October 9, 2024
Heartbeat
My heart is swollen. More accurately, the lining that stretches around it, one of the countless sacs and membranes that make up me and that I never think about and […]
October 9, 2024
Mast Year
When my father calls, sometimes I pretend to listen. Sometimes I pretend I am not scrolling through my phone or staring at my laptop, my mind wandering. I blame my […]
October 9, 2024
The Haircut
The Kenyon Review · “Dissection of my Grandmother’s Eye” by Acadia Reynolds I watch my father roll Bà nội into the courtyard to cut her hair in the warmth of […]
October 9, 2024
Gone for a Spell
The Kenyon Review · “Gone for a Spell” by Angie Romines Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, […]
October 8, 2024
River Dam of Confession
I grew up in a tree hollow. If a tree hollow is a kind of metaphor (it is), I want to knead it into flesh, like the soft-sweet of my […]
August 9, 2024
On the Act of Arrival
There is always that step, that motion, that willing of the body into a new space. Late fall in New York City, a bright warm day following a day of […]
June 4, 2024
On Extraction Extinction Poems
The Kenyon Review · Schmidt – On Extraction the new Age of Extinctions is now says the silence-that-precedes — you know not what you are entering, a time beyond belief. Who is […]
June 3, 2024
Philip Metres Introduces Paige Webb
Since my first encounter with Paige Webb’s poetry, I have been struck by their original relationship to language. Like some of their favorite poets—Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Emily Dickinson—Webb finds […]
June 3, 2024
Susan Barba’s Radical Gambit
The subtle, magical legerdemain by which, in her new poems, Susan Barba merges subjectivity with the nonhuman has not only aesthetic but also ethical implications. If the current human-generated ecological […]
June 3, 2024
Phillip B. Williams Introduces Jasmine Reid
In Jasmine Reid’s poems, I find nature’s innate life transcribed as idiolect for the speaker’s body, desire, and acts of relating to another (betrothed, lover, the erotic self). Whatever each […]
June 3, 2024
Mary Szybist Introduces Alicia Wright
In her essay “On Writing About Dorothy Wordsworth’s The Grasmere Journal,” Alicia Wright wonders: What if, yes, we can source a kind of ecocritical origin in The Grasmere Journal, distinct […]
June 3, 2024
Evie Shockley Introduces Ariana Benson
Ariana Benson’s debut collection, Black Pastoral, has seeded my psyche with its lush and thorny language. The poems it contains taught me to read its title with the irony due […]