Poets come equipped. Where mortals lower their lids in terror, poets play a game of stare down—making hay through the pain, lemonade of loss, fun of fear—never ever looking away. Steely Andy Young lives in New Orleans after a... Read More

In "The Other Altar", Nicholas Gulig reminds us there is always another way, word, time to discover in grief a never-known strength. The author of North of Order and Orient, Gulig is the 2023–24 poet laureate of Wisconsin. Thai... Read More

Phanopoeia, explained Ezra Pound, is “the throwing of an image on the mind’s retina” on the “visual imagination.” When she flits between wolves and space trash, glass eyes and does and “bruised skin of milk,” Maria Williams... Read More

Black lesbian feminist Cheryl Clarke’s five-decade poetry career accommodated a second pursuit—a little matter of changing the world to be a better place for Black women, the LGBTQ+ community, and the disenfranchised. A veteran of... Read More

In whatever she does on the page, Katie Prince practices a subtle, omnipresent cadence of syllables so physically pleasing as to cause a blush. Linguistics, science fiction, philosophy, grief—polymathematician at ease—in this debut... Read More

Wherever souls reside, all the rules of time and space, language and thought succumb to an older way of being—and that is where Ricky Ray hangs out with Addie, his old brown dog. An ecomystic animist, Ray’s work explores their... Read More

The good poet’s body slowly leaves one sex for another and she wonders what else, if anything, will change—the Jewishness that influences so much of her world; the Holocaust memories of twelve murdered ancestors; love and sex; fear... Read More

Moving through the ambiguities of language—English, Spanish, and Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní—the grin of a big cat shadowing his every unstealthy step through North and South American habitats and fixed ideas of manhood, Diego... Read More