Spring 2024
Issue 107
£12.00
Physical magazine. Includes free UK shipping.
The Spring 2024 issue features work by Mona Kareem, as translated by Sara Elkamel, as well as new poems by Mary Ruefle, Paul Muldoon, Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Chin, Maria Stepanova, Timothy Donnelly, B.K. Fischer, Katie Peterson, Kimiko Hahn, and John Kinsella, among many others. This is André Naffis-Sahely’s final issue as poetry editor and it includes a valedictory editorial. Also featured are translations from Arabic, French, Hindi, Macedonian and Russian, as well as ‘House of Feels’, a craft essay by Dana Levin on sublimating pain through poetry, while Isabelle Baafi interviews Terrance Hayes and Tim Z. Hernandez.
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It’s Important I Remember That the United States Hasn’t Issued a Declaration of War Since World War II—
Cortney Lamar Charleston
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Contents
Editorial
André Naffis-Sahely Valedictory Editorial
Poems
- It’s Important I Remember That the United States Hasn’t Issued a Declaration of War Since World War II–
- from Holy Winter
- That Galen Learned His Trade / Truth and Reconciliation
- Signposts
- Winter vigil
- Providence
- Aboriginal / An Address to Fellow Writers
- Freedom
- Public Speaking
- Wildfires / Rain
- Circling
- Trigger
- Time / Laredo
- The Mother / Smoke
- Sundays / The Coming of Winter
- Dust / Tenderness / Instant / Sargon
- Arrangement
- In The Thousand-Year Reich
- Human Left Over
- [I was born in the landfill]
- Sorry to Eat
- King Kong Moments Before Being Called The K-Word
- Huevos
- [Swallow] with a haiku by Issa
- “So nothing worked out”
- How Many Lives Do You Have?
- A Latin American Crown of Sonnets / The Crown of the Virgin
- Night Walk Through Elysium: from Metamorphosis
- Untitled 1 / Untitled 2
- A Busload of Screaming Children
Selected Essays & Reviews
- Dana Levin House of Feels: A Craft Essay. On sublimating pain through poetry
- Isabelle Baafi interviews Tim Z. Hernandez Polishing the Mirror, Steering the Light
- Eric Yip Remembered, Reclaimed. Three collections that shed light on overlooked and misunderstood figures of history and literature
- Stephanie Sy-Quia This ‘Cavernous We’. Two collections that chart uneasy histories of migration and loss
- Jen Horsfall Beyond Borders. Three collections that permeate the boundaries between people, places and ideas
- Kate Simpson Enmeshed Poetics. On polyvocality: hybrid voices, archives, signs
- Tarn MacArthur The Future(s) of Craftsmanship. Three standout collections by consummate stylists
- Robert Selby Verisimilitudes of Absence. New study of Hardy’s ‘necromantic poetics’
- Kit Fan Flight Path Towards Consolation. Two books which offer complex navigations of personal and cultural grief
- Rowland Bagnall Art and Artifice. Two books explore the processes of making art
- Jinhao Xie Collective (un)Belonging. Two books which inhabit the liminal spaces of migration and postcoloniality
- Isabelle Baafi interviews Terrance Hayes Based on An Untrue Story