Issue 37: Spring 2017
Fiction
The Fox Beneath The Statue
Under the weight of the eggs the bird’s nest nestled between the deity's thumb and nail.
Poetry
Biologists
We only want to measure her, to mark her tail and touch
Essays
Grieving Forms
I have spent years reading narratives that talk about grief, telling myself that I was interested in them for purely scholarly reasons.
Is That Her?: When Alice Munro Stories Turn into Spanish Films
When Alice Munro received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, I was one of those in the literary community tapped to provide comment.
Duran Duran and the Utility of Fluff
A few years back I conceived and submitted a proposal to the 33 1/3 book series.
Interviews
“Not Belonging to One Place But Many”: An Interview with Mariela Griffor
When I was younger, poetry was vital to my existence, as it is now, but I was so immersed in that world that I could see everything through this frame.
“Why is it important?”: An Interview with Zoe Whittall
I used to feel more comfortable in first person, and sometimes I still do.
“Inescapable and Unknowable”: On Animals and Poetry
I just get interested in weird things and dig up everything I can.
Reviews
What Incarnation: A Review of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Reading Saunders in public is to laugh and cry in public, to subject yourself to the gaze of baffled strangers.
The Syntax of Eden: A Review of Silvija by Sandra Ridley
Sandra Ridley’s fourth collection of poetry, Silvija, adds to her already impressive body of writing.
The Meaning Was Mine(d) : A Review of Twoism by Ali Blythe and anybody by ari banias
Poets, at the very least, can usually count on their readers’ willingness to enter places of discomfiture and unfamiliarity, unheimlich realms of surreal leapings and gendered or otherwise politicized questionings.
