“A stranger to myself”: A Conversation with Dobby Gibson

Dobby Gibson is the author of Little Glass Planet; Polar, which won the Alice James Award; Skirmish; and It Becomes You. His poetry has appeared in Fence, New England Review, and Ploughshares, among others.…

To the Power of X: A Review of Mary Peelen’s ‘Quantum Heresies’

I spend a lot of time with mathematicians (my partner being one), so I know…

To Inherit and To Bequeath: A Review of Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s ‘The Many Names for Mother’

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s prize-winning poetry collection, The Many Names for Mother (Kent State University Press), begins and ends in the clouds but lives very much in this world. In the opening poem,…

“Imagining decay comes easily to me”: A Conversation with Rose McLarney

Rose McLarney is the author of three collections of poetry, Forage, Its Day Being Gone,…

“Let’s only sit and listen”: A Review of John James’s ‘The Milk Hours’

It often feels like the ailment of our current society is that we want things instantaneously, for results to be laid out for easy comprehension without being willing to sit and observe…

“Check your circle”: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins

Morgan Jerkins is the Senior Editor at ZORA and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia…