June 18, 2017
A Letter to My Father on Father’s Day
—and there was a young ram who’d climb to the top of the mountain with the rest of his family, and they were wild and belonged to no one […]
April 12, 2017
Honoring Our Editors
At my last CantoMundo retreat in the summer of 2015, I wrote a poem called “Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7” which freed, rather than mourned, the many complexities and […]
November 11, 2016
“We need to know how to go about reaching the next days of our lives”
Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” is going around again. W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” is circling through social media, as it did after September 11. Why do we turn to poems […]
February 7, 2015
#poetinspaceproject
We’ve sent animals and plants into outer space and observed them. We’ve sent scientists of various disciplines to run experiments—that is, to do their work in that environment and […]