A Kind of Blessing
Swansdown by Donald Platt | reviewed by Robert Dunsdon
Poetry as Global Process
Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection by James Sherry | Reviewed by Abigail Ardelle Zammit
Remembering the Forbidden
A Field of Foundlings: Selected Poems by Iryna Starovoy | Reviewed by Marina Brown
Katie Ford On “Tell Us”
“For what in life can we prepare, for what can we ready ourselves, and against what weathers…” | by Katie Ford, Poetry International 27/28
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, Poetry International 27/28
Plantains
“Everything ends, except this love:/Our bunches hanging in the rainy breeze” | by Juan Carlos Goleano
Life Endures Nourished by Itself
Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver | Reviewed by Ken Walker
Floods
“The poor live on low ground waiting for the river/ to rise one night and sweep them out to sea.” | by Pablo Neruda
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
The Grandchildren of Sinbad
“We gathered our tears/ And the letters of the drowned” | by Abdul-Razzaq al-Rubai
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
Sexual Monotony
“those puckered flowers—/the first signal the nervous system/is turning to quicksand. | by Amy Gerstler
Cartoon Trick
“Today has been hell, he says, which means today has been/heaven.” | by Dag T. Straumvåg
Poetry Unbound
On the other 99% of poetry, how it actually exists in the world | Jessica Pressman talks to poet and scholar
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