Finding Toussaint Louverture, Spartacus of the Haitian Revolution
Contemplating Toussaint Louverture’s unfulfilled promise alongside his immense accomplishments.
Conversations: Bitan Chakraborty and Kiriti Sengupta
“Every detail is credible, anchored in the mundane reality of city-dwellers in urban metropolises in contemporary India. [Bitan] Chakraborty is not a fantasist or fabulist; reality is an unvarying constant…
On the Fairy Tales School of English-Language Poetry
Poets reframing, repurposing, revising, and revisioning fairy tales are producing some of the most inventive and dynamic poetry today.
Loosening the Flesh & the Mind: Relic & The Taking of Deborah Logan
Watching horror movies is a kind of mastery. Metaphors become literal, and real horror is supernatural.
Conversations: Tina Cane and Nick Courtright
Put simply: Humor Saves. I am a fan of humor as a survival mechanism, an ice-breaker, a rhetorical device, and vice.
Why Learning a New Language is Like an Illicit Love Affair
Those are the languages that will consume you—all of you—as you do everything to make them yours.
For Love of the Earth, and the Luck of a Poet: on Derek Sheffield’s Not for Luck
Poets like Sheffield have admonished us not to speak on behalf of the earth…
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.