On Verse
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.
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.
On Kunwar Narain, “the Buddha of contemporary poetry”
Regardless of the genre of writing, the discourses and theories about translation hardly offer any help to the readers. The fundamental purpose of translating a work is to secure a…
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.
Speak, Disaster: A Climate Change Anthology from India
This ecopoetic anthology searches for a language that could make real, tangible change possible.
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…
Thaw & Desire: Heather Treseler’s Parturition
In these poems, Treseler reinvents an expansive New England imaginary.
