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

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

REVIEWS: Robert Dunsdon reviews Donald Platt’s Swansdown.

POETRY: New poems from some of our 2022 PI Prize Finalists—Emily Portillo, Daniel Zeiders, and Emily Leithauser

…and much more! 

 

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

• A Kind of Blessing
  Swansdown by Donald Platt | reviewed by Robert Dunsdon
• 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

Poetry

• Light
  “I have apprenticed myself to light,/to the way it moves through the world” | by Emily Portillo
• Duck Pond
  “The pond rises and sways, wind-rippled/a gelatinous mirror ball waiting to fall” | by Daniel Zeiders
• Sunporch
  “Our house was a seabed of alien vines/reaching to touch the windowsills.” | by Emily Leithauser
• The Daughter
  “Yet, to love her this way is to love the blue of distances” | by Jody Rambo

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