So Says My Interiority: Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone
Reading these poems asks us, guides us, to read everything with our whole being.
Conversations: Tennison S. Black and James Morehead
“What does the act of committing your memories to a poem do to the memories themselves?”
Trans-Parency: An Appreciation of Mary Meriam
An appreciation of the True Countess of the Enchanted Forest Of Flatbroke.
“There are no whole stories, only fragments:” The Poetry of Gopal Lahiri
Lahiri is a priest who presides over its rituals of adoration, chanting the mantras of creation.
Zeitgeist & Gristle: an Ecocritical Appraisal of Specter Mountain
When all is said and done, the mountain grants no quarter to those who refuse to respect its dominion.
Borderwork: Katarina Zdjelar’s Käthe Kollwitz
It accumulates, repeats, obsesses, this interest in Kollwitz’s work, always back to the physical shock of her art.
If the stillness is Volcanic: Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love (2022) and Werner Herzog’s The Fire Within (2022)
Dosa and Herzog invest their gaze on two decidedly different surfaces of the taut rope on which Katia and Maurice walk: the glow and the burn.
Conversations: Nicole Callihan and Anna V. Q. Ross
“The intimacy, yes. The kinship. Here is my poem; here is my mind.”
A Local Habitation and a Name: On Luke Fischer’s A Gamble for My Daughter
Fischer is a poet of unique ambition and intelligence.