Issue 70 | March 2022
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.
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