Encapsulating the life of a 17th-century naturalist in 80 pages of verse is no easy task, and North Carolina-based poet Alyse Bensel rises to the…
This story started maybe twenty years ago with some anecdotes my biologist cousin shared about her field research, including observing Canada Jays in the north…
This poem came to be when I was very sick with something called SARS-CoV-2. The city was so quiet, except for the sirens. You could…
I drafted “Poem on My Birthday” during the very early hours of December 18, 2019, my 35th. I had just completed several months of studying…
Abounding with the events of the everyday, hallucinations, observations, tributes, and of course, birds, Ornitheology is a book of second-glances and rereading, where meaning is…
David A. Romero’s My Name Is Romero is a funny, dark, investigatory look at what it means to be Latinx in our present moment. Romero…
I have long bristled at the suggestion that writing is therapy, and have secretly and now not so secretly, distanced myself from that notion. Writing…
Taking on the persona of Lucie (itself a tribute to her own use of persona in both A Hunger and The Master Letters), included honoring…
Though you love life and all of its peaceable securities what is subdued in you sparks and burns with jolly brightness, and you are a…
“Miracle” is a weighty word in the best of times and perhaps never weightier than in, as you say, times of plague. I was raised…