Review by Kristina Marie Darling In much of contemporary poetry, landscape becomes a convenient vehicle for dramatizing the inner life of the speaker. And so the florid hills that surround us, with their clean lines and small enclosures, serve as a simple metonymy for complex emotional and intellectual discoveries. What’s more, these narratives are related to us from a distance,… Read more →
Review by Kristina Marie Darling Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in archival material among creative practitioners. Indeed, these excavations of our literary and cultural past range from rigorous scholarly engagement – as is the case with Janet Holmes’ unearthing of Dickinson’s activist poetics in THE MS OF MY KIN – to the deeply personal exploration of… Read more →
Jim Andrews on the Aleph Null too and his collaboration Adeena Karasick: The text in the video is from her new book of poetry–titled Checking In–forthcoming from Talonbooks in Vancouver. Maria Damon said this about Adeena Karasick’s book Checking In: “Aesthetically innovative and intellectually stimulating, Checking In is a restless and propulsive commentary and parody of our habitual and often… Read more →
Reviewed by Alex Lemon Happy New Year! Shout out to this American apocalypse we are living through, the warming season of hair-flavored candy canes beneath the couch cushions and most especially, the flu! Hey there sickness! “Any man can go without food for two days,” Baudelaire said, “but not without poetry,” and how true this quote is for the horror… Read more →
Read “How a Hand is Made” on Verse Daily This poem was born from the desire to write my own version of the creation myth—the need to re-imagine how a body is assembled as I was wrestling with a primal sense of guilt for tearing the idea of a body apart. My series on How Things Are Made was written a year… Read more →
