November 1, 2018
Young Poets Introduction
Editor at Large2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, now in its fifteenth year, recognizes an outstanding single poem by […]
November 1, 2018
Memorial Time: Poetry, Elegy, and the War Memorial
In 1982, Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial was erected on the Washington, DC, mall to a storm of criticism. Senators and citizens alike complained about its lack of elegiac or […]
September 1, 2018
Editor’s Notes: A Poet of Many Dimensions
The artwork on the cover of this issue is, it seems to me, deeply mysterious and puzzling. If you devote the time to sit and stare, just as you might […]
September 1, 2018
I Love You. You Have Nice Hands
When I was singing I always wanted to disappear so the audience could hear the song better and not have to look at me. I almost felt I’d achieved this […]
July 1, 2018
Natural Dreamwork and the Poetic Imagination
Images heal the imagination. This discovery distinguishes the poetry of William Wordsworth. I’ve witnessed this same healing potency in dream images. In what follows I’m going to give readings of […]
July 1, 2018
The Journal of My Psychidae
after Shiki Masaoka’s Verse Record August 17 This morning, H calculated that he’ll be dead within six months. Sitting in the shade, he noticed a juniper branch bobbing and drew […]
May 1, 2018
Editor’s Notes: Literary Activism and the World We Live In
We live in a moment of political and cultural turmoil. To an unprecedented degree, individuals from across the vast spectrum of our society are demanding basic human dignity along with […]
May 1, 2018
You Didn’t Hear It from Me
1 Blanket That day, the day after, on the neighbor’s side of our low, backyard wall, I ate raisins and watched beetles creep between stones, listening to other bugs tick […]
March 1, 2018
Forest of Feelings
I’m worried about my daughter’s vagina. At her birth I hold and nurse her for twenty minutes before I realize I haven’t seen it yet. “Has anyone confirmed she’s a […]
March 1, 2018
“Within Stone / the Mind Writhes”
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 736 pp. $40.00. For those who know Frank Bidart’s poems, the idea of him as a great […]
March 1, 2018
Editor’s Notes: The Exciting Program of “KR”‘s Summer Programs
As I write these notes, winter has just barreled into Gambier. The trees are stark and bare, the sky a pale, sere blue. Our students (and, yes, we instructors as […]
January 1, 2018
Introduction: Generation Zero: New Cuban Poetry
In a recent interview, the renowned Polish poet, Adam Zagajewski, declared that in his country, “poetry killed communism.” Our point in bringing this up isn’t to question his position and […]