miCRo: “My Family and I Disagree about Politics” by Heather Lanier
Heather Lanier’s poem looks at family disagreements about politics through the lens of the body in a surgical theater, being cut into.
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miCRo: “Knowing” by Amy Chen
In Amy Chen’s essay “Knowing,” innocence and family secrets come together to create a profound change in the speaker and her understanding of her world.
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Inspiration Mapping
One way to make inspiration visible outside the poems written for a particular project is to visually map connections between sources–how does what you’re reading form an ecosystem?
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Writers’ Day Jobs: Steven D. Schroeder
The first in a new series of features on writers’ day jobs.
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miCRo: “On Injury” by Anni Liu
In this piece, as the text notches inward through the use of indentations, mimicking a scaffold, the boundary between inside and outside starts to break down…
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Microreview and Interview: Diamond Forde’s Mother Body
An interview with Diamond Forde about Mother Body, her debut collection of poems. From reviewer Marianne Chan: “These poems—with brilliant images and startling musicality—resist erasure and destruction…”
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miCRo: “Origins” by Kelly Fig Smith
“Origins” by Kelly Fig Smith weaves together issues of identity, history, and the body to form a complicated and compelling picture of family and motherhood.
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Best New Poets and Other Anthology News
Announcing our nominations for the Best New Poets anthology–and two pieces we published that will appear in Best of the Net and The Orison Anthology…
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miCRo: “Those Statues of Old” by Romeo Oriogun
“Those Statues of Old,” contextualized by the 1897 massacre and looting of Benin City by the British, is a simultaneously expansive and intimate meditation on the possibilities and impossibilities of poems to speak to the dead
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Interview with Playwright Beth Hyland
Drama Editor Brant Russell interviews Beth Hyland about genre considerations in her play All-One! The Dr. Bronner Play and about the future of theater.
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