Poetry is an act of witness. An act of witnessing the world, language, the self, or in my book, A Ghost Has No Fantasies, history. Once the book was published in January,…
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In the forty-eight pages that comprise her slim and tender poetry collection Red Seed: Poems…
D.S. Waldman is the author of the poetry collection Atria (Liveright/WW Norton, 2026). His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, ZYZZYVA, and many other…
On average, the human body completely replaces all its component cells every seven years. Which…
In Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese,” she writes, “You do not have to be good . . . You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what…
A soul cake, I did not know, was a small, spiced cake given to the…