, O mirrors, O chrome,/O remnant inklings of a light-struck world” | by Jacqueline Osherow
• Ghazal Season
  “Once, I wrote a ghazal trimmed in gold,/ to mirror the implausible” | by Jacqueline Osherow
• Cochlea
  “The murkiness, the smog, the thickened haze/ in me are hard to love.” | by Jehanne Dubrow, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• The Usual Suspects or a Chronological List of the Ways Men Have Referred to my Breasts:
  “They’re my favorite part of you, Mama,/ my son says, pressing into them hard” | by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• Exit
  “On every door in this village/ there are last notes left by families/ crossing the sea to another land.” | by Rasaq Malik, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• The Starlight in Syria
  “The wounded know stars are a furnace/ for mankind’s sins. The wounded curl themselves/ into a ball of starlight” | by Seif-Eldeine, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• I sat next to Adele on a plane and she bought me a house
  “I’d gotten a fluky upgrade, moved from 38C to 4B./ She— a stranger still, was already sitting, a silver/ studded handbag at her feet,” | by Patrick Holloway, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist

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