During a six-month period when I first began writing poetry, I read three writers whose work has been shaping my own for the past thirty-two years. This personal triptych of literary works—the…

During a six-month period when I first began writing poetry, I read three writers whose work has been shaping my own for the past thirty-two years. This personal triptych of literary works—the…
The Fifth Wound, Aurora Mattia’s debut novel (Nightboat Books, March 2023), is both prose and…
I I am reading a book called Wallace Stevens and the Actual World. I have been thinking about how to engage the actual world in my own poetry. (That has always been…
“Ingredients” appears in Issue 44. *** Have other people swept their floors with such desperation…
Jennifer Jean’s poetry collections include VOZ, Object Lesson, and The Fool. Her resource book is Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry. Her poems and co-translations appear in POETRY, Rattle, The Common,…
Violence permeates the landscape of Zein El-Amine’s story collection Is This How You Eat A…