Somebody Loves Us All: Finding Beauty in a Filling Station
My father’s car wash, Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Filling Station,” and the somebodies who care for us all.
Conversations: Olga Livshin, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Ali Kinsella
Ukrainian culture has flown through my life like a creek among several waterways.
Charting Relics of Lust: On Sophia Dahlin’s Natch
What if a callous shepherdess composed a queer love song for her crush, crooning “I invited you home to worry my mother, tra la”?
Aging and Accomplishment in Sonnetville, New Jersey
Craig Morgan Teicher establishes himself as one of our finest poets on marriage and fatherhood.
White Spaces of Myth: Three Approaches to the Unsayable
Three poets use shared cultural archetypes to explore the interior spaces of poverty, addiction, hunger, violence, absence, and survival.
An Attention to What Continues: Two Books on Herbaria
A meditation on the collection, mounting, and exchange of botanical specimens.
Conversations: Shin Yu Pai and Jaimie Li
Sometime grieving is positive; sometimes the letting go is necessary.
Of Sense, Scents, and the Sensorium: Atomizer by Elizabeth A. I. Powell
Atomizer delves into the world of olfaction to investigate ways in which our instincts can lead us into danger.
Erasure, Culture, and the Working Class: On Cynthia Cruz’s Melancholia of Class
Cruz calls for working-class artists and individuals to claim their place in the class struggle.