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In her candid new poetry chapbook i’m probably betraying my body (Bottlecap Press, 2024), linda harris dolan grieves the loss of her…

Petra Kuppers’ new collection of poetry, Diver Beneath the Street positions her as a poet laureate of the wounded world’s layers. For the…

“This place is not finished with me.”

What do you think of when you hear the word “burn”? Do you think of a fast and brutal annihilation? Or do you think of a new start — a…

It begins, as life does, with burial: placing a link to the past in the earth. The burial of the dead is so often a matter of funerary pomp…

My struggle with Memory Piece began with turning a slow and uncomfortable eye toward my own internalized ideas of Asian-Americanness, a…

“A long series of unspeakable events led to the rise of mass deviation, the collapse of the social order. We need now only know RSCH was…

The setup is straightforward. There is a dead man’s fortune, his loyal caretaker, and the dead man’s dog. The dead man’s fortune falls to…

Who are our cultural gods, and how do we question them? How do we manage when our personal histories and cultural histories intersect? How…

Identifying as Black, or having a conscious awareness of one’s Black identity, involves always holding a version of oneself that conflicts…

Magical / Realism—a collection of personal essays about pop culture, identity formation, border history, immigration, and other…

Inviting the Reader Into the Poem: Danielle Vogel’s The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity (Red Hen Press, 2020)

[An Excerpt from All Water Has Perfect Memory]

Two queer poets who go way back talk about how textiles commanded their most recent projects in verse — Rae’s new book-length poem The…

Galáxias by Haroldo de Campos, translated by Odile Cisneros (Ugly Duckling Presse, May 2024)

I was supposed to write this review half a year ago. I have given many different people different excuses: a period of deep personal…

Is there a place where black men can go

In 2018, best-selling author Jami Attenberg launched #1000WordsOfSummer with a friend, pledging to write 1,000 words daily for two weeks…

Poetic Conversations column is so pleased and lucky to share new blackout poetry by writer-poet, scholar, teacher, force of art-nature ~…

Canoe Chase on the Horican

John West’s Lessons and Carols is a book of experimental and genre-defying fragments that chronicle the author’s relationship to addiction…

— for MF DOOM

Published by The University of Arizona Press, When Language Broke Open is a new anthology edited by Alan Pelaez Lopez which aims to…