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FEATURED:  Issue 27/28 — Now Available! 

REVIEWS: Ken Walker reviews Cold Fire

POETRY: New poems from two of our Cavafy Prize finalists, Michael Martin and Phil SaintDenisSanchez

…and don’t forget to check out our Summer Tiny Chapbook       Competition!

Featured

• Died of Old Age
  “Olha was pregnant/ Serhiy was drunk/ and Sonya was only three/ they all perished, too/ and people said, they died of old age” | by Lyuba Yakimchuk
• Eastern-European Poets on Poetry & War
  In this forum from our archives poets from Ukraine, Poland, and other east European countries consider poetry’s power in the face of war and how the 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea affected their lives and work
• A Stranger Lives My Life And Wears My Body
  “a speck of hell, the Universe’s scream— laconic and intense, devoid of exits…| by Vasyl Stus

Dispatches

• Dunya Mikhail on “The War Works Hard”
  “In mind was the war I lived since my teenage time in Baghdad. However, it’s not about a specific war but about war itself. Every time, the war came with a different name…” | by Dunya Mikhail
• 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

• 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

• monarchs are the communication medium for when i die
  “a tiny sun in my belly quieted by sweet tea & new tales” | by Phil SaintDenisSanchez, 2020 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• Any Minor Art World
  “He’s far too young to be alone in this life/ and even a tiny frayed lawn chair can feel/ as heavy as a stranger.” | by Michael Martin, 2020 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• Mother Tongue
  “Walking to the shuq to buy tapoocheem, chalav, and lechem from a merchant who didn’t care—” | by Mari Pack, 2020 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• An Amateur’s Guide to Summer
  “crash kiss, pesto and blue corn chips kiss/ that was the summer you tracked them all” | by Lance Larsen, 2020 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• Aubade Desiring to Be an Ars Poetica, With a Release Date Inside It
  “I don’t/ know what I think this poem can do/ for my soundless brother.” | by Michael Torres
• Nasturtiums
  “feel the pod-throb/like your own pulse  and the vine bluing in your wrist” | by Jenni Grassl

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