Eric Ekstrand is a poet living and working in North Carolina. His first full-length collection, Laodicea, was selected by Donald Revell for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize. He is the recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship awarded by the Poetry Foundation and graduated with his MFA from the University of Houston in 2010. He teaches creative writing and composition at Wake Forest University. His poems can be found in Poetry, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, Bat City Review, and elsewhere.
Summer 2016
A Single Young Shoot Growing Straight Up Out of the Snow: The Stinging Brilliant Green of Sagawa’s Modernism
In this first English language Collected from Canarium, Sawako Nakayasu’s cold-rolled translations introduce Anglophone readers to the forward expressionism of Sagawa Chika, one of Japan’s early and almost-forgotten Modernists.
Winter 2016
Cute and Full of Ardor: David Bartone Reads into Heartbreak
David Bartone’s Practice on Mountains, selected by Dan Beachy-Quick for the 2013 Sawtooth Prize, is a confession in the genre of a reading notebook, where twentieth-century poetry informs the inner life of a speaker navigating a doomed love affair with a married woman.