Stones of Witness: On Carolyn Forché’s In the Lateness of the World

Poetry has the power to create a sense of clarity that is difficult, if not impossible, to replicate in rhetoric.

For Rachel Carson, Wonder Was a Radical State of Mind

For Carson, bearing witness to nature, and responding with joy, excitement and delight, fostered a sense of humility.

A Graceful Way of Breathing: Remembering Anselm Hollo

Kindness, gentleness, delicacy, and a certain modest perspicacity defined Anselm’s approach to others—and to the world at large.

Speak, Disaster: A Climate Change Anthology from India

This ecopoetic anthology searches for a language that could make real, tangible change possible.

Marguerite Yourcenar’s Revenants

Yourcenar’s superb three-volume set of memoirs, is a twentieth-century masterpiece.

Love is a Narrative That Gets Written in Tandem

Imagine two couples, each at home for dinner. The first couple spends the whole meal caressing each other’s hair, calling each other cheesy monikers and, after the meal is finished,…

A River That Flows Toward the Future: The New-Generation African Poets

The New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Akashic Books, 2018) is a work of art as well as a labor of love. Editors Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani midwifed…

Conversations: Nandini Bhattacharya and Clifford Garstang

Nandini Bhattacharya is an academic and author of the novel Love’s Garden (Aubade Publishing, 2020), a work of historical fiction that tells the stories of Indian women caught up in…

A Mind of Winter: Notes on Exile

To be estranged from our countries is to be estranged from some version of our selves.

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