Conversations: Heidi Seaborn and Martin Ott

“My goal is to reach people who never read poetry, to start a conversation where they see a place for poetry in their lives.”

Torn in the sky: on Ilya Kaminsky and Shane McCrae

In Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky connects our current era to a place and time that feels Soviet, although familiar. The book is a narrative with dramatis personae—townspeople, an unborn child,…

Gillian Cummings

Chameleon Poet: The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, by Gillian Cummings

In selecting her manuscript for the 2018 Colorado Prize forPoetry, John Yau praises Gillian Cummings using a phrase from Keats, calling her a “cameleon Poet.” Cummings has written two prize-winning…

Conversations: Femi Osofisan and ‘Jide Ajidahun

Femi Osofisan is a Marxist Nigerian playwright, scholar, critic, journalist, producer, director, and essayist.

Becoming Visible: On Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone

Very little in Jenny Erpenbeck’s previous fiction—allegorical, timeless—prepares a reader for the immediacy and moral heft of Go, Went, Gone. It asks the same question Michael Ignatieff did in his…

Conversations: Sybil Baker and Laura Catherine Brown

Sybil Baker is the author of four works of fiction, most recently While You Were Gone. Her work of nonfiction, Immigration Essays is the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s required…

What do I know of drowning? On Matt W. Miller’s The Wounded for the Water

Matt W. Miller’s latest collection, The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry, 2018) opens with a preface poem that reads like a lonely sea shanty, a solitary voice singing: “Now…

A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments

Civilisation is back. But it is no longer the preserve of “Renaissance man” or of “the West,” or even of literate societies. Civilisation is a way of talking about human…

Can You Call Her Sister? Amelia Rosselli on Sylvia Plath

When the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli took her life 33 years to the day that Sylvia Plath did the same, it was not her only tribute to the American writer,…

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