When we learned that Anthony had an essay waiting for a publisher, we leapt. Anthony’s writing has always stunned us, and his prose is no exception, as full of art and heartbreak as anything else you’ll read today. Please enjoy…
When we read contributor Kendra Allen’s latest book, When You Learn the Alphabet (winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction), we knew we had to have her share some of her wonderful writing about the special space between poetry and…
As a platform focused on uplifting the emerging and new poets entering out community, we’ve had many discussions about our complicated relationship with the word “emerging.” Jiwon Choi’s interview-essay hybrid here explores the weight and worry of the term beautifully,…
Susan Yanos was selected last year as our 2018 Frontier Fellow—she is a wonderfully insightful writer and represents a voice and perspective not heard enough in our shared creative spaces (order her debut collection The Tongue Has No Bone from…
Susan Yanos was selected last year as our Frontier Fellow—she is a wonderfully insightful writer and represents a voice and perspective not heard enough in our shared creative spaces. We proudly publish this essay of hers, on the inclusion and…
Professor Robin Greene comes to deliver a needed reminder to all of us sending our work out to the world: we write not for the sake of outcomes, but for “something naked and necessary.” As you look forward into 2019,…
We’re honored to share with you all this new essay by the wonderful poet Andrés Cerpa. His reflections on the way we all influence each other are decidedly apt for our community today, our remixes, our crowd-sourced poetry—and he couldn’t have…
Natasha Tretheway calls the book “a piercing meditation, rooted in loss and longing, and manifest in dazzling leaps of the imagination.” And Patrick Rosal: “In Some Say the Lark, anything can erupt into fury, anything into tenderness.” Jennifer Chang’s second…
I Know Your Kind by William Brewer is a bristling collection of poems set in West Virginia’s Oxycontin capital, selected for the National Poetry Series. “The result is a chorus of interrogations that peer at addiction from every angle,” says…
francine j. harris says his poems “are as reverent and irreverent in the face of addiction as they are in the search for self.” Frank Bidart (National Book Award nominee this year) calls the book a “bounty, an intensely inventive…
