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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: Sam Yaziji on Arthur Kayzakian’s the book of redacted paintings, Nasim Luczaj on Sarah Maclay’s Nightfall Marginalia, and Catherine Imbriglio on Jennifer Franklin’s If Some God Shakes Your House.

And our 2024 National Poetry Month Selections. 

POETRY: Saleh Razzouk and Philip Terman co-translate poems by Nasser Sabah and This Black Woman Will Not Die Exhausted by Adrienne Christian

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: on the theme of Cross Currents!

…and much more! 

 

Dispatches

• Encuentro de Poetas Iberoamericanos
  A Transcontinental Affaire: poets from Spanish-speaking backgrounds come together | by Milagros Vilaplana
• Exploring Poems as Letters
  A poet shares thoughts on the epistolary, with a prompt to try! | by Melissa Studdard
• Visual Poetry Rethinks the Page
  On bringing the magic of image to the page, a poet contemplates | by Anna Leahy

Interviews

• Girl Sage
  On feminism, political poetry, intertextuality, and pop culture | Marina Kraiskaya talks with poet Marilyn Chin
• “Here’s my Sukun”
  On stillness as punctuation, the pause before moving forward, a parent’s death, aftershocks, and what’s next | Blas Falconer talks to Kazim Ali
• The Poetics of Climate Dystopia
  On motherhood, climate anxiety, and the (dis)comfort of writing in form | Anna Gasaway talks to Claire Wahmanholm

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.

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