The baby in “Uncanny” could be a newborn or a poem—it tracks the amazement we bring to a creation that we’ve had little nothing to…
Though not esoteric, the poems are certainly not easy either. They are by turns abstract and concrete, tender and brutal, glib and sincere. They don’t…
Pui Ying Wong’s book of poems, Fanling in October, is both restrained and deeply surprising. She is a traveler, not just across borders, but across…
Loop Light awhile under the door then gone then you out into the dawn and then me back asleep.
Unfiltered and full of dark humor, desire, and sexual energy, Southwick’s debut poetry collection, Orchid Alpha, unpacks the id of the modern day woman. The…
The forward slash is used, of course, to indicate a line break when writing about poetry and since forward slashes are used throughout, “A Baton”—one…
Every Single Bird Rising is this poet’s second language. Xiaoly Li’s debut collection is both weightless and heavy, depending on the line your eyes end…
Almost a decade ago, when I was in the thick of writing the first drafts of “The Itch” and the other linked stories in Radical…
From October 2019 to May 2020, poet Sean Singer and I wrote variously lined stanzas back and forth between where he was in New York…
There’s much discourse around Marie Kondo. Something about the ill effects of late capitalism being assigned to the individual or choice rubs people the wrong…