Amy Wright is the author of Everything in the Universe (Iris Press), Cracker Sonnets (Brick Road Poetry Press), and five chapbooks. She is also Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 Press, and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University.
Nonfiction
Sept/Oct 2015
Mēl
Meal (mēl) n. The quantity of milk given by a cow at any one milk ing; also, the time of milking, e.g., R. W. Dickson Practical Agriculture (1807): it may […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
Micrographia, or, Some Physiological Observations of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Without Robert Hooke, curious Charles II might glimpse a flea hop on a dog’s back to suck a drop, or the paw scratch his own hide off to find the […]
KR Reviews
What Could Be Done Is Yet to Come: Alison Hawthorne Deming’s Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit
Bitten in the face by two escaped dogs at three years of age, Alison Hawthorne Deming seems an unlikely author of a book subtitled On Animals and the Human Spirit, but that’s presuming she would respond with fear or horror to at least species with incisors.
Summer 2016
The One You’ve Been Waiting For: Joni Tevis’s The World is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse
The subtitle to Joni Tevis’s latest essay collection—“Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse”—makes room for a disjointed gathering.
Spring 2013
An Arch Under the Instep: Sven Birkertsʼ The Other Walk
Readers of Sven Birkertsʼ Editorʼs Notes in AGNI will be familiar with the value he places on contemplation. Whether his subject is the Jeopardy face-off between man and machine or cyber-fantasia, he studies it with a mode of thought often associated with religious orders.