Issue 57 | November-December 2018
Torn in the sky: on Ilya Kaminsky and Shane McCrae
In Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky connects our current era to a place and time that feels Soviet, although familiar. The book is a narrative with dramatis personae—townspeople, an unborn child,…
Conversations: Heidi Seaborn and Martin Ott
“My goal is to reach people who never read poetry, to start a conversation where they see a place for poetry in their lives.”
The gay-suicide stereotype kills gay people, and must end
Friedrich Alfred Krupp, heir to the mammoth Krupp armaments business and the wealthiest man in Germany, committed suicide on 22 November 1902. Only a week before, a socialist newspaper had…
Chameleon Poet: The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, by Gillian Cummings
In selecting her manuscript for the 2018 Colorado Prize forPoetry, John Yau praises Gillian Cummings using a phrase from Keats, calling her a “cameleon Poet.” Cummings has written two prize-winning…
Conversations: Femi Osofisan and ‘Jide Ajidahun
Femi Osofisan is a Marxist Nigerian playwright, scholar, critic, journalist, producer, director, and essayist.