I just knew they had to be silent… the pain is not out in the room, the pain in ourselves is invisible, inside ourselves. –– Bill Viola
Poetry: Arisa White
SHE: A SISTER OUTSIDER’S HEROINE’S JOURNEY
Poetry: Emily Oliver
Third Day Below Zero
Poetry: Truong Tran
you read a book that begins as obligation you owe it to your friend who was once your student you read it in the hopes of framing its virtues in a few sentences you read a book in the shape…
Pablo Lopez: “NOTE ON THE POEM AS A SITE OF UNINTERRUPTED INTERSECTIONS”
Poiein: to make. No matter the numerous etymological routes, one arrives at to make. The emphasis is not on the maker. The maker: the poet, though active, is not the action. The making is the thing. The all-important thing: performing…
Geoffrey G. O’Brien: Canceled Pastoral: Ashbery’s “The Instruction Manual” and Genre Responsibility
This essay was originally delivered as a talk at Saint Mary’s College, September 16, 2015. The poet and critic Allen Grossman has said that poetry addresses itself to two fundamental problems or limits: death and the barrier of other people’s…