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Through it all, I came to learn that literary magazines are more like ordinary families, and less like historical dynasties, than I’d previously imagined.
I now realize that growth cannot happen overnight, nor should it. It must be built with the goal of sustainability. As anyone in nonprofit work can tell you, burnout plagues...
We invited all contributors from the April “Exophony” issue to tell us the story--or a story--about learning the language that they’ve adopted for poetry (in 100 words or fewer).
In addition to many new poems and translations from Asiya Wadud, Aditi Machado, Renee Gladman, and more, the issue features the portfolio, “‘These Blazing Forms’: The Life and Work of...
By Whitney DeVos & Hugo García Manríquez
February 28, 2022
We can’t ignore our limitations, of course, but they shouldn’t be a reason not to translate in the first place. Perhaps one has to admit [...] that one never will...
By Sarah Ahmad & Giannina Braschi
February 9, 2022
What I am always puzzling over in her writing and thinking is how it declares questions with such aplomb, a poetics of salvage that doesn’t look for an elsewhere but...
I first became acquainted with the idea of poetry ancestors when I read a 2015 lecture by Joy Harjo. When she talked about ancestors of poems and poetry genealogies, I...
As soon as you think you get a hold of this cyborg’s story, she cuts the emerging (and comforting) integrative flow and disables your human-centric, and very normative, desires.
In that encounter, I learned that I was Appalachian, that my tongue had smuggled the mountains with me across the commonwealth. Startled by the sound of my own voice when...
There we all were, there in that drafty room, surrounded by the song and sanctuary of the words. Enveloped by bodies listening to each reader sing and spirit each other...
How do we—I’m talking to us, finally, Deaf poets—how do we find relevance in much of poetics, which denotatively pursues musicality and claims to puncture and perforate so-called silence?