Joannie Stangeland – Things I Forgot about Love
Things I Forgot about Love In this boat, we each have an oar. How not to row in circles. It isn’t the waves. We can ride the waves. How gently we can rock, the shoreline thinning. It isn’t only the green ocean, the fever, heart wingful. It isn’t about a map, but that map might […]
Martha Silano – Poetry,
Poetry, they said. Focus like a plank of wood stays focused on the plank it rubs against, the nails, on the warping as they age. Stay creative. Like others, create. Flourish like a leaf leafing, like a Kentucky spring, like the network in a stem. Let your brain be French or Guyanese, create un-dreading routines. […]
Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Asterism Ae Hee Lee Tupelo Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards In a recent online event in which Ae Hee Lee read poems from her new, first full-length collection, Asterism, she shared that in writing it she was “engaging with the idea of longing,” which she “tried to reimagine as something that moves and expands … […]
Alicia Rebecca Myers – Air
Air I almost named my son after Amelia Earhart. I admire how Earhart is pronounced like the sky she flew in, and not the way it looks, like the organ of hearing. At the audiologist, after my sudden deafness, certain words sounded muffled, so that here became there, and throw, with its lightness, became stow. […]
Michael Montlack – Marie Curie’s Notebooks Are Still Radioactive
Marie Curie’s Notebooks Are Still Radioactive Maybe it’s an eternal way of saying Keep Out! Hasn’t she already given us enough? In Florence, Galileo’s middle finger remains under glass. I admire the pluck. His. And those curators. Especially if they aimed it toward the Vatican. All this reminds me of the guy who designed the […]
