KR Online Issues Archive

PoetryPoetry

• Cynthia Arrieu-King
  Explaining the Sublime
• Tacey Atsitty
  Vail Her Stallion; Round Our Wrists
• William Fuller
  From My Windows
• Brenda Hillman
  The Elements are Mixed in Childhood
• Benjamin Landry
  Waver
• Alex Lemon
  Your Life is The Bed I’m Gonna Lay Down In
• Amit Majmudar
  Steep Ascension
• Philip Metres
  The Iraqi Curator’s PowerPoint
• Lee Sharkey
  Temper as a Porcupine; Nothing but her Velvet Self; His Undoing
• David Welch
  The Forest Was Destroyed by the Introduction of Grazing Goats

FictionFiction

• Kris Faatz
  The Sphere of Time
• Daniel Peña Garcia
  Flying Mexicans
• Bryan Hurt
  My Other Car Drives Itself
• Andrew Roe
  The Riot and Rage that Love Brings
• Bryan Shawn Wang
  We Raised Them

EssayEssay

• Rebecca Gould
  Packing My Library: Benjaminian Fragments of a Peripatetic Life
• Jeff McMahon
  Taking Pictures
• Mary Ruefle
  My Private Property
• Sejal Shah
  Deluxe

ReviewReview

• Joelle Biele
  When Time is Running Out: John Koethe’s ROTC Kills
• Jesse Donaldson
  Generation B-ovine: Sam Byers’ Idiopathy
• Sean Patrick Hill
  No Greater Darkness: A Review of In Time’s Rift
• Anna Journey
  Alchemic Kitchens: On Hannah Gamble’s Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast
• Anna Journey
  What Is Left but Obsession: On Allison Benis White’s Small Porcelain Head
• Lori A. May
  Life, Edited: Sarah Pinder’s Cutting Room
• Mira Rosenthal
  Alice Oswald’s Memorial and the Reinvention of Translation
• Ryan Teitman
  All Things Are Things: Things That Are by Amy Leach
• G. C. Waldrep
  The Recovery Project Project

PoetryPoetry

• Krystelle Bamford
  The Second Wedding
• Bruce Bond
  The Invention of the Cry Track
• Ash Bowen
  Wolf
• Devon Branca
  Game Length (Part Three)
• Carol Frost
  Appetite
• Jerry Harp
  Encounter
• Rebecca Hazelton
  In the Garden, After; The Room Where There is Still Love
• David Hernandez
  Comment Thread in Response to “100 Best Flowers of the Year”
• Janine Joseph
  Swarm; Leaving the Nonprofit Immigration Lawyer’s Office
• Mark Kliewer
  The Garden of Earthly Delights; Trees are Lying their Asses Off
• Gellu Naum translated by MARGENTO and Martin Woodside
  From “The Animal-Tree”
• Irma Pineda translated by Wendy Call
  Death Surprised You

FictionFiction

• Matthew Baker
  “Here, Among the Black Sand Beaches of Kupang”: A Century of the American Word Industry in Review
• J. A. Bernstein
  The Killer
• Chelsea Bolan
  Vodník
• Olivia Clare
  Rusalka’s Long Legs
• Chris Drangle
  Kink
• Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley
  The Reach of a Root
• Kathryn Martins
  UNFINIShed
• Sam Nam
  Do Something, Anything
• Christa Romanosky
  Sex Education
• Gabriel Urza
  Last Indian Massacre

EssayEssay

• Brian Doyle
  A Note on Learning Gaelic
• Bonnie Levinson
  Sun on Your Back
• Alex Miller and Boris Deliradev
  Letters to and from Bulgaria
• Ales Steger translated by Brian Henry
  Teufelsberg
• Peter Trachtenberg
  Tomorrow and Tomorrow

ReviewReview

• Jeremy Bass
  Dark Luminosity: Laura Kasischke’s Space, in Chains
• Kristen Evans
  On Rusty Morrison’s Book of the Given
• Andy Frazee
  Homing in: Peter Gizzi’s Threshold Songs
• Jessica Freeman-Slade
  Quicksilver Memories of an Invented World: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia
• Morgan Fritz
  Negative Capabilities: Hugh Sheehy’s The Invisibles
• Anna Journey
  Bring Out Memory’s Erotica: On Beckian Fritz Goldberg’s Egypt from Space
• Emilia Phillips
  Becoming Feral: a Review of Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye
• Hilary Plum
  The Ballad Form: Kate Greenstreet’s Young Tambling
• Ben Purkert
  Spiraling to the Point: Sally Keith’s The Fact of the Matter
• Rachel Richardson
  Lucille Clifton’s Expansive, Collective “i”

Special FeatureSpecial Feature

• David Baker
  Hunger to Hunger: Hungry / Foame | An Introduction
• Various Poets
  Hunger to Hunger: Hungry / Foame

PoetryPoetry

• Hilary Vaughn Dobel
  On the Distance of the Painter’s Arm
• Michael Hulse
  Swiss National Day in Lavigny
• Anna Journey
  Three Poems
• Andrew Kozma
  Ode to the Tiny, Red, Stupid Bugs That Cluster on My Mailbox; Ode to the Male Honeybee; Ode to the Love Bug
• Eric Pankey
  Speculation on the History of Drawing; Speculation on the Little Ice Age
• Shelley Puhak
  Elaine of Corbenic, Lancelot’s Baby-Momma, Meets Guinevere at the Employee Picnic; Lancelot Questions the Clairvoyant

FictionFiction

• H.V. Chao
  My Father’s Hand
• Tara Goedjen
  Dear Cousin
• Natalie Mesnard
  Prayer
• Ersi Sotiropoulos
  Even in Paradise, Someone Will Be Bluffing . . .
• Claire Vaye Watkins
  Wasteland, Wasteland, Wasteland
• Nancy Zafris
  Man in Circles

EssayEssay

• Jill Bialosky
  The Unreasoning Mask: The Shared Interior Architecture of Poetry and Memoir
• Hannah Brooks-Motl
  The Smallest Space: Lyric Aphorism in Contemporary Poetry
• Marsha McGregor
  The Door

ReviewReview

• Rachel Abramowitz
  The Dangers of Enchantment: Heather Christle’s The Trees The Trees
• Joelle Biele
  On Art and Katrina: Brad Richard’s Motion Studies
• Micah Bateman
  His City Repeats Itself: Wayne Miller’s The City, Our City
• Gerald Duff
  “A Thought Turned to Stone”: David Madden’s London Bridge in Plague and Fire
• John James
  Domestic Threat: Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
• Ryan McDermott
  The Ivy Power: Don Lee’s The Collective
• Jane Rose Porter
  On Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
• Mira Rosenthal
  The Voice Under the Voice of Every Casual Word: Tom Sleigh’s Army Cats
• Amy Wright
  An Arch Under the Instep: Sven Birkertsʼ The Other Walk

January 2014January 2014

• Fady Joudah
  In the Name of the Letter, the Spirit, and the Double Helix

February 2014February 2014

• Katy Didden
  “Listen Now Again”: A Credo in Echoes

March 2014March 2014

• Will Schutt
  A Skeptic’s Faith

April 2014April 2014

• Beth Ann Fennelly
  So Far

May 2014May 2014

• Amit Majmudar
  A Definition of Terms

June 2014June 2014

• Elliott Holt
  Necessity and Truth

July 2014July 2014

• Alan Heathcock
  On Suffering

August 2014August 2014

• Solmaz Sharif
  A Poetry of Proximity

September 2014September 2014

• Megan Mayhew Bergman
  Managing the Risks of Socially-Conscious Writing

October 2014October 2014

• Lucia Perillo
  World and Word

November 2014November 2014

• Rowan Ricardo Phillips
  As Though We Have Nothing Else to Rely On

December 2014December 2014

• Leslie A. Fiedler
  Towards an Amateur Criticism

Autumn 1950Autumn 1950

• Herbert Read
  The Critic As Man of Feeling

Autumn 1950Autumn 1950

• Richard Chase
  Art, Nature, Politics

Autumn 1950Autumn 1950

• William Empson
  The Verbal Analysis

Autumn 1950Autumn 1950

• Cleanth Brooks
  The Formalist Critics

Winter 1951Winter 1951

• Douglas Bush
  The Humanist Critic

Winter 1951Winter 1951

• Northrop Frye
  The Archetypes of Literature

Winter 1951Winter 1951

• Stephen Spender
  On the Function of Criticism

Spring 1951Spring 1951

• Arthur Mizener
  Not in Cold Blood

Spring 1951Spring 1951

• Austin Warren
  The Teacher as a Critic

Spring 1951Spring 1951

PoetryPoetry

• M. Shahid Alam
  Two Versions of a Ghazal from Ghalib
• Bruce Bond
  Ginsberg; Schopenhauer; Whitman
• Claudia Cortese
  Hurricane Irene Fingers My Hair
• Rebecca Dunham
  Blowout
• Shane McCrae
  After the Uprising
• Maggie Schwed
  Country Ways
• Jeanie Thompson
  The Myth of W-a-t-e-r; In Which She Puts to Rest the Mirror; Encounter in Montgomery, 1918

FictionFiction

• Brian Doyle
  Chauncy Street
• Janelle Garcia
  How Things Might Have Gone and Other Wasted Thoughts
• Scott Garson
  Advent Santa
• Hilary Leichter
  A Typeface for Senior Citizens
• Melanie Nead
  Goodbye to the Small Man
• Youssef Rakha
  Thus Spoke Che Nawwarah: Interview with a Revolutionary
• Shula Rosen
  The Invisible Chassidishe Maidel (The Invisible Chassidic Girl)
• Hannah Withers
  Belly of the Whale

EssayEssay

• Amy Boesky
  The Ghost Writes Back
• Ella Finer
  “The composition is different, that is certain”—Ophelia Composing Herself
• Tom Hart
  Great Meadows Gallery

Short Fiction ContestShort Fiction Contest

• Cassie Gonzales
  Sleeping Out
• Andrea Dulanto
  Winter Clothes
• Madiha Sattar
  Home

ReviewReview

• Dilruba Ahmed
  To Open Up Another Person’s Body: C. Dale Young’s Torn
• Vanessa Blakeslee
  Heart of the Matter: Myfanwy Collins’ Echolocation
• Darcie Dennigan and Carl Dimitri
  A Pictorial Review of I Take Back the Sponge Cake
• Adam Eaglin
  “Begin What You Are”: On Henri Cole’s Touch
• Jessica Freeman-Slade
  In the (Parents’) Basement: Leigh Stein’s The Fallback Plan
• Anna Journey
  Watermark and Fable: On Eduardo C. Corral’s Slow Lightning
• Ben Purkert
  Strength, Sweetness, and More: The Available World by Ander Monson
• Dan Rosenberg
  What the Tapeworm Wants: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things
• John Brown Spiers
  “This Baggy Monster”: Gretchen E. Henderson’s Galerie de Difformité
• John Steen
  Crazy Badland of the Tongue: Cyrus Console’s The Odicy
• Alexander Yates
  Shirking the Genre Ghetto: On Lev Grossman’s The Magician King and the Fantastical Novel in 2012

PoetryPoetry

• Rafael Acevedo Translated by Erica Mena
  Silent Dragon
• Adam Clay
  The Idea of Home as a Haunt
• Carol Ann Davis
  September 7, 2001; To Ottla on the Subject of Our Ablation
• Rochelle Hurt
  Diorama of a Funeral; Diorama of a Tiny Death
• Christopher Phelps
  Nursing Home; Embodiment
• Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
  Margin, Error; Wanted
• Anne Shaw
  Small Bang Theory
• Layli Long Soldier
  H^e Sapa

FictionFiction

• Amanda Aszman
  Over the Peace Line
• Shavonne Clarke
  Time Capsule
• Anne Germanacos
  Undertaking
• Hannah Pass
  Remedy
• Helen Maryles Shankman
  The Golem of Zukow
• Elizabeth Kate Switaj
  The Woman You Don’t Expect

EssayEssay

• Julia Cohen
  Self-Machinationⁱ & Motesⁱⁱ: an Essay on Attempt
• Thomas Glave
  The Bloodpoeple in the Language
• Karen Malpede
  How to Know the Unbearable
• Khaled Mattawa
  Libya’s Day of Liberation: One Year On
• Anna Sun
  The Diseased Language of Mo Yan

InterviewInterview

• Anna Journey
  A Conversation with Anna Journey: Q & A with Davis McCombs’s Graduate Poetry Course

ReviewReview

• Vanessa Blakeslee
  Evening Blueness in the West: Gerald Duff’s Blue Sabine
• Patrick Dacey
  Uncommon Vision: Melanie Rae Thon’s In This Light: New and Selected Stories
• Jenny Johnson
  Questions of Citizenship: Alice Notley’s Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
• Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
  On Manoleria by Daniel Khalastchi
• M. Lynx Qualey
  Geography and One’s Own Room: Adania Shibli’s We Are All Equally Far from Love
• Rachel Richardson
  Art of Losing: On Raptus by Joanna Klink
• Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
  Hurtling Along: on Ennui Prophet by Christopher Kennedy
• Theodore Wheeler
  Confidence Men: Christopher Narozny’s Jonah Man

PoetryPoetry

• Catherine Barnett
  Categories of Understanding; From the Doorway; Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid
• Michelle Boisseau
  Mid-Day Sunrise
• Jay Hopler
  So Many Birds to Kill and So Few Stones
• Zilka Joseph
  Death of a Frog; You, Without Shoes
• Nathaniel Perry
  Thunder Moon
• Michael Peterson
  Three poems from Repeater
• Nance Van Winckel
  Loyal Order Of

FictionFiction

• Brian Doyle
  Four Boston Basketball Stories
• John Kinsella
  Orbit
• Robert Kostuck
  Vanda
• Kelly Magee
  You’re Not Going to Die
• Madeline McDonnell
  It Was the Summer
• Ilan Stavans translated by Harry Morales
  Who?
• Mabel Yu
  A Matter of Course

EssayEssay

• Thomas Gibbs
  The Nigerian Dentist’s Cousin
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  The Blues: A Craft Manifesto
• Timothy Kenny
  The Siege of Sarajevo, July 1992
• Khaled Mattawa
  On Libya’s Recent Elections
• Peter Selgin
  Unclassifiables: A Tour of Books on My Bed Stand

ReviewReview

• Jensen Beach
  Moses’ Son: Adam Levin’s Hot Pink
• Elaine Bleakney
  Reading Ravicka: Two Novels in a Trilogy by Renee Gladman
• Erika Jo Brown
  Aspen and Plastic: Adam Fell’s I Am Not a Pioneer
• Dan Chelotti
  The Capital World: Geoffrey Nutter’s Christopher Sunset
• Patrick Dacey
  Among the Ash-heaps: Vanessa Veselka’s Zazen
• Keith Ekiss
  First in Vers Libre: Jules Laforgue’s Last Verses
• Anna Journey
  If the Past Is a Ghost Town: On Catherine Pierce’s The Girls of Peculiar
• Adam Novy
  Zen and the Art: Christopher Boucher’s How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
• Craig Santos Perez
  On Robert Sullivan’s Cassino: City of Martyrs/Città Martire
• Nathan Poole
  Becoming: The Southern Subjunctive of Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Birds of a Lesser Paradise