Benjamin Landry is the author of Burn Lyrics, Particle and Wave, and An Ocean Away. He received a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for his poetry, which has appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and the New Yorker. Learn more about his work at www.benjaminlandry.wordpress.com.
Nature's Nature
May/June 2016
Listen
Static or statistic, you’re within the range of influence. The front splinters on the mountain’s back, the bowl fracturing as the water within it freezes: evident peril. But what registers […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2016
Witness
The suburbs dry out. And in truly rural places, pavement breaks up, goes back to the land. Given enough time, buildings slouch with the bedrock. Shingles and tar paper curl […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2016
Myotis lucifugus
To be “mouse-eared” and “light-fearing,” hold in corners, require the warmth of others, half a million in winter. If there’s a creature of the cabinet, the eave, the tucked-away hearth, […]
Spring 2014
Into Focus: Brenda Shaughnessy’s Our Andromeda
“[H]ow anyone becomes herself / is a mystery. A miracle. A myth.”
Fall 2013
Waver
The air of a place takes doing. Not to mention the mistake of this morning, but mention it. Cut crystal. Might as well hold the rain back with two hands. There is no one in the bed upstairs, only a heavy square of sunlight going oblique where a redhead once was.